#Song Exploder

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (15-21 Jun 2025)

ngl lads (gn) i wish packing a flat you've lived in for 27 years was this easy. i am going thru it. 😤

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 🎧The Beast of Littleton Woods (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #12) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - more low-key adventures with Emily & Florence - the cozy mystery comfort read I really fucking needed this week

😊 War & Peace and the Redemption of Bucky Barnes (ThePirateStorm) - 51K, stucky modern no-powers AU - bucky's a writer, steve's a single dad with a teenage daughter, they have a meet ugly that quickly turns around - enjoyable read, I was quite chuffed I correctly identified the IRL book series that Bucky's is based on

😊 🎧Murder at the English Manor (A Miss Underhay Mystery #20) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt get roped in to investigating the disappearance (murder) of a maid from a local estate (whose folks are trying to facilitate a 'Dollar Duchess' marriage and would prefer no unpleasantness)

😊 Fall Into You (Dylan Morrison) - very enjoyable contemp queer romance with a really great meet-ugly, explored a lot about how messy and contradictory and complex people are and also about how fucked up family dynamics are. -

💖💖 +39K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Favorite Things (ann_anotherthing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 17K - more adventures of middle-aged men 😂🥰 I just fucking love this universe/these versions of them (most of it a reread due to a new chapter being added)

Fates (E_Greer) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 22K - a wibbly wobbly timey wimey trip - AN starts "buckle in we’re doing six alternate universes" with a super cool guide on how to read each section (I am making it sound way more complicated than it is! Also it's just a banger fic, so enjoyable. I love these two)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

WIRED | Tech Support - Film Historian Answers Old Hollywood Questions

Murderbot - s1, e6-7

Game Changer - s7, e6

Parlor Room - s1, e5

Um, Actually - s10, e11

D20: Neverafter - "The Trials of Baba Yaga" (s16, e18)

D20: Adventuring Party - "It Happened" (s11, e18)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 1)" (s16, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Orange Fairy in the Top Hat" (s11, e19)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 2)" (s16, e20)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Three Cheers for Jesse Harron" (s11, e20)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "The Path Out of Gath" (s26, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Meaty, Meaty Combat " (s21, e2)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "Secrets at the South Pole Station" (s26, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Wonder Awaits" (s21, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Materialists

Short Wave - Why Weed's Signature Scent Has Changed Over Time

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

Short History Of… - The Spanish Flu

Welcome to Night Vale - Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought

No One Saw It Coming - Where freestyle swimming really comes from

The Sam Sanders Show - Can Faith and Queerness Coexist? (ft. Jeff Hiller)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Life of Chuck

Code Switch - The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

⭐ Vibe Check - Everything Comes Back to Love featuring Danez Smith

Switched on Pop - "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

Decoder Ring - The Boston Cinematic Universe

Decoder Ring - Decoder Ring Plus | The Boston Accent Is Wicked Complicated

Wild Card - Kyle MacLachlan daydreams about the future

⭐ Song Exploder - Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees

Shedunnit - Book Club Fact File: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy

99% Invisible - The Red, the Black, and the Green

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Watch This: Pee-Wee As Himself

Short Wave - Why Emotions Run High For Sports Fans

⭐ Endless Thread - Pics or this episode didn't happen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy

Short Wave - What Makes South Korea's 'Super Divers' Special?

It's Been a Minute - Welcome to midlife, Millennials. Are you in crisis?

The Sporkful - The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of the Second Stain

Ologies - Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #44

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - AO Mailbag: Is It Normal to Share a Checked Bag With Your Boyfriend?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Music' playlist

[thoughtportal]

Tears for Fears is a duo formed in 1981 in Bath, England by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. They’ve sold over 30 million albums, starting with their first, The Hurting, which went to number one in the UK. But it was their second album, Songs from the Big Chair, that made them international stars. It came out in 1985, and had huge singles like “Shout” and “Head Over Heels.” But their biggest hit is “Everybody Wants to Rule The World.” It won Best Single at the BRIT Awards in 1986, and it’s been streamed over 2 billion times. So I talked to the two of them about how they, along with their producer Chris Hughes and keyboard player Ian Stanley, made a song that would help define the sound of the 80s.

[lowcountry-gothic]

Gracie Abrams, by Carlos Lerma, for Song Exploder podcast.

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[remi-wolf-music-enjoyer]

Song Exploder Podcast - Remi Wolf

Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made... I talked to Remi about how she and her collaborators wrote and produced the song “Soup.” How they used 80s gear to make 80s sounds, and how the idea of making a fun anthem quickly turned into something pretty vulnerable.

this episode was cute! lots of tidbits about where remi was in her romantic life.

[misterradio]

🍪🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜

my coogie

[dvdregionseven]

Oh my god Molly's demo for Archie, Marry Me is so cute I was tearing up listening to it in the tub. I want more Tweegaze love songs

[nonesuchrecords]

"Rhiannon Giddens is one of those people where I feel like they have to start inventing new awards, because she's already won all of them," Song Exploder host Hrishikesh Hirway says of his guest. On the latest episode, Giddens talks about "You Louisiana Man," breaking down the song from her new album, You're the One. You can hear what she had to say about it here.

[angstflavoured]

😁😁😁

[just-bee-lieve]

IT’S MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR—-

AND YOU BETTER NOT KILL THE GROOVE!!

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (4-10 May 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Head for Murder (Head Rock Harbor Mystery #1) (Chase Connor, author; Nick Trengrove, narrator) - queer cozy mystery complete with small town, book shop and an Abyssian named Rattlesnatches

🥰 Murder in the Rough (Head Rock Harbor Mystery #2) (Chase Connor, author; Nick Trengrove, narrator) - more queer cozy mystery shenanigans with Jackson (and Rattlesnatches)

😊 Settle Down (wearing_tearing, whatthehale) - 153K, Sterek, schmoopy but enjoyable old-school omegaverse mpreg fic [apparently I had already read this fic but I think it was when it was brand new, 10 years ago. so it felt new to me 😆]

😊 A Suitable Captive (The Suitable 'Verse #3) (R Cooper) - entertaining faux medieval fantasy romance

😍 Watching Our Stars Align (ClarkeStetler) - 68K, SuperBat - extremely entertaining! a superheroes dating app leads to a triple case of identity porn - delighted by the added layer with app aliases. Also some cute TimKon stuff in the background

💖💖 +78K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

you can hear it in the silence (AppleJuiz) - Leverage: Leverage OT3, 14K - "The thing about coding is that it’s all about languages. It’s learning new syntaxes and phrases and framings, it’s reshaping your brain to communicate in a new way, with something that feeds on logic and direct lines of thoughts… Hardison slowly becomes fluent in Parker and Eliot."

it's a hell of a universe series (storm_petrel) - Star Wars: Din/Luke, 20K - alt-meeting AU, fantastic character studies (pt 1 is Luke's POV, pt2 is Din's)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

White Collar - s2, e3, 13; s3, e1, 8

Ghosts (US) - s4, e20-21

Um, Actually - s10, e8

Game Changer - s7, e3

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s11, e3

D20: Neverafter - "Mirror, Mirror" (s16, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Mrs. Potts Will Not Be Appearing" (s11, e2)

The Roll of a Lifetime: How Dimension 20 Sold Out Madison Square Garden

Leverage: Redemption - s3, e6

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Answer Me This! - AMT403: Popcorn, Vertigo and Toby Carvery

⭐ The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bad Rap Week: Prowling for Coyotes in Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery

⭐ Strong Songs - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Jim Steinman and Bonnie Tyler

The Sporkful - How The Real José Cuervo Invented Modern Tequila

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Places We Gained After the Pandemic

Unexplainable - Who are you calling a Neanderthal?

It's Been a Minute - The MET Gala: the indisputable best & worst looks of the night

Vibe Check - Always Bet on Black featuring Chioma Nnadi

Today, Explained - The two dolls economy

⭐ Short Wave - What's The Environmental Cost Of AI?

Code Switch - 40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV

No One Saw It Coming - The Blunder that Broke the Berlin Wall

Ologies - Artificial Intelligence Ethicology (WILL A.I. CRASH OUT?) with Abeba Birhane

⭐ 99% Invisible - 😅⚖️

What Next - Yes, Shelves Will Be Empty

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Big Well

Switched on Pop - Eurovision feast: Poison Cake, Milkshake Man, and Espresso Macchiato (featuring Tommy Cash)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Club Ebony

Decoder Ring - Off-the-Wall Stories of Off-Label Use

What Next: TBD - Chatbots All The Way Down

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Fight Or Flight

⭐ Vibe Check - A Good Sermon featuring Senator Elizabeth Warren

⭐ This Week In Fandom History - BONUS! Trans Fans Have Always Been Here

What Next - Main Character Syndrome: Your Mom

Throughline - California's 'Bum Blockade'

Imaginary Worlds - Body Horror Gets Under My Skin

⭐ Song Exploder - Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - Nathan Lane

��� MUSIC 🎶

Soft Rock Ballads

Radio • Power ballads

Carly Rae Jepsen

The Struts

'00s Pop-Rock Hits

R&B Blueprints

The Monkees 50 [The Monkees] {2016}

Songs Of The Beatles [Sarah Vaughn] {1981}

Buckwheat Zydeco radio

[thoughtportal]

The first episode of Song Exploder, about The Postal Service song “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” came out 10 years ago, in January 2014. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the podcast, we’re doing what bands do, and putting out a deluxe, expanded edition of our very first release: this version features a new interview, new insights, and new pieces of the song and demo.

The Postal Service formed in 2001. Their debut album came out in 2003, and it was a game changer. Their combination of electronic music and indie rock not only sold over a million copies; their songs were everywhere on TV and in film, and influenced a generation of artists. Last year, they played sold-out concerts across the US in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the album, and there are more shows to come in 2024. A few weeks ago, I spoke to Ben Gibbard, and I combined that with my original interview from 2013 with Jimmy Tamborello. And here, together, the two of them tell the story of how they made their song “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.”

[isjasz]

[Day 361]

Ruler of my heart ruler of my heart ruler of my heart

Sorry I am. insane about them

Grian/Bleeding heart design once again by @gingermaple <3

[jinglebunns]

happy 3 yr anniversary to Kirby and the Forgor Land!! this game rewired my brain and cracked my life like a glowstick and i love it dearly

[ronanlynchbf]