podcasty fun

[mmcirvin]

They Might Be Giants' podcast went to a more frequent schedule of shorter installments while I wasn't looking. That's probably the right way to do podcasts: keep the people wanting more, and give it to them a little more often.^*

They're only keeping the last few up there, so do be sure to grab episode 6A before it goes away, because that one's a corker: the new song "We Live In A Dump" followed by covers of Jonathan Richman's "I'm A Little Airplane", the "Free To Be You And Me" theme, and the old music-hall song "I Never Go To Work" may be one of the most perfect TMBG song sequences ever. And then there's a thumping dance remix of "E Eats Everything."

This is a warning: I am definitely going to inflict my personal rendition of "I Never Go To Work" on my child.


^*Jake's podcast being the ultimate in this regard.

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[jwgh]

This reminds me: I need to update my podcast. Hmm.

[jwgh]

... and now I have.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I clipped out "I Never Go To Work" using, for the first time as an editor, a freebie Windows app called audacity, which I do not like. As a result of my screwup, I actually sent around the song looped 3 times without a gap, and it turns out the end marries with the start just fine: the little trumpet charge it starts with makes a perfect ending and, heck, after your first listen you want to listen to it two more times anyway, so huzzah.

Also, 6B starts with a great Linnell ditty that requires one to consult a dictionary several times. It's a love song sung by a brain, except for where it switches to the perspective of the skull watching the brain.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that that song was the result of a challenge to use a given list of weird words in a song.