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This week, we tackle the most amorphous of genres: Indie. What is Indie? What does it sound like? It is many things and while it tends to lean indie rock in this curated list, it isn’t just that. There is a voicemail...from a while ago. Oh, and go ahead and notice how wacky the sound of our voice is. Amy tried.

Music:

Excuse Me. - My Garden

Sled Ellis & Danke Shane - Homebody

Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down

Deathcab for Cutie - I Was a Kaleidoscope

Spellling - Blue (American Dream)

Sebadoh - Gimme Indie Rock

Ovens - I Can’t Hang

Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better

Close Lobsters - What Is There To Smile About

The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt

Pavement - Summer Babe

Freeloader - Not that Smart

Mitchell and Amy get themselves together and record an episode after some time spent with too much work. From cuffed jeans to how amazing sundresses are, this episode covers it all. Shockingly, there are no songs about comfy socks here, but surely there are songs about them. Also, Mitchell and Amy had no idea how tall the other one was, so there is a hefty bit of conversation astonished about each other’s height.

The Music:

The Cardboard Swords - Flannel

Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini

T Pain - Apple Bottom Jeans

Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped

Claud - Cuff your Jeans

NOFX - Jeff Wears Birkenstocks

The Promise Ring - Red and Blue Jeans

Portugal. The Man - Creep in a T-Shirt

Tiny Moving Parts - Sundress

The Equals - Michael and the Slipper Tree

Nelly ft Kyjuan, Ali, Murphy Lee - Air Force Ones

Summer Villains - Hoodie Weather 

This episode is all about that time we need for ourselves, you know, self-care. The world is still stressful and being kind to ourselves is definitely what is needed. Have a lazy day, take care of yourself, and have a home spa day.

Music:

Mac Miller - Self Care

Ben Harper - Walk Away

Sesame Street with Daveed Diggs - Rubber Duckie

Alex Lahey - I Haven’t Been Taking Care of Myself 

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

Bad Brains - Attitude

Le Tigre - Eau D’Bedroom Dancing

Sparks - Falling in Love With Myself Again

The Blue Sky Project - Pirates and Mermaids

The Everly Brothers - Mary Jane

New Radicals - You Get What You Give

Teen Idols - Midnight Picture Show

So, the theme is “long distance” but there are so many revelations in this show that it cannot even be embodied in a description. Mitchell doesn’t lose socks, for one. Like, Mitchell does NOT lose socks. That is the most amazing talent. Also, Cat Power is not just short for Catherine Power.

Music:

The Hang Ups - 50,000 Feet

The Byrds - Eight Miles High

The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

The Amazing Transparent Man - The Ocean is a F*** Of A Long Way to Swim

AJR - Adventure is Out There

Garth Brooks - Baton Rouge

Cat Power - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

The Wedding Present - A Million Miles

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Song From The Edge of the World

Pinback - AFK

Aesop Rock - Long Legged Larry

This episode is a revisit to a great theme from a couple of years ago: non-english centered music from wherever (no Klingon was submitted, sorry to say). A wide array of styles and influences from a few decades. A true international treat.

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Music:

Tatsuro Yamashita - Ride on Time

Frances Gall - Laisse tomber les filles

Einstürzende Neubauten - Stella Maris

Wednesday Campanella - Aladdin

Shirin David - Ice

Gwenno - Tir Ha Mor

The Mars Volta - L’Via L’Viaquez

Piper - Sunshine Kiz

Otokobe Beaver - Don’t Light My Fire

Tinariwen - Cler Achel

Boris - Ibitsu

The US just came out of an epic “snow everywhere” incident which affected Memphis (and these streets)! So, let’s stay topical and talk about ice, snow, winter, and like, did I mention ice? Oh, and icicles! Turns out, there is quite a bit of chilly themed songs out there and here are some just for ya’ll.

Music:

Animal Collective - Winter’s Love

The Glass - Tell Me It’s Snowing

Superchunk - Silverleaf and Snowy Tears

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

Trafton - Winter Blues

Let’s Go Sailing - Icicles

Husker Du - Ice Cold Ice

The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter

Hayden - Bass Song

Point Juncture, WA - The Siesta Movement

They Might Be Giants - Snowball in Hell

The Rosedales - Frozen Ghost

This week is all about the shows that haven’t quite been seen yet (and may or may not be able to be seen in the future). Many references to technical difficulties that happened beforehand. Mitchell and Amy also got an amazing email and it is legitimately worth listening to! (Yes, the last sentence did end in a preposition, which is fine.)

Music:

Women - Shaking Hand

Tom Waits - Make It Rain

Everything Everything - Violent Sun

Adventures - Dream Blue Haze

Lady Gaga - Million Reaons

Teenage Fanclub - Empty Space

Throwing Muses - Colder

Deerpeople - Impala Abdul

Run the Jewels (ft. Zach from Rage Against the Machine) - Close Your Eyes and Count to F***

Guided by Voices - We’ve Got Airplanes

Ride - Twisterella

Pity Sex - Honey Pot

Continuing the good vibes from last episode, Mitchell and Amy are covering songs found out in the wild. Amy just assumes all music is from Kroger and Mitchell illuminates how amazing the playlist at his retail establishment is.

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Music:

Wild Ones - Show Me Islands

Elohim - Half Love

The Flaming Lips = The W.A.N.D

Ximena Seriñana - Different

Tangerine Dream - The Dream is Always the Same

Motocaster - The Buddha

Jessica Lea Mayfield - Oblivious

RobenX - NERO

Tigers and Monkeys - The Ballad of the Smoking Gun

Cosmo Sheldrake - Come Along

Pastor TL Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Like a Ship

Max Frost - Good Morning

Sometimes, a good vibes show is what is needed and heck, every show may be a good vibes show because E&E is trying to smudge the room of 2020. It may take a couple more smudges, but we are making progress. Enjoy this heckin good feeling show and block out the haters.

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Music:

Andrew W. K. - Never Let Down

Kottonmouth Kings - Positive Vibes

Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple

Penguin Prison - Never Gets Old

Wolf Circus - Telephone Dreams

Sugar - Your Favorite Thing

Madvillain - Great Day

F***ed Up - Crusades

Rostam - Bike Dream

Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

Crosses - Prurient

The I.L.Y.’s - Wash My Hands Shorty

We’re all tired this year, so we are ending this year on an old fashioned grab bag where the Earbuddies can share the songs that are on their minds. Lots of poppy tunes and a couple from TikTok, everyone’s favorite short attention span theater platform. 

Music:

Midnight Sister - Blue Cigar

Royal & the Serpent - Overwhelmed

Twen - Make Hard

Donnie Benét - Konichiwa

AJJ - Body Terror Song

Tilly & the Wall - Heavy Mood

Morphine - The Night

Blackstarkids - Dirty Dancing

Isla Invisible - Pillow

FF- Collide

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

Daði Freyr - Think About Things

Look, this year is weird, and it is almost over. It has been hard and different than any year, so we might as well have a Christmas episode that represents the complicated feelings we are collectively having about this holiday season.

Music:

Lo Fi Geek - Jingle Bells LoFi Remix 

Gus Johnson - All I Want for Christmas (is a COVID vaccine) 

Sting - Gabriel’s Message 

King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas

Emily Senn - All I Want for Christmas (is a Vaccine)

Donny Hathaway - This Christmas

Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree on Fire

Fear - F*** Christmas

Sparks - Thank God It’s Not Christmas

Spinal Tap - Christmas With the Devil

Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien for Christmas

Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers - Give Me a Second Chance for Christmas

In a year where the world has been in various states of stand still, Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies bring what was actually good this year, the music! So many good albums have come out and some of it has flown completely under the radar or musicians that have taken a break have come out with some new stuff. Amy may have totally credited Kaylah with liking show tunes,which may or may not be true, but she for sure loves Genesis (even has a tattoo!)

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Music:

Sarah Mary Chadwick - Please Daddy

Bullion - We Had a Good Time 

Andy Shauf - Dust Kids 

Nothing - Famine Asylum

Kay the Aquanaut & Kitz Willman - Ancient Fish

Mint Mile - Amberline

Deftones - Ohms

Run the Jewels Ft. Greg Nice & DJ Premier - Ooh La La

Little Dragon - Another Love

Pendulum - Driver

Sweeping Promises - Hunger For A Way Out

Dan Deacon - Sat By A Tree

Hey, we needed a feel good about humanity episode, so we made a feel good about humanity episode. 

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Music:

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

The Replacements and Tom Waits - I Can Help

The Rembrandts - I’ll Be There For You

Old Crow Medicine Show - We’re All In This Together

Landromat - Humans

Songs: Ohia - Didn’t It Rain

Japandroids - Continuous Rain

Alanis Morissette - Empathy

The Weakerthans - Bigfoot

IDLES - Cry to Me

Bright Eyes - Bowl of Oranges

Mitchell brings his November social media project to the show this week with his Nu-Metal November theme. Turns out, Amy legit didn’t know she loves most of Nu-Metal that doesn’t have sad dolls on the front cover. Oh, yeah, and Cher has only two children (this will make sense after you listen to the show, so don’t tweet too quickly.)

Music:

Deftones - Nosebleed

Korn - Ball Tongue

Limp Bizkit - Boiler

Deadsy - Key of Gramercy Park

Linkin Park - One Step Closer

Reveille - What You Got

Mushroomhead - Sun Doesn’t Rise

Deftones - 7 Words

Primer 55 - Loose

Adema - Giving In

TRUSTcompany - Downfall

Ocean Grove - Junkies

This is an absolute lovefest of music that we learned about by making the show and listening to the show. Memories of shows past, like how Craig does have the best taste in music, and there is a beard parody song band, as well as a show theme idea come up. Also, towards the end, both Mitchell and Amy admit that they watch TikTok videos as a form of stress relief.

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Music:

Bloodywood ft. Raoul Kerr - Ari Ari

Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You

The Raveonettes - Christmas Song

Crocodiles - Groove is in the Heart/California Girls

The Marty Ray Project - I Can Grow a Beard

Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me

The Housemartins - Anxious

Emperor X - Allahu Akbar

Kitten - G#

Infinity Frequencies - Virtual Lust

Rozwell Kid - Michael Keaton

Young Statues - True Liberty

Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling & The Dharohar Project - Mehendi Rachi

Todrick Hall - Y. A. S.

Sugar - Your Favorite Thing

This week, month, year has been exhausting, and while this next week is even exhausting to think about in America, we are just going to focus on how ding dang tired we are and listen to music about how ding dang tired we are.

Music:

Tegan and Sara - Wake Up Exhausted

Townes Van Zandt - Rake

Edwin Starr - Twenty Five Miles

Sugar Candy Mountain - Tired

Otha - Tired and Sick

Eels - I Need Some Sleep

Neko Case - I Wish I Was the Moon

Tim Heidecker - Nothing

Jim’s Big Ego - The Ballad of Barry Allen

Ceremony - Sick

Bobby Bland - So Tired

Culture Abuse - Take It Out on Yourself

Aspirations, we all got aspirations! Be it the end of this year, holding someone’s hand, getting them dollahs, it is all covered here! Also, Amy wants to know the reason for Graham’s song is used to mess with Jeremy. Reach out!

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Music:

The Beach Boys - When I Grow Up

Scarlett Johansson - I Don’t Want To Grow Up

Garbage - When I Grow Up

Joanna Gruesome - Hey! I Wanna Be Yr Best Friend

I Don’t Know How But They Found Me - Clusterhug

The Clash - Death or Glory

The Peabodys - I Wanna Go Parking With You (But I Don’t Have a Car)

POE - Angry Johnny

The The - This is the Day

Dire Straits - Money or Nothing

Ben Folds Five - Kate

Bill Wurtz - When I Get Older

Coming off of last week’s anxiety-fest, it seems suiting to have the next theme be about being calm, chill, and generally relaxed. All the atmospheres of chill are here, from jazzy to lo-fi to psychedelic.

Music:

The Babe Rainbow - Morning Song

The Mercury Program - You Give Me Problems About My Business

Tom Doolie - Darjeeling

David Crosby - Laughing

Lusine - Just a Cloud

Yo La Tengo - Before We Run

Khruangbin - First Class

LTJ Bukem - Untitled 1995 Mix

Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel

Glasys - Aquatic Ambience (from Donkey Kong Country)

Mild High Club - Windowpane

The Album Leaf - The Outer Banks

If there is an unspoken theme of Earbuds and Earworms for the last near seven months, it is probably our low-key constant anxiety. This week, it gets spoken and discussed, and that catharsis is great to remind us that maybe we do need to relax our jaws and find our little escapes (like F*cked Up suggests).

Music:

Josef Salvat - Modern Anxiety

Ruiners - Anxiety 

Dead Soldiers - High Anxiety

F*cked Up - Black Albino Bones

Autre Ne Veut - Gonna Die

Surfbort - High Anxiety

The Housemartins - Anxiety

Faith No More - Separation Anxiety

The Shangri-Las - The Train from Kansas City

Defiance Ohio - Anxious and Worrying

Zig Zags - Voices of the Paranoid

Nothing - Vertigo Flowers

Surprisingly, “mundane tasks” has not been a theme before but oh, what a well! Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies delve deep into songs that cover washing clothes, checking the cell phone, flipping through TV channels, and any number of mundane things we even do. Amy found some slugs, so that is also a topic.

Music:

Tim McGraw - Watch the Wind Blow By

The Equals - Rub A Dub Dub

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardner

Healing Potpourri - Blanket of Calm

Working Men’s Club - Cook A Coffee

The Mountain Goats - Half Dead

Remember Sports - The Washing Machine

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Can’t Keep Checking My Phone

Body Type - Free to Air

Municipal Waste - Untitled Track

The Buzzcocks - Sitting Round at Home

Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin

Amy gets way too excited about birthdays and Mitchell goes along with the exuberance and the Earbuddies work with the theme like All-Stars! From Pop Rock to Comedy Metal, there is a birthday song for everyone here. 

Music:

Lesley Gore - It’s My Party

The Crests - Sixteen Candles

Stevie Wonder - Happy Birthday

The Vandals - Happy Birthday to Me

Captain Zoom - Happy Birthday Song - Amie

Moby - Sunday (The Day Before my Birthday)

Uriah Heep - The Magician’s Birthday

Chrome - Saint Jimmy’s Birthday

Atom and His Package - Happy Birthday Ralph

Starflyer 59 - Happy Birthday John

Dethklok - Birthday Dethday

Hiss Golden Messanger - Happy Birthday, Baby.

Amy gets very geeked multiple times about Griffin McElroy and Esperanza Spalding’s interview on Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me! and Mitchell drops some knowledge about secret super influencers that are living a quiet life in Memphis. Actually quite shocking that this show wasn’t made earlier, because Amy always tells people that a podcast is just talk radio that you can choose when to listen to.

Music:

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Radio, Radio

The Weeks - Hands on the Radio

Autograph - Turn Up the Radio

Eric Carmen - Make Me Lose Control

Griffin McElroy - Ambulance Jam

Esperanza Spalding - Radio Song

Regina Spektor - On the Radio

Teenage Fanclub - Radio

Soul Coughing - Screenwriter’s Blues

M.O.T.O - Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance to the Radio

Joy Division - Transmission

Sylvan Esso - Radio

This episode is a journey as Mitchell and Amy attempt to nail down if they have seen the same NSYNC concert at the pre-Bass Pro Pyramid. There is also discussion of specific synths, vampires, Lars von Trier (who is creepy), and Bjork. 

Music:

Hańba - Racyje

Wardruna - Dagr

The Young Gods - Fais La Mounette

Jel - Sweet Cream In It

Freak Heat Waves - Let It Go

Joy Electric - Burgundy Years

Explode into Colors - Coffins

CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace

Heilung - Krigsgaldr

Nervous Curtain - City of Hate

One Day as A Lion - Wild International

Dan Deacon - When I was Done Dying

This week is a more somber episode with Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies reflecting on the music that has impacted them while the musicians that created the work have passed. 

Music:

Justin Townes Earle - Louisiana 1927

Mac Miller - Good News

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Cave In - Trepanning

Lou Reed - Andy’s Chest

Power Trip - If Not Us Then Who

Lymbyc Systym - Truth Skull

Morphine - Souvenir

DJ Screw - Love TKO

Tommy Keene - On the Runway

Elliot Smith - No Name #1

Juice WRLD - Fast

Silver Jews - Random Rules

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

In an attempt to focus on some more obscure genres, Mitchell and Amy celebrate math rock. Mitchell shines with his innate understanding of what a time signature is and Amy looked up a Youtube video and a whole Reddit graph to help her choose a song. 

Also, Joe-Joe brought GDJYD’s Durian What What What (and Amy got nervous about speaking all the letters so she forgot to credit him for this amazing song).

Music:

The Fall of Troy - Counting Sheep

Torche - Triumph of Venus

Alternative Tentacles - Automated

Tera Melos - Melody 2

Fang Island - Daisy

Matron - Meet Again

GDJYD - Durian What What What

Hella! - 1-800-GHOST-DANCE

Marnie Stern - Absorb Those Numbers

The Locust - Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

Polyphia - 40oz

Nnamdi - Art School Crush 

 Yeah, sure, we could go for some meaningful lyrics that dig deep into our souls and pull the tears out. This week is not about THOSE lyrics, it is about the inscrutable, gibberish, what the heck lyrics.

Music

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol

Pavement - We Dance

Beck - The New Pollution

Vulpeck - 1612

Reggie Watts - Amazing Song

They Might Be Giants - Cowtown

Zappa and Beefheart - Tiger Roach

The Mars Volta - The Widow

Melvins - Hooch

Trace Mountains - Me & May

Elton John - Solar Prestige a Gammon

Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under

This week has NOTHING to do with the episode number (only Memphis will understand). Mitchell and Amy bond over their possible life of crime, which is not provable. Don’t come at them! Also, what is the statute of limitations of stealing your own art from your now defunct high school library? Asking for a friend. Also, the Earbuddies love themselves some criminals. It’s fine. Stop judging.

Music:

Angry Johnny and the Killbillies - High Noon in Killville

Amy LaVere - Killing Him

Neko Case - Make Your Bed

The World Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die - January 10th, 2014

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven

Jane’s Addiction - Been Caught Stealing

Kinky Friedman - The Ballad of Charles Whitman

Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.

Dead Kennedys - Stealing People’s Mail

Masked Intruder - Crime Spree

Legendary Shack Shakers - Blood on the Blue Grass

It’s all about the action and this week, super action jam packed with action songs and imperative songs (and one triple negative multiplier). Amy forgets how to actually speak and Mitchell drops all the Sweeney knowledge on us.

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Music:

Smash Mouth - Walkin’ on Sunshine

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads

They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Superheaven - Gushin’ Blood

Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me

Fountains of Wayne - Please Don’t Rock Me Tonight

Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push

Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me

The Esquires - Listen to Me

Chavez - Break Up Your Band

Black Tambourine - Throw Aggi Off the Bridge

Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time

Amy just wanted to shoehorn a specific song in so Mitchell had the illuminating idea to let everyone shoehorn their songs in! It is a cavalcade of genres that are absolutely amazing. Did you know India had nu-metal bands? Neither did we!

Music:

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Spoon - I Summon You

HEALTH - L. A. Looks

Remember Sports - Reality TV

Ben Ricketts - The Glow

Amyl and the Sniffers - Got You

Nnamdi - Flowers to my Demons

Hum - Waves

Bloodywood - Ari Ari

Zeus! Ft. Mike Patton - Human Fly

2 Minutes to Late Night - Dare to be Stupid

Young Guv - Patterns Prevail

When you’re the greatest and you’re a musician, you make music about being the greatest. This week is all about those narcissistic self-hype songs that get us all bopping. Somehow it managed not to be an entire episode on Run the Jewels.

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Music:

Mac Dre - Feelin’ Myself

The Detroit Cobras - Boss Lady

MC Hammer -  U Can’t Touch This

John Grant - GMF

Will. I. AM - I Am

Prince and the New Power Generation - My Name is Prince

Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry

Run the Jewels - Banana Clipper

Lou Rawls - You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine

Lou Reed - My Name is Mok

DJ Shadow - Walkie Talkie

Donny Benét - Mr. Experience

Turns out, Disney holds a special place in our hearts. Let’s just face it, Disney made the Millenials and Amy gets extremely excited about every song and Mitchell makes a case for the Fire Gang. 

Music:

Star Wars Theme (Kaylah asked and we delivered)

Hercules - I Wont Say I’m in Love

Moana - We Know the Way

Princess and the Frog - We Are Going to Take You There

Beauty and the Beast - Be Our Guest

The Little Mermaid - Les Poissons

Moana - You’re Welcome

Aladdin - A Whole New World

The Lion King - Be Prepared

Labyrinth - Chilly Down

The Goofy Movie - I-2-I

Mulan - I’ll Make a Man Out of You

This week is about songs that bring us joy, or songs about the things that bring us joy, or however you define this theme this week. Mitchell gets that bittersweet tune in before Amy refuses to introduce her song so people will listen to it. There is a horns section before folks start taking “fistfuls of psilocybin”.

Music:

Angel Du$t - Bang My Drum

REM - Life and How to Live It

Parry Gripp - Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito

Healing Potpourri - Think About Us

Chris Gaines - Unsigned Letter

Keith Mansfield - Funky Fanfare

They Might Be Giants - New York City

Black Kids - I’m Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You

Mikel - Lost Woods

Bad Cop/Bad Cop - Nightmare

Annihilation Time - Imaginary Window

The Beets - Shout Your Lungs Out

Mitchell is the foremost expert on the gratuity of saxophone in songs and this week is all about determining if the sax usage has been appropriate. It is a range from when the singing is superfluous to when the sax has just gotten out of hand completely. Also, must all sax players be shirtless while playing their saxophones.

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Music:

Men At Work - Who Could It Be Now

Tears for Fears - The Working Hour

The Duke Silver Trio - Memories of Now

Hall and Oates - Maneater

Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (TGIF)

Tim Capello - I Still Believe

Haircut 100 - Love Plus One

Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

George Michael - Careless Whisper

Tweak Bird - The Sun/Ahh Ahh

This summer is going to be a little different than previous summers. There is this, like, massive thing going on worldwide, and we really can’t hang with each other around pools, beaches, or grills. The theme this week is focusing on the songs that make us feel like summertime is happening. Grab that polka dot bikini (that you are wearing for the first time today), crack open a soda/beer/sparkle water, and enjoy the haziness.

Music:

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

Husker Du - Celebrated Summer

Dressy Bessy - California

Ringo Deathstarr - Boys in Heat

Airbag - A Day at the Beach (Part 1)

Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach

Wavves - King of Summer

Childish Gambino - Summertime Magic

Seaway - Lula at the Beach

The Barracudas - Summer Fun

Cherub - Doses and Mimosas

Best Coast - The Only Place

It has been a full two years (about) since the subject of musical collaborations has come up on Earbuds and Earworms. Mitchell sings Icona Pop’s I Love It. Amy confuses Slayer and Stryper (like any good Christian child would). Also, just forgive the fact that Lovage and lavage are two separate words, because Amy will screw it up anyway.

Music:

American Football ft. Hayley Williams - Uncomfortably Numb

Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith - Not In Love

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse ft. Julian Casablancas - Little Girl

ISIS & Aerogramme - Low Tide

Galantis & Dolly Parton ft. Mr. Probz - Faith

The F***ing Am - Doing Research for an Autobiography

Felt - Dirty Girl

Atlas Sound ft. Noah Lennox - Walkabout

Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford - Close My Eyes Forever

The Uncluded - Teleprompters

Lovage - Book of the Month

The Murder of Crows - Bird Song

This past two weeks have been a mirror of America’s past. Mitchell and Amy confront their white privilege and focus on songs that highlight the themes of hope, protest, and discontent in these current times. There is always something that we can do better within ourselves and within this culture. It just takes looking at ourselves honestly, recognizing the flaws, and working towards change, equality, and equity for everyone who lives here.

Links for support, education, and updates

Music

M.I.A. - Borders

Childish Gambino - This is America

Run the Jewels - Ju$t

Atibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who is this America?

Janelle Monae ft. Jidenna, Wondaland Records - Hell You Talmbout

Bob Mould - American Crisis

Parquet Courts - Violence

Dead Prez - Police State

Body Count - Civil War

Poison Idea - The Badge

Saul Williams - List of Demands

Havoc - Give Me Liberty...Or Give Me Death

Algiers - Dispossession

Sam Cooke - A Change is Gonna Come

Solomon Burke - None of Us are Free

This week is about reminiscing about the live shows in the before times. Remember live shows? Those were great. Mitchell got see a final show in a beloved venue not knowing it was the final show there. And yes, Amy does realize that she brought a cover song by Ben, but like, it is still like the best cover song. Halfway through recording, you can hear her brain actually break. The Earbuddies show off their magnificent tastes and love of communal listening.

Music:

Titus Andronicus - Escape from No Future

Space Tyger - Dopamine

Archers of Loaf - Audiowhore

Dan Deacon - Sat by a Tree

Ben Ricketts - Fell in Love at 22 (Starflyer 59 Cover)

All Them Witches - 1 x 1

Tacocat - The Joke of Life

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

Reigning Sound - I Walk By Your House

Wire - A Touching Display

Weedeater - Wizard Fight

Partner - Everybody Knows

This week is all about the perceived dangers of the world. The bad relationships, terrible ideas, and fireworks that can cause bodily harm. It gets pretty terrifying, but of course, Amy is terrified of everything. Mitchell also discovered the scariest Metallica song.

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Music:

The Used - A Box Full of Sharp Objects

My Chemical Romance - Gun.

Roxette - Dangerous 

Metallica - Trapped under the Ice (33 RPM)

Arcade Fire - Intervention

Seminars - Stabbed in the D

Xiu Xiu - Scissssssssors

Modest Mouse - Spitting Venom

Good Looking Friends - Survive

Ice T - Cop Story

Spoon - You Got Yr Cherry Bomb

Pony the Pirate - Dangerous

In this exceedingly vast theme (the cosmos), Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies, suggest just a couple of songs about the universe. There are aliens, there is romance, there are some sick beats, then there is Sun Ra. It gets pretty epic.

Music:

Foo Fighters - February Stars

Helium - Leon’s Space Song

Jack Bruce - Rope Ladder to Moon

They Might Be Giants - For Science

Yung Lean - Starz ft. Ariel Pink

Sun Ra - Space is the Place

The Dentists - Spaceman

Hum - Stars

Sonny and the Sunsets - Green Blood

Hällas - Star Rider

Circulatory System - Lovely Universe

Melody Sheep - A Glorious Dawn

This week is all about yucking your own yum music style. You know that total jam that you love, well, criticize that. And if you ever wanted to hear Amy’s version of a southern accent, you have indeed come to the correct episode.

Music:

Cher - Believe

Broken Note - Meltdown

Viagra Boys - Sports

Why? - Gemini (Birthday Song)

Hannah Diamond - Attachment

Descendents - Hope

Kids See Ghosts - Freeee (Ghost Town Pt. 2)

Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit They Vanished

Envy - Statement of Freedom

Animal Collective - Peacebone

Turnstile - Real Thing

Mates of State - Fluke

In this week’s episode of haunted audio, Mitchell and Amy annoy some spirits, talk about choosing the wrong candles, and other creepy spellcasting mishaps. Wizards, witches, portals, and pastels.

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Music:

Deja Vu - Witchy Woman 

Heart - Magic Man

Hocus Pocus - Come Little Children

Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard

Johanna Warren - Rose Potion

Puscifer - Indigo Children

Advance Base - Summon Satan

Them - She Put a Hex on You

Pagan Altar - The Black Mass

October Country - My Girlfriend is a Witch

Eternal Champion - Invoker

The Sword - Tres Brujas

This week, inspired by Earbuddy Jenny, he show is about those songs with that weird trivia behind them, like the song written by an NFL player, or the goth metal song that is really about a kitty cat. Amy shows that she only knows one vague thing about one song and Mitchell brings all the knowledge with the Earbuddies.

Music:

Taking Back Sunday - This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)

Slint - Tweez

Huey Lewis and The News - I Want a New Drug

Dan Reeder - The Weather is a Dead Man

Boston - The Launch

Bonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love Me

Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London

The Sleepy Jackson - God Lead Your Soul

Guided by Voices - My Kind of Soldier

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)

The Jesus Lizard - Mouth Breather

Charley Crockett - Jamestown Ferry

After a couple of internet conversations (read: arguments) with folks that have fallen too far into the internet, Mitchell and Amy tackle paranoia and conspiracies through song this week. The Earbuddies have had their fill too and bring all the songs that give that unease, followed, and conspiratorial feeling. Also, here is a quick Kurzgesagt video that gives a simple test to debunking conspiracy theories found online.

Music:

Insane Clown Posse - Miracles

Blink 182 - Aliens Exist

The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

They Might Be Giants - Cage and Aquarium

Adolescents - Flat Earth Stomp

Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Medieval Wall

Ray Stevens - Santa Claus is Watchin’ You

Hawkwind - Orgone Accumulator

Cage - I Never Knew You

NOFX - Pods and Gods

Frank Black - Men in Black

Misfits - Bullet

This week is pretty much the definition of Earbuds and Earworms. The songs that we got from friends and mark special moments in our lives and our friendships. Whether we are traveling cross-country to meet internet friends, building treehouses, trying to pull a sneaky and introduce new music, or just driving in cars, bonding over sharing music is what Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies do.

Music:

Funeral Suits - All Those Friendly People

Randy Newman - You’ve Got a Friend in Me

Everything Everything - Night of the Long Knives

BØRNS -10,000 Emerald Pools

Veruca Salt - Used to Know Her

Man Man - Haute Tropique

Todrick Hall - Y. A. S.

Arcade Fire - Wake Up

Cave In - Retina Sees Rewind

Metallica - My Friend of Misery

Chairlift - Bruises

Beabadoobee - Are You Sure

Look, the theme of the show isn’t Amy mispeaking over and over, but it happens, we have acknowledged it. Just tweet complaints at her manager, because it is absolutely shameful. The actual theme is covers, which hasn’t even been mentioned for two years...that’s pretty shameful as well. Anyhoo, Covers! Songs we love, but different!

Music:

Father John Misty - Bird on the Wire

Crowbar - Dreamweaver

Ashes to Ashes - Warpaint

1000 Homo DJs - Supernaut

Puddles Pity Party - Time

Elliot Smith - All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)

The Isley Brothers - Ohio Machine Gun

Blood for Blood - Runaway

Robert Plant - Monkey

The Cardigans - Ironman

Jawbox - Cornflake Girl

Fountains of Wayne - Today’s Teardrops

This week, a very tired Amy and self-isolating before it was cool Mitchell, recorded a show that finally acknowledges the current global pandemic. They had been pretty quiet about it, but like, umm, they had to record remotely from each other. The Earbuddies brought some absolute perfect gems. This week’s show picture is from Jamie Harmon’s Shelter in Place Project.

Music:

Future - Mask Off

Celine Dion - All By Myself

The Police - Don’t Stand So Close To Me

Hiss Golden Messenger - I Need a Teacher

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

Moby Grape - Going Nowhere

Baroness - Shock Me

The Caretaker - Camaraderie at Arm’s Length

Jens Lekman - You are the Light

Mudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain’t So Sweet No More

Haunt - Divide and Conquer

Ween - Gabrielle

Drafting off of last week’s theme of having an episode publish and not being edited properly, this week’s episode is about miscalculations, mistakes, and general oopsies. Let’s all just settle in and admit we all aren’t perfect and mistakes are just the human in us showing through with a playlist of whoopsi-doos.

Music:

Elina Born - Miss Calculation 

Chelsea Wolfe - Mistake in Parting  

Icona Pop - Next Mistake 

Jenny Owen Youngs - F*** Was I

James Figurine - Apologies

Tim Fite - Big Mistake

The Beths - Future Me Hates Me

Men At Work - It’s a Mistake

Metric - Calculation Theme

Tyrone Davis - Can I Change My Mind

Idlewild - Mistake Pageant

Bill Wurtz - Just Did A Bad Thing

This week, Mitchell and Amy collect songs about large bodies of water and Amy gets progressively more caffeinated as the show progresses. There is some really dumb levity in this one and cracking jokes is one of the ways to weather this week in the news.

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Music:

Christopher Cross - Sailing

TLC - Waterfalls

Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea

Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - My Home is the Sea

Ride - Cold Water People

Nick Drake - Riverman

As Cities Burn - Into the Sea

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation

Los Campesinos! - The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future

Rosey - Opportunist

Sons of Otis - Super Typhoon.

Transparent Man - The Ocean is a F*** of a Long Way to Swim

This past week, Mitchell has finally received his first pair of glasses and it is either to correct his astigmatism, or hide his superhero alter ego. As with any event in their lives, Mitchell and Amy make a theme of it and boy, oh boy, are there many many songs about vision, eyesight, eyeballs, and seeing. Enjoy your hearing sense while listening to songs about the seeing sense.

Music:

Ya La Tengo - Tears are in Your Eyes

Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes

Hall & Oates - Private Eyes

Subtle - Eyewash

Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall

Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye

Melvins - Goin’ Blind

Eisley - Telescope Eyes

Kavinsky - Protovision

Crystal Antlers - A Thousand Eyes

John Fred and His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)

Rozwell Kid - Magic Eye

In the early light of noon, Amy awoke from sleep to come up with a theme. The theme was “notable people” and that is what is on the plate this week! Mitchell, as always, has well thought out and researched commentary and Amy, for once, googled information on more than a single song. A flugelhorn is also buried in this episode as well, so listen closely.

Music:

Toni Calderisi - Mr. Robinson

Johnny Horton - Young Abe Lincoln (Make a Tall, Tall Man)

Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot

Ellis Paul - Rachel Carson

Country Joe McDonald and Jerry Garcia - Clara Barton

Amen Dunes - Miki Dora

Peter Gabriel - Biko

Dion - Abraham, Martin, and John

The Inbreds - Amelia Earhart

Leonard Cohen - Story of Isaac

Killer Mike - Reagan

They Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor