Important In Your Life: A Jonathan Richman Fancast – Details, episodes & analysis

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Important In Your Life: A Jonathan Richman Fancast

Jonathan Mann + Carolyn Petit

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Frequency: 1 episode/11d. Total Eps: 3

Affection! Jonathan Mann and Carolyn Petit (and friends!) listen to and talk about every single Jonathan Richman song.

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Old World

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 • Duration 09:37

Old World is the young Jonathan Richman's ode to the people and things that came before: parents, 1950s apartment houses, and the whole traditional world they represent. At first listen, it might sound like a deeply conformist tune, but in our conversation, we argue that it's actually quite the opposite. There's almost something radical about a young person singing lines like "I still love parents" so openly, especially in the highly countercultural historical context of the moment Jonathan was living in. Old World can be seen as an act of cultural rebellion, one so deeply uncool that, as co-host Jonathan Mann puts it, it sees Richman "swing back around to being the coolest ever.”

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Roadrunner

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, April 6, 2020 • Duration 25:37

In this inaugural episode of Important In Your Life, your hosts Jonathan Mann and Carolyn Petit start the show with a showstopper! Yes, we begin our exploration of Jonathan Richman’s career with "Roadrunner," arguably his most legendary song, and one which was covered by Joan Jett, the Sex Pistols and many others.

Our conversation starts with a quick look at our personal introductions to Jonathan’s music, and some thoughts on why some people become such lifelong, devoted fans. We then discuss what makes "Roadrunner" a quintessential Jonathan tune, one that contains, even at that early stage, some of the qualities that would go on to define him as an artist. We also discuss his uneasy relationship with the possibility of mainstream success, how his love of the modern world has evolved, and the numerous versions of "Roadrunner" that Jonathan recorded and released.

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1977 B-side version

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