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SF0159 Songs For, Songs Against … and simply “Songs”
A multi-genre selection united by all containing the word “Song” in their title.
Ian Forth
Communications strategist, podcaster (www.sombrerofallout.com and www.vinylmaelstrom.com), novelist.
SF0158 Family Life
An episode featuring fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, half sisters, little sisters and the family tortoise.
SF0157 Steve Albini Tribute
A tribute to the legendary Steve Albini (RIP), featuring tracks from his bands Shellac and Big Black; and some of the myriad bands he audio-engineered.
SF0156 Pedal Steel Special
A celebration of alternative bands incorporating the pedal steel guitar into their sound.
SF0155 Female bass players
A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players – and also some you may not have heard of.
SF0154 Fame, Fame, Fatal Fame
When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is very much a double-edged sword.
SF0153 Tiring, Sleeping, Dreaming
You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and dreaming.
SF0152 The Enduring Legacy of The Kinks
Hundreds of groups have been influenced by The Kinks. Here’s a few of them plus some original tracks themselves.
SF0151 – Money: Too much or not enough
An episode about the perils of either striving after too much money or not having enough of it.
SF0150 – 150th Retrospective Episode
A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast’s 150th episode.
SF0149 Music about music
An episode about music itself – the songs, the singers, the radio, the ballroom, the dances.
SF0148 Those we lost in 2023
We lost some fine musicians in 2023. Here’s an episode paying tribute.