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Episodes
SF0159 Songs For, Songs Against … and simply “Songs”
A multi-genre selection united by all containing the word “Song” in their title.
- Discussing music by:
- The Cure
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- The Four Tops
- Fontaines DC
- Everyone Asked About You
- Horsegirl
- Blur
- The Scientist
- Israel Vibration
- Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
- James Yorkston and the Athletes
- Beach House
- The Sundays
SF0158 Family Life
An episode featuring fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, husbands, wives, grandmothers, half sisters, little sisters and the…
- Discussing music by:
- The Sonics
- The Organ
- Pip Blom
- Savages
- The Venopian Solitude
- Dry Cleaning
- Emma Kupa
- Nico
- Steven Adams and The French Drops
- T-Shirt Weather
- Julie Byrne
- Sufjan Stevens
- Rilo Kiley
SF0157 Steve Albini Tribute
A tribute to the legendary Steve Albini (RIP), featuring tracks from his bands Shellac and Big Black; and…
- Discussing music by:
- PJ Harvey
- McClusky
- Silkworm
- Electrelane
- Big Black
- The Breeders
- The Auteurs
- The Wedding Present
- Low
- Nirvana
- Pixies
- Shellac
- Cloud Nothings
- Nina Nastassia
- Palace Brothers
- Smog
SF0156 Pedal Steel Special
A celebration of alternative bands incorporating the pedal steel guitar into their sound.
- Discussing music by:
- North Americans
- Songs: Ohia
- Mazzy Star
- Pavement
- M J Lenderman
- Hot Rod Circuit
- Camera Obscura
- Faye Webster
- The Lemonheads
- Joy Again
- Wednesday
- Sparklehorse
- Kara Jackson
- Ducks Ltd
- Mogwai
- Japan
SF0155 Female bass players
A tribute episode to the iconic female bass players – and also some you may not have heard…
- Discussing music by:
- Sneaks
- Wombo
- Standard Fare
- Automatic
- Unrest
- Superchunk
- Bush Tetras
- ESG
- Cherry Glazerr
- Sunflower Bean
- Khruangbin
- Pixies
- Sonic Youth
- Talking Heads
SF0154 Fame, Fame, Fatal Fame
When will I be famous? Me, probably never, which is fine because, as these tracks show, it is…
- Discussing music by:
- Scott Walker
- Folly Group
- J Dilla
- Neil Young
- The Mountain Goats
- The Popguns
- Black Box Recorder
- Altered Images
- Hop Along
- The Reds, Pinks and Purples
- The Damned
- Suicide
- Prince
- John Cale
- Belle and Sebastian
SF0153 Tiring, Sleeping, Dreaming
You snooze, you lose, or so they say. Not on this episode though. Alternative tracks about sleeping and…
- Discussing music by:
- Wombo
- Alvvays
- Allo Darlin’
- Moreish Idols
- Spirit of the Beehive
- Massive Attack
- Luke de-Sciscio
- Madder Rose
- Sebadoh
- Beabadoobee
- The Magnetic Fields
- The Chills
- Fugazi
- Shana Cleveland
- Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
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…
- Discussing music by:
- The Kinks
- Wednesday
- The Fountains of Wayne
- Wire
- Yo La Tengo
- Buzzcocks
- Temples
- The Auteurs
- Blur
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.
- Discussing music by:
- Fugazi
- Yard Act
- Private Banking
- Sprints
- The Toads
- Gillian Welch
- King Tubby
- The Slits
- Las Kellies
- The Cool Greenhouse
- The Jam
- Blood
- Cabaret Voltaire
- Horace Andy
SF0150 – 150th Retrospective Episode
A cherry picking exercise from the archives on the occasion of the podcast’s 150th episode.
- Discussing music by:
- Camera Obscura
- The Fall
- Broken Social Scene
- Gang of Four
- Tiny Ruins
- Jonathan Coulton
- Dry Cleaning
- Half Man Half Biscuit
- Lee Scratch Perry
- Brian Eno
- The Associates
- Pavement
- The Strokes
- Horsegirl
- Television
- Standard Fare
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