Episodes

  • Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 2: Traps for Troubadours

    Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, part 2: Traps for Troubadours
    Aug 19 2024
    For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the song “Sympathy for the Devil” and the career of the Rolling Stones. This episode takes us from April 1966 through to the release of “Let’s Spend the Night Together”/”Ruby Tuesday” Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode, on “Laurel Canyon Home” by John Mayall. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ (more…)
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  • Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, Part One: A Man of Wealth and Taste

    Song 176: “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones, Part One: A Man of Wealth and Taste
    Aug 1 2024
    For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a multi-episode look at the song “Sympathy for the Devil” and the career of the Rolling Stones. This episode takes us from the release of “Satisfaction” through to the release of “Paint it Black”. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a nineteen-minute bonus episode, on “Amen Brother” by the Winstons. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ (more…)
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  • PLEDGE WEEK: “Dark End of the Street” by James Carr

    PLEDGE WEEK: “Dark End of the Street” by James Carr
    Jul 13 2024
    This episode is part of Pledge Week 2024. From Tuesday through Saturday this week I’m posting some of my old Patreon bonuses to the main feed, as a taste of what Patreon backers get. If you enjoy them, why not subscribe for a dollar a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey ? (more…)
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  • PLEDGE WEEK: “I Love You” by People

    PLEDGE WEEK: “I Love You” by People
    Jul 12 2024
    This episode is part of Pledge Week 2024. From Tuesday through Saturday this week I’m posting some of my old Patreon bonuses to the main feed, as a taste of what Patreon backers get. If you enjoy them, why not subscribe for a dollar a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey ? (more…)
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  • PLEDGE WEEK: “Son of a Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield

    PLEDGE WEEK: “Son of a Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield
    Jul 11 2024
    This episode is part of Pledge Week 2024. From Tuesday through Saturday this week I’m posting some of my old Patreon bonuses to the main feed, as a taste of what Patreon backers get. If you enjoy them, why not subscribe for a dollar a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey ? (more…)
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  • PLEDGE WEEK: “My World Fell Down” by Sagittarius

    PLEDGE WEEK: “My World Fell Down” by Sagittarius
    Jul 10 2024
    This episode is part of Pledge Week 2024. From Tuesday through Saturday this week I’m posting some of my old Patreon bonuses to the main feed, as a taste of what Patreon backers get. If you enjoy them, why not subscribe for a dollar a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey ? (more…)
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  • PLEDGE WEEK: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum

    PLEDGE WEEK: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum
    Jul 9 2024
    This episode is part of Pledge Week 2024. From Tuesday through Saturday this week I’m posting some of my old Patreon bonuses to the main feed, as a taste of what Patreon backers get. If you enjoy them, why not subscribe for a dollar a month at patreon.com/andrewhickey ? (more…)
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  • ANNOUNCEMENT: Pledge Week 2024

    ANNOUNCEMENT: Pledge Week 2024
    Jul 8 2024
    An announcement of this year’s pledge week. To sign up to the Patreon, visit http://patreon.com/andrewhickey Transcript Welcome to Pledge Week 2024. For those who don’t know — perhaps you’ve only recently started listening to the podcast — this podcast is entirely funded by people backing me on Patreon, the crowdfunding site, and so occasionally I’ll do a pledge week, where I remind people about this and encourage people to sign up. The main benefit you get for signing up to the Patreon, other than the knowledge that you’re supporting an independent creator, is bonus episodes. There’s one of these with every main episode, and sometimes random other ones as well. They’re shorter episodes than the main episodes — I say at the end of each main episode that they’re ten minutes, and that’s how they started out, but often in more recent years they’ve been twenty-five minutes or more, sometimes as long as an hour,
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