🎧 Episode 99 – Toto Double-Feature, Utopia Origins & a Story Song Gem

It’s Episode 99, and somehow Curtis and Jonathan accidentally synced their wavelengths… because this week is a full-on Toto takeover. Curtis kicks things off with what he calls the perfect Toto track—yes, for Episode 99—while Jonathan unknowingly brings a minor hit from Toto’s Isolation album. Pure podcast symmetry.In the category songs, Curtis digs up the original version of a Utopia track—the one that later became famous through a more mainstream cover—while Jonathan closes things out with an unexpecterd, narrative-rich story song by Buffy Sainte-Marie.Expect deep-cut trivia, arrangement talk, production nerdiness, and your weekly dose of “Why has no one else heard this before?”Featuring:Toto (x2, entirely by accident)Utopia – original version before the hit coverBuffy Sainte-Marie – story song excellenceA perfect episode for fans of deep-cut discoveries, yacht-rock adjacent gems, 70s/80s studio magic, and music-nerd rabbit holes.Curtis Gross is a self-employed video editor.Jonathan Workman is an adult learning consultant based in Wichita, KS.---Make sure you are subscribed to Why Is This So Hard For You. Type Why Is This So Hard For You in your podcast provider, hit that subscription button, and leave us a five-star review. This will make it easier for other podcast listeners to find the podcast.---The intro music is the first 30 seconds of the Ornette Coleman tune "Song X" fed into AI software that attempts to output the song to a solo piano transcription. The outro music is the first 30 seconds of Sonny Rollins' version of the tune "St. Thomas" fed into the same software.