The Sounds in My Head

SPECIAL "ALL SWEDISH MUSIC" EPISODE! Season 23 Episode 6 Big Flood - Les Big Byrd A Perfect Storm - José González Pajarito - José González Hack i häl - Dina Ögon A Tuxedo Sewn for Two - Jens Lekman Darkest Shade of Dark - Annika Norlin Alien - Annika Norlin Creep - Azure Blue Where to Put the Pain - Alice Boman Legalize Living - The Hives A World Like No Other - YAST The Bluest Eyes in Texas - Nina Persson & Nathan Larson Better Off - Johanna Linnea Jakobsson This episode contains clips from an interview Jens Lekman and David Levithan did with Mallory Rochester from Barnes & Noble about their collaboration on Songs for Other People's Weddings, as well as an interview with Hives frontman Pelle Almqvist with tips on aging in rock and Sweden's trick to fostering musical talent.

Season 23 Episode 5 Springtime in New York - Jonathan Richman Summer Love - Fascinations Grand Chorus Static Heartbreaks - Fascinations Grand Chorus Chroma Eyes - Fascinations Grand Chorus Keep the Change - Mattiel Food for Thought - Mattiel These Days (Berlin Version) - Jim Jarmusch & Anika Spooky - Jim Jarmusch & Anika Dud - GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith Phosphene Scream - GUM Outside Brain - They Might Be Giants Slow - They Might Be Giants Friday - Freak Slug This episode contains a clip Sean Illing's The Gray Area podcast where his guest is Musa al-Gharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. It originally aired right after the 2024 election, but I missed it back then. It was re-released recently and I found the critique leveled by Musa to be spot on.

Season 23 Episode 4 Until the Sun Goes Down (feat. TOLEDO) - Monster Rally People Settle Down - Way Dynamic Miffed It - Way Dynamic Little Green Apples - Cleveland Francis Hey Jude - Cleveland Francis Wild World - Fine Food Market Sometimes - Fine Food Market Stunts - twen Godlike - twen Rachel's Song - Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore Temple of the Winds - Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore Strange (Dan The Automator Remix) - Foxwarren This episode contains a segment of The Onion News Network called Neighbors Always Knew Teen Gunman Was Evil And Did Nothing Because They Are Evil Too.

SPECIAL "ALL WOMEN" EPISODE! There She Goes - Hazel English Fast Lane - Genevva Crazy Horse - Genevva Instinct That I Wanna Know - Jade Imagine Back and Forth - Jade Imagine Principia - En Attendant Ana The Cut Off - En Attendant Ana The Drinking Song - Nellie Mckay Make a Wish - Nellie Mckay Le Temple Volant - Crumb & Melody's Echo Chamber Apathy - White Poppy Happy - White Poppy Til We Run Out of Air - Hatchie This episode features a clip of Julia Steinberg's testimony in front of Congress on November 9, where she talks about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses and its modern roots in the conflict theory of the oppressor vs. oppressed.

Season 20 Episode 10 Life Waits for Nothing - Phantom Youth Don't Fade Away - Beach Fossils Tough Love - Beach Fossils I Wish - Dayaway A Brief Dream of Sun - Dayaway Milanesa al Pan - Juan Wauters feat. Zoe Gotusso Modus Operandi - Juan Wauters feat. Frankie Cosmos Big Black Void - TV Girl All the Way Through - TV Girl Shame - TV Girl What the Echoes Say - Jeanines Tilt in Your Eye - Jeanines Riding Into the Sunset in a Busted Car - Free Cake for Every Creature In Your Car - Free Cake for Every Creature Trepanation Party - Voxtrot This episode features an edited-down "41 Lessons from My 41 Years" list presented by Nate B. Jones on TikTok. It was too long to include the whole thing, but I really don't disagree with any of his list. This kinda thing easily veers too far into trite, but there can be a lot of truth in well-composed bumper stickers, and I think Nate hits them all well.

Season 20 Episode 9 Good Friday - Ham Sandwich Newfound Oxygen - Steady Holiday The Balance - Steady Holiday Coma Culture - Coma Culture Bad Habits - Coma Culture Virtual Dancer - Group Rhoda Din För Evigt - Kanot Bottenmannen - Kanot Dee Dee - Nimrawd Quicksilver (single version) - Nimrawd Aquamarine - Hand Habits This episode features a clip of a CNN Town Hall where former NJ governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie recounts how Trump gave him COVID, which very nearly killed him, then lied about it, naturally.

Season 20 Episode 8 Hot Blue Summer - Dayaway Shooting Star - Sylvie Further Down the Road (Maston Remix) - Sylvie Waiting for the Band - Nicky Hopkins You Have Something Special - Joanna Sternberg This Is Not Who I Want To Be - Joanna Sternberg I Never Get Lonesome - Arthur Russell Iowa Dream - Arthur Russell Wan Ka Helaa - Dur-Dur Band Int. Riyo - Dur-Dur Band Int. Love Missive - Courrier Sud Fool Moon - Courrier Sud Trapdoor - Los Bitchos This episode features a clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris' podcast Making Sense, where he talks about the incomprehensible waste of collective attention the human race has wasted on about the least important human to ever be born. I didn't include much of it, when he gets into a media analysis and so on, but I'm 100% with him on all of it.

Season 20 Episode 7: Special "Music from Soundtracks" Episode!   Asteroid City 1. Last Train to San Fernando - Johnny Duncan 2. Freight Train - Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group Poker Face 3. Charlie's Theme - Pellea 4. Six Foot Down - Gene Ski 5. Blues Run the Game - Jackson C. Frank John Denver: Country Boy 6. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver The Worst Person in the World 7. Waters of March - Art Garfunkel One More Time 8. Yours to Keep (acoustic version) - Myie Rogue Agent 9. Just Like Heaven - Hannah Peel Cold Feet 10. Just Like Honey - Hannah Peel Fleishman is in Trouble 11. Wise Up - Aimee Mann Little America 12. Come On Home - The Lijadu Sisters Lord of War 13. Mama Africa - Young Bakuba Band Masters of Sex 14. You Don't Know Me - Lizzy Caplan   This episode features a clip from NPR's Fresh Air where film critic Justin Chang reviews Asteroid City, and also a brief clip where Taffy Nivert talks about the origin of Take Me Home, Country Roads from John Denver: Country Boy.

Season 20 Episode 4 - SPECIAL "MUSIC IN FRENCH!" EPISODE! Soulevant - Cléa Vincent Contact - Jarvis Cocker Le cannibale - Juniore Je me suis fait tout petit - Juniore B1 - Ce soir - Kumisolo Kabuki femme fatale - Kumisolo La Femme aux Faux Cils - We are Enfant Terrible La poudre aux yeux - Lisa LeBlanc Tite gêne - Lisa LeBlanc Apprenti - Dumas Fille Sauvage - Richard Anthony Bohemian Rhapsody - French - Freedom Fry Les idées roses - Louïse Papier Sur le pavé - Holden This episode features a clip from Jim Gaffigan's album Quality Time about eating French Cheese, as well as a very old Louis CK bit about being approached in NYC by a French guy who needs directions. Light, but relatively topical fare for this episode. heh.

Season 20 Episode 3 Organic Tea - Jacob King We, Us the Pharaohs - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard I Had It All - Maxwell Farrington & Le SuperHomard Always on the Telephone - The Ladybug Transistor Stranger - Tiny Microphone feat. Gary Olson Mine Forever - Lord Huron At Sea - Lord Huron Blameless - Zach Schimpf Mind Like a Sitting Duck - Zach Schimpf Time Bomb - Jacklen Ro Side by Side - Jacklen Ro More Than Chemical - Homephone This episode features a brief clip from FOX's The Family Guy which made me LOL, and a TikTok by @philjamesson about his incredibly successful social media empire.

Season 20 Episode 2 Apologizing - Celler Dwellers Or Else - Marina Allen Superreality - Marina Allen If You Love Her - Tokyo Tea Room Feel Your Heart - Tokyo Tea Room Poor Devil - Fruit Junior Saddle Up -Fruit Junior The Promise (feat. Jelani Aryeh) - Samia As You Are - Samia Edge of the Edge - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Everything's Been Leading To This - Panda Bear & Sonic Boom Sleeper Agent - Smaller Hearts Vento a Favor - Sessa This episode features a clip from the new podcast The Urbanist Agenda from Jason of the great Not Just Bikes. His co-host for the inaugural episode was Adam Something who shows off his pitch-perfect Slavoj Žižek impression as they talk about living in human-friendly cities.

Season 20 Episode 1 Rebels Without Applause - Morrissey Always on My Mind - Roller Derby Friday I'm in Love - Roller Derby Afterworld - Phantom Youth Dear October - Phantom Youth Places - Holy Now Silk - Holy Now Nerves - Freeds Fuzzy - Freeds If I Could Ride a Bike - Chevy & Park Bird Never My Love - The Association and The Courettes This episode features a clip from Marc Maron's latest HBO comedy special, From Bleak to Dark, where he outlines a strategy to win over Christians by rebranding abortion clinics as "angel factories". It may be a joke, but I think the plan could be just crazy enough to work. Mental note: From now on, always refer to Planned Parenthood and their ilk as angel factories.

SEASON 19 FINALE! Be True - RL Cherry Blossom - Rubblebucket Earth Worship - Rubblebucket Empty Head - Frankie Cosmos Aftershook - Frankie Cosmos Strangers - Dana Gavanski Sacatela - La Femme No pasa nada - La Femme Dyslexic Poetry - Petite League Pantone Karaoke - Petite League Belinda Says - Alvvays Very Online Guy - Alvvays San Francisco - Bonny Doon This episode features a clip from the podcast The War On Cars where guest, prominent sex columnist Dan Savage, talks about how terrible cars are, and how livable streets activists can win people over to our side. It was a fun interview, and while I've always enjoyed his media appearances, but prior to this interview I never knew he was a kindred spirit with regard to this topic.

SPECIAL "CHRISTMAS MUSIC 2022" EPISODE! Kemonomichi no Uta (alt ver.) - Shugo Tokumaru & John John Festival Ode to Just Like Christmas - Twitchels Just Like Christmas - Housewife When the River Meets the Sea - Daniel Zott Love to Keep Me Warm - Laufey & Dodie Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy He's the One - Ali Sperry and Kristin Weber Santa Claus - Brenda Lee Linus n' Lucy - Ginger Root Never Had Christmas - Rope Store Vegetarian Christmas - Feet Christmas Everyday - The Frights Christmas (All Over the World Tonight) - Freedom Fry Christmas in Clifton House - Evripidis and his Tragedies Xmas Break - April June This Year for Christmas - Sjowgren Christmas Time is Here - The Shacks This episode features a bulletin from Sveriges Radio's daily English language news podcast about how shop workers in Sweden's largest trade union think Christmas music poses a health and safety risk. MY APOLOGIES if this episode is triggering for any listeners.

Look Away, Look Away - The Go! Team feat. The Star Feminine Band Saturdays - Broken Bells We're Not In Orbit Yet… - Broken Bells Smash the Machine - The Babe Rainbow Mediterranean - The Babe Rainbow Fast Cars - Danz CM Love Is Perfect Kindness - Busman's Holiday Hey Margarita - Busman's Holiday Charlie - Sam Valdez Your Party - Crush EP Disintegration - The Vacant Lots Red Desert - The Vacant Lots It Won't Be Cinematic - Sleep Party People This episode features a clip from a terrific interview with Yuval Noah Harari on by Sean Illing on his Vox podcast The Grey Area. After Ezra Klein went to the NYT Vox slowly auditioned other people to fill the gap, renaming The Ezra Klein Show first to The Conversation with different hosts, of which Sean was by far and away the best, and they eventually gave him the feed and renamed it The Grey Area. I just never unsubscribed. Ezra is awesome, but I like the NYT incarnation of his show less than the old version, and I think The Grey Area is usually more interesting than EKS these days.

Stars Are Blind (Follow Me) - Chris Laufman & Wise Blood Sunshine Time - Coast Modern Electric Fence - Ruby Bedtime - Ruby Steal My Sunshine - The Goon Sax Sintaluta - The Garrys Bury Me With My Money - The Garrys Change - Kelley Stoltz My Wildest Dream - Kelley Stoltz Did You Give the World Some Love Today, Babe? - The PJ's This episode features an extended series of clips stitched together from a recent episode of Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where Sam talks to subject matter expert Timothy Snyder about Russia's war on Ukraine and he systematically knocks down bad take after bad take from the "do your own research" wing of the Twitterverse.

Hot Tub Time Machine - Freedom Fry Real Love - Down Time Just Because - Down Time Destiny - Jonathan Bree & Princess Chelsea You Are the Man - Jonathan Bree Love Is More - Princess Chelsea Forever Is a Charm - Princess Chelsea Part Time Punk - Cool Sounds Like That - Cool Sounds Goatmilk - GOAT Blow the Horns - GOAT Chow - Sun Era This episode features a clip from Coleman Hughes' podcast Conversations with Coleman where music critic and historian Ted Gioia talks about where musical innovation comes from and the pattern of things from the fringe becoming mainstream.

It's Probably Me - ViVii Ivory Coast - Pure Bathing Culture Nightswimming - Pure Bathing Culture After All - Jeanines Luminous - Seoul Magic Club Love all the Population - Gently Tender Home Anymore - Gently Tender Chain - Workhorse No Photographs - Workhorse County Lines - Whitney Terminal - Whitney Jesus was a Cross Maker - Cass Elliot This episode features a clip from Channel 4 News' report on the truck bombing of Russia's bridge connecting illegally annexed Crimea in Ukraine to the Russian mainland. The latest in a long series of colossal embarrassments for Putin. 

Not a Go - Foamboy Better - Foamboy Peach Smoothie - Foamboy Garth - Husbands Must Be a Cop - Husbands Night Nurse - Dean & Britta Easy Does It - Marlon Williams My Boy - Marlon Williams Up the Junction - Squeeze The Dance - Air Waves Black Metal - Air Waves feat. Frankie Cosmos and Merce Lemon Mind on Fire - The Mary Onettes This episode features a clip from The Michael Shermer Show where Michael talks to British satirist and commentator Andrew Doyle about the adoption by progressives of trans activist's world-view, and how folly and unprogressive he predicts history will judge that to be. Call me a "TERF", but I tend to agree, and I hope saying so doesn't mean I lose a bunch of friends. Also, I'm personally more concerned with the elimination of sex-separated spaces for women and girls, as well as social contagion among teenage girls leading to irreversible medical interventions for them, than I am about gay boys, but ya know, yeah them too.

Extra Mile - Alexandria The Sound of Music - Kiwi jr. Unspeakable Things - Kiwi jr. Hello Sunshine - Foreign Air Why Don't You Feel the Way I Do? - Foreign Air Je n'veux pas rester sage - Requin Chagrin Crush - Requin Chagrin feat. Anaïs Demoustier Highschool Steady - Eli Smart No Destination - Eli Smart All My Blood - Ham Sandwich Small Talk - Greta Morgan This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill predicts how the traditionally unifying event of an alien invasion would go down in present-day America.

Summer's End - Dayaway Don't Hang up on Me - Tchotchke Dizzy - Tchotchke Pixie Gf - Powerplant So Far Away - Down Time Marie Kondo - Breakup Haircut Why Can't I Be Cool Enough to Move to Berlin? - Breakup Haircut Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East - Cheekface The Tunnel - Cones Summer Is Gone - Kid Francescoli This episode features a clip from Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast where he explains why Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden. His description here mirrors much of my own take and was a big part of why I felt so compelled to escape from post-Trump America.

Somedays - VHS Sports Love Bus - Chinese American Bear Love Is - Chinese American Bear Whiskey & Water - Voxtrot Kindergarten - Voxtrot Wouldn't It Be Nice - She & Him Melt Away - She & Him True to Ourselves - Freedom Fry As Far Away as Possible - Shout Out Louds Sky and I (Heaven) - Shout Out Louds Our Trash - Evripidis and His Tragedies This episode features a clip from a recent Al Franken Podcast wherein he interviews journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe who explains why negotiating with Putin about Ukraine is ill-advised.

SPECIAL "CLASSIC EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE! Vertigogo (Opening Theme) - Combustible Edison Misirlou - Martin Denny Coronation - Martin Denny La Pampa Y La Puna - Martin Denny Poinciana - Arthur Lyman Anna - Arthur Lyman Quiet Village - Les Baxter Jungalero - Les Baxter Disappeared (2021 Mix) - Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi Miniskirt - Combustible Edison feat. Juan García Esquivel 20th Century - Combustible Edison Carnival of Souls - Combustible Edison This episode features a clip of Coleman Hughes from his podcast Conversations with Coleman where in his discussion with Jonathan Haidt he discusses the pros and cons of the social fragmentation allowed by the internet. Seems like most people I know focus only on the benefits or the downsides, but to me it seems worth observing both.

SPECIAL "NEW FRONTIERS IN EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE! The Key Club, 1976 - Kolumbo Manna - Ìxtahuele feat. Kadhja Bonet and Orange Crate Art Exotique Mecanique - L'exotighost Mai Tai Break - L'exotighost Quiet Village - The Manakooras Maple Leaf - The Hilo Hi-Flyers Mountain King - The Hilo Hi-Flyers Bora! - Mocky In Cucina - Vanishing Twin Dusty - Monster Rally La Carrera Gourmet - Louie Zong El Bosque - Louie Zong Mysterious Planet - The Natural Yogurt Band This episode features a clip from The Local's Sweden In Focus podcast where they interviewed Carlos Velasco from Honduras about what led him to a life in Sweden. The thing I've been most surprised by living in Sweden is how few of my fellow ex-pats came here not for work or love, but for the same kinds of reasons I did: that by the numbers it's among the best places in the world you can live. Carlos knows what's up!

SPECIAL "LET'S HEAR FROM THE LADIES" EPISODE! Out of My Way (I'm Not Getting on the Night Bus) - Breakup Haircut Creator - Ora the Molecule Die to Be a Butterfly - Ora the Molecule Who Put You Up To This? - Sunflower Bean Baby Don't Cry - Sunflower Bean Obvious to You - Le Pain Is That How You Want Me to Feel? - Le Pain Indigo Highway - Dana Gavanski Letting Go - Dana Gavanski Burning Castle - Renata Zeiguer Alone With Someone Else - Renata Zeiguer Eraser - Sea Lemon This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra is setting up the context for his interview with legal expert Dahlia Lithwick about just how extremist and anti-democratic the SCOTUS is at the moment. As well as a clip from NYT's The Daily where Sabrina Tavernise interviews abortion-rights lawyer Nancy Stearns about whether or not her stronger, pre-Roe legal case could have changed the course of history for women's rights.

Party - Sipper Freedom - Jenny Hval Classic Objects - Jenny Hval Sunday - Sea Lemon Fortune Teller - Sea Lemon House Show - VHS Sports Flowers - VHS Sports Everything Is Simple - Widowspeak Salt - Widowspeak Lights Out - Traffik Island Babylon Blues - Traffik Island Gothenburg English - Alyssa Gengos O Kanan Dume - Alyssa Gengos Aline - Jarvis Cocker This episode features a clip from Dan Olson's epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who've earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.