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Dave Brubeck! Better-known musicians like Muggsy Spanier! Peanuts! Shortenin’ Bread! Brian Wilson! Small hands! Draft dodgers! Charlie Christian! Benny Goodman! Roll ‘em Pete! The Ink Spots! Bill Dogget! Booker T and the MGs! Elvis! The Kingsmen! Gossamer Wump! Taylor’s Version!
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Racial slurs! Tolkien! West Coast jazz! Dancing pigs! Lawsuits! So many lawsuits! It can only be the story of Creedence Clearwater Revival and "Proud Mary".
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
This episode, we look at the song “Proud Mary” and the brief but productive career of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, a…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Dave Brubeck! Better-known musicians like Muggsy Spanier! Peanuts! Shortenin’ Bread! Brian Wilson! Small hands! Draft dodgers! Charlie Christian! Benny Goodman! Roll ‘em Pete! The Ink Spots! Bill Dogget! Booker T and the MGs! Elvis! The Kingsmen! Gossamer Wump! Taylor’s Version!
Hudie Ledbetter! The Beatles! Bob Dylan! Frank Zappa! A jazz flute solo! Michael Nesmith! Legendary accordion player Flaco Jiménez! Jerry Garcia! The Grateful Dead! Willie Nelson! Los Lobos! Non-Euclidean mathematics!
The latest 500 Songs backer-only bonus episode is now up. This one is on "Mendocino" by The Sir Douglas Quintet, and the career of Doug Sahm.
500 Songs Bonus: "Mendocino" by The Sir Douglas Quintet | Andrew Hickey
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October 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Hudie Ledbetter! The Beatles! Bob Dylan! Frank Zappa! A jazz flute solo! Michael Nesmith! Legendary accordion player Flaco Jiménez! Jerry Garcia! The Grateful Dead! Willie Nelson! Los Lobos! Non-Euclidean mathematics!
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rod Stewart!
You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage
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October 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
@andrewhickey.500songs.com Rod Stewart!
Beethoven! Mozart! Rod Stewart! The Mafia! Bogart’s Casablanca Records! Charo the Cuchi Cuchi Girl! The Electric Pigeons! Ricky T and the Satans Three! Neville Chamberlain! Nuremberg!
A new paid-backer-only episode of 500 Songs is out. Jeff Beck! Rod Stewart! Led Zeppelin! "Dazed and Confused"! It can only be the story of Vanilla Fudge and "You Keep Me Hangin' On"!
500 Songs Bonus: "You Keep Me Hanging On" by Vanilla Fudge | Andrew Hickey
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October 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beethoven! Mozart! Rod Stewart! The Mafia! Bogart’s Casablanca Records! Charo the Cuchi Cuchi Girl! The Electric Pigeons! Ricky T and the Satans Three! Neville Chamberlain! Nuremberg!
Rod Stewart! Benny Hill! No-hit wonders The Senators! Slade! More Rod Stewart! Joan Baez! Carmine Appice! Willie Dixon! Jake Holmes! Tabla player Viram Jasani! Bert Jansch! Booker T and the MGs! Otis Redding! Steve Cropper! Muddy Waters! Dusty Springfield! Hobbits!
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This one looks at the formation of Led Zeppelin, and looks in detail at the inspirations behind the songs on their first album.
Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part Two — “Inspiration is What You Are to Me”
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 two-episode look at the song “Dazed a…
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September 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Rod Stewart! Benny Hill! No-hit wonders The Senators! Slade! More Rod Stewart! Joan Baez! Carmine Appice! Willie Dixon! Jake Holmes! Tabla player Viram Jasani! Bert Jansch! Booker T and the MGs! Otis Redding! Steve Cropper! Muddy Waters! Dusty Springfield! Hobbits!
Wardrobe malfunctions! Joe Bloggs! Jett Powers! The Australian top ten! Bix Biederbecke! Engelbert Humperdinck! Caligula! Dorian Gray! A Lear Jet and multiple Rolls Royces! Dutch progressive rock band Focus! David Niven! Madonna! I will, for what I hope are obvious reasons, not be excerpting this.
The latest 500 Songs Backer-Only bonus episode is now up! The Who! Elvis! The Beatles! Shakin' Stevens! The Teletubbies! Mary Whitehouse! The Greater Manchester Police Obscene Publications Squad! It's the "career" of P.J. Proby
500 Songs Bonus: "Jim's Blues" by P.J. Proby | Andrew Hickey
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September 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Wardrobe malfunctions! Joe Bloggs! Jett Powers! The Australian top ten! Bix Biederbecke! Engelbert Humperdinck! Caligula! Dorian Gray! A Lear Jet and multiple Rolls Royces! Dutch progressive rock band Focus! David Niven! Madonna! I will, for what I hope are obvious reasons, not be excerpting this.
Several Yardbirds anecdotes, some of which may even be true! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The most tasteless folk group ever! Emergency pool construction! Jackie DeShannon’s wild rock and roll lifestyle! Multiple Rod Stewart cameos!
And the latest main episode of the podcast is now up! Lulu! The Shadows! Jackie DeShannon! Frankie Valli! Frank Sinatra! The Gillette advert! It can only be part one of the story of "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin (in which Led Zeppelin themselves do not appear).
Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part One, The Song Remains the Same
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 two-episode look at the song “Dazed …
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September 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Several Yardbirds anecdotes, some of which may even be true! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The most tasteless folk group ever! Emergency pool construction! Jackie DeShannon’s wild rock and roll lifestyle! Multiple Rod Stewart cameos!
Gadzooks! It’s the In Crowd!! Gonks Go Beat! Cucumber Castle! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The Cherry Picker, bad even by the standards of 1970s British sex comedies! Take That! Ronan Keating!
Paid backers now have a half-hour bonus episode on Lulu, "Boom-Bang-a-Bang", and how cultural omnipresence in light entertainment can lead to people not realising how much some stars have achieved.
500 Songs Bonus: "Boom-Bang-a-Bang" by Lulu | Andrew Hickey
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September 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Gadzooks! It’s the In Crowd!! Gonks Go Beat! Cucumber Castle! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The Cherry Picker, bad even by the standards of 1970s British sex comedies! Take That! Ronan Keating!
N: Edinburgh, UK
E: Nadi, Fiji
S: Weddell Sea, Antarctica
W: San Francisco, USA
Makes for a confusing acrostic
E: Nadi, Fiji
S: Weddell Sea, Antarctica
W: San Francisco, USA
Makes for a confusing acrostic
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Reading
E: Reading
S: Reading
W: Reading
N: Reading
E: Reading
S: Reading
W: Reading
Furthest I’ve been:
N: Utqiagvik/Barrow, Alaska
E: Bucharest, Romania
S: Ushuaia, Argentina
W: Honolulu, Hawaii
N: Utqiagvik/Barrow, Alaska
E: Bucharest, Romania
S: Ushuaia, Argentina
W: Honolulu, Hawaii
August 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
N: Edinburgh, UK
E: Nadi, Fiji
S: Weddell Sea, Antarctica
W: San Francisco, USA
Makes for a confusing acrostic
E: Nadi, Fiji
S: Weddell Sea, Antarctica
W: San Francisco, USA
Makes for a confusing acrostic
Morton Feldman! Marty Feldman! Milton Friedman! Miloš Forman! Michel Foucault! Melvin Franklin! Millard Fillmore! Flanking! 4Q! Sherbet! Frolicking! Flinging! Martin Freeman! Michael Fabricant! Michael Flatley! Mia Farrow! Michael Fallon! Max Fleischer! Mariella Frostrup! Matt Fraction!
And for non-Patreon-backers, the "keeping my clean rating" version of the MC5 episode is now available for everyone. It's time to Kick Out the Jams, Mariella Frostrup!
Song 179: “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5 (Public Clean Version)
This episode, we look at the song “Kick Out the Jams” by the MC5, and the brief career of the most revolutionary guitar band of the sixties. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to …
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August 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Morton Feldman! Marty Feldman! Milton Friedman! Miloš Forman! Michel Foucault! Melvin Franklin! Millard Fillmore! Flanking! 4Q! Sherbet! Frolicking! Flinging! Martin Freeman! Michael Fabricant! Michael Flatley! Mia Farrow! Michael Fallon! Max Fleischer! Mariella Frostrup! Matt Fraction!
Far-out jazz! Milton Friedman! Billy Connolly! Morgan Freeman! e=mc^2! Michael Fish! neo-beatnik self-determination! Maria Félix! Sun Ra! Mister Fantastic! Robert F Kennedy! (non-derogatory) Man Friday! Pigasus! Missy Franklin! The White Album! Mod Ftewart! David Peel! Magnificent Frigatebird!
The episode of the podcast on "Kick Out the Jams" will be going live on the main feed in a couple of days, but for those of you who want an unexpurgated version, it's on Patreon now.
The rest of you can wait a couple of days to kick out the jams, Michael Flatley
The rest of you can wait a couple of days to kick out the jams, Michael Flatley
Song 179: "Kick Out the Jams" by the MC5 (EXPLICIT Patreon-Only Version) | Andrew Hickey
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July 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Far-out jazz! Milton Friedman! Billy Connolly! Morgan Freeman! e=mc^2! Michael Fish! neo-beatnik self-determination! Maria Félix! Sun Ra! Mister Fantastic! Robert F Kennedy! (non-derogatory) Man Friday! Pigasus! Missy Franklin! The White Album! Mod Ftewart! David Peel! Magnificent Frigatebird!
WHITE AMERICAN BOOMER: What the $&@# is this? English folk music? This no more belongs in THE History of Rock Music than … I don’t know, Britney Spears!
RICHARD THOMPSON: Hold my … hang on, hold those beers of Pegg, Bonham and Joplin
[MEDIEVAL STRUMMING INTENSIFIES]
RICHARD THOMPSON: Hold my … hang on, hold those beers of Pegg, Bonham and Joplin
[MEDIEVAL STRUMMING INTENSIFIES]
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Barry McKenzie! Charlie Drake! Don Estelle! A naked John Bonham! "Oops! I Did It Again"! Manfred Mann! Questions about Muslim theology! It can only be part two of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" by Fairport Convention!
Song 178: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part Two: “I Have no Thought of Time”
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 two-episode look at the song “Who Kn…
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June 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
WHITE AMERICAN BOOMER: What the $&@# is this? English folk music? This no more belongs in THE History of Rock Music than … I don’t know, Britney Spears!
RICHARD THOMPSON: Hold my … hang on, hold those beers of Pegg, Bonham and Joplin
[MEDIEVAL STRUMMING INTENSIFIES]
RICHARD THOMPSON: Hold my … hang on, hold those beers of Pegg, Bonham and Joplin
[MEDIEVAL STRUMMING INTENSIFIES]
Denis Daugherty! No relation to Denny Doherty! Emory Gordy! No relation to Berry Gordy! Classics IV! No relation to The Classics! Mamas & Papas/Soul Train! No relation to The Mamas & the Papas or Soul Train! Apparently this is the 32nd most played song of the C20th, which is spooky! But not Spooky!
The latest backer-only bonus episode of 500 Songs is now up! Roy Orbison! Bobby Goldsboro! Tommy Roe! Joe South! It could be half a dozen recent bonus episodes, but in this case it's on the thirty-second most popular song of the twentieth century. Which is, somehow, "Traces" by the Classics IV.
500 Songs Bonus: "Traces" by the Classics IV | Andrew Hickey
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June 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Denis Daugherty! No relation to Denny Doherty! Emory Gordy! No relation to Berry Gordy! Classics IV! No relation to The Classics! Mamas & Papas/Soul Train! No relation to The Mamas & the Papas or Soul Train! Apparently this is the 32nd most played song of the C20th, which is spooky! But not Spooky!
Lingo the Drifter! Max Margulis! John Sebastian! Leonard Cohen! Gordon Lightfoot! Stephen Stills! Linda Ronstadt! Chelsea Clinton! Yippies! Humpback whales! The Pipes And Drums And Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards! A seven-minute song about the life and death of Che Guevara!
The latest 500 Songs backer-only bonus is now up! This is one of the longer ones, and it's also on "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" but Judy Collins' version. It also features brain research funded by Groucho Marx, Bill Clinton, a top twenty hit from an encounter group, and demeaning the bagpipes.
500 Songs Bonus: "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" by Judy Collins | Andrew Hickey
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May 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Lingo the Drifter! Max Margulis! John Sebastian! Leonard Cohen! Gordon Lightfoot! Stephen Stills! Linda Ronstadt! Chelsea Clinton! Yippies! Humpback whales! The Pipes And Drums And Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards! A seven-minute song about the life and death of Che Guevara!
Elvis impersonator sound-alikes! Damn, already done. ‘Dizzy’ is a banger of a track and I only knew the Vic Reeves version. Political correctness gone mad! If you’re not subscribing to this Patreon by now I really can’t help you.
The latest backer-only 500 Songs bonus episode is now up on Patreon!
Elvis impersonators! Elvis' producer! Elvis' other producer's brother! Curt Boettcher! The Beatles! Joe South! Mealy-mouthed defences of segregation! Vic Reeves! It can only be the career of Tommy Roe, and "Dizzy".
Elvis impersonators! Elvis' producer! Elvis' other producer's brother! Curt Boettcher! The Beatles! Joe South! Mealy-mouthed defences of segregation! Vic Reeves! It can only be the career of Tommy Roe, and "Dizzy".
500 Songs Short Bonus: "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe | Andrew Hickey
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May 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Elvis impersonator sound-alikes! Damn, already done. ‘Dizzy’ is a banger of a track and I only knew the Vic Reeves version. Political correctness gone mad! If you’re not subscribing to this Patreon by now I really can’t help you.
Short’nin Bread! Fiddlin’ John Carson! Lightnin’ Hopkins! Howlin’ Wolf! The Lovin’ Spoonful! The Electric Dysentry! Dylan goes electric! The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles, and Fripp! Scottish accordion player Jimmy Shand! Lineup changes!
And the new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Michael Nesmith! The Massed Alberts! The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club! Jimmy Shand! Mungo Jerry! It is of course part one of the story of "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" by Fairport Convention.
Song 178: “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part One, Going Electric
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 two-episode look at the song “Who Kno…
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May 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Short’nin Bread! Fiddlin’ John Carson! Lightnin’ Hopkins! Howlin’ Wolf! The Lovin’ Spoonful! The Electric Dysentry! Dylan goes electric! The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles, and Fripp! Scottish accordion player Jimmy Shand! Lineup changes!
Just as finding the piece by harmonica player John Sebastian called ‘John Sebastian plays Bach’ is tricky, web-searching for ‘Smith’ may be a challenge … here also we find P.F. Sloan, Joy of Cooking, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, and the all-female band Fanny
This week's 500 Songs backer bonus is now up (and the main episode will be up shortly). This one is on the one-hit wonders Smith, their one hit "Baby It's You", and features many, many, *many* familiar names.
500 Songs Bonus: "Baby, It's You" by Smith | Andrew Hickey
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May 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just as finding the piece by harmonica player John Sebastian called ‘John Sebastian plays Bach’ is tricky, web-searching for ‘Smith’ may be a challenge … here also we find P.F. Sloan, Joy of Cooking, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, and the all-female band Fanny
Bananarama! Liberace! Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)! Six men who would mostly probably not meet contemporary unfair standards for male physical attractiveness! The Minnesota Twins! Here’s hoping!
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Latest of my short backer-only bonuses is now up. This one is on "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, and sadly contains some mention right at the very end of the current horrific US political situation, because literally nothing can be left uncontaminated :-/
Latest of my short backer-only bonuses is now up. This one is on "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam, and sadly contains some mention right at the very end of the current horrific US political situation, because literally nothing can be left uncontaminated :-/
Short Patreon Bonus: "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by Steam | Andrew Hickey
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May 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Bananarama! Liberace! Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)! Six men who would mostly probably not meet contemporary unfair standards for male physical attractiveness! The Minnesota Twins! Here’s hoping!
The sequel to Shaft! A Grammy Song of the Year award ahead of (checks notes) Hey Jude and Mrs Robinson!
Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Album!
Dr Seuss! If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake!
Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Album!
Dr Seuss! If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake!
I've talked about how I'm planning to do a load of more regular, shorter, Patreon bonus episodes as well as the monsters I've been doing recently, and here's the first of those.
Samuel Browne! Count Basie! Frank Sinatra! Joni Mitchell! Shaft! Pantheism! It's on "Little Green Apples" by O.C. Smith.
Samuel Browne! Count Basie! Frank Sinatra! Joni Mitchell! Shaft! Pantheism! It's on "Little Green Apples" by O.C. Smith.
Patreon Short Bonus: "Little Green Apples" by O.C. Smith | Andrew Hickey
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April 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The sequel to Shaft! A Grammy Song of the Year award ahead of (checks notes) Hey Jude and Mrs Robinson!
Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Album!
Dr Seuss! If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake!
Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Album!
Dr Seuss! If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake!
[theme music plays]
“Patreon bonus episode number 396, ‘Rockin’ the Man in the Boat’, by Mike Love”
[9 and a half minutes of content warnings]
“This is the worst song that has ever been recorded. I will not be playing an excerpt. Thank you very much for listening “
[theme music plays]
“Patreon bonus episode number 396, ‘Rockin’ the Man in the Boat’, by Mike Love”
[9 and a half minutes of content warnings]
“This is the worst song that has ever been recorded. I will not be playing an excerpt. Thank you very much for listening “
[theme music plays]
"Rockin' the Man in the Boat" by Mike Love is, objectively, the worst song in the world.
Second-worst is "Universal Coward" by Jan and Dean.
Second-worst is "Universal Coward" by Jan and Dean.
Fuck your favourite song. Tell me your least favourite song. The one that makes you die inside the moment you hear the first 3 seconds.
March 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
[theme music plays]
“Patreon bonus episode number 396, ‘Rockin’ the Man in the Boat’, by Mike Love”
[9 and a half minutes of content warnings]
“This is the worst song that has ever been recorded. I will not be playing an excerpt. Thank you very much for listening “
[theme music plays]
“Patreon bonus episode number 396, ‘Rockin’ the Man in the Boat’, by Mike Love”
[9 and a half minutes of content warnings]
“This is the worst song that has ever been recorded. I will not be playing an excerpt. Thank you very much for listening “
[theme music plays]
Content warnings! The Lemonheads! Iggy Pop: this guy is nuts! Black gay Communist poet Langston Hughes! Fleetwood Mac! The Grateful Dead! Muhammad Ali! Acceptance speech humour from Bob Dylan! Tennille! Barry Manilow! We’re going to need a bigger skeet.
The new (and ridiculously long) 500 Songs episode is now (finally!) up! What connects The Captain and Tennille and Pink Floyd? What connects Mike Love, Little Richard, and Alan Lomax? And what do any of those things have to do with "Shortenin' Bread"? You might find out in this...
Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 4: “Sometimes I Have A Great Notion”
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 third and final (and very, very long) part of a multi…
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March 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Content warnings! The Lemonheads! Iggy Pop: this guy is nuts! Black gay Communist poet Langston Hughes! Fleetwood Mac! The Grateful Dead! Muhammad Ali! Acceptance speech humour from Bob Dylan! Tennille! Barry Manilow! We’re going to need a bigger skeet.
Mike Mills! Gram Parsons! Stax! The Bangles! Yoko Ono! Geoff Emmerick! Ray Davies! Dusty in Memphis! Tav Falco! Katy Perry! A 10 minute Patreon bonus that is 1.5hrs long and covers material you’ve either never heard of or are mad that it doesn’t get a main episode. There’s no pleasing some people.
The latest 500 Songs paid-backer-only bonus episode is now up! "Shortenin' Bread"! "The Bourgeois Blues"! Charles Manson! The Beach Boys! Mental illness!
No, it's not the next episode of the main podcast uploaded by mistake, it's the story of "The Letter", the Box Tops, and Alex Chilton.
No, it's not the next episode of the main podcast uploaded by mistake, it's the story of "The Letter", the Box Tops, and Alex Chilton.
500 Songs Bonus: "The Letter" by The Box Tops | Andrew Hickey
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March 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Mike Mills! Gram Parsons! Stax! The Bangles! Yoko Ono! Geoff Emmerick! Ray Davies! Dusty in Memphis! Tav Falco! Katy Perry! A 10 minute Patreon bonus that is 1.5hrs long and covers material you’ve either never heard of or are mad that it doesn’t get a main episode. There’s no pleasing some people.
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! Vincent Price! A Kafkaesque web of bureaucracy! The Moody Blues! Doug Dragon! The Captain and Tennille! AC/DC! Barry Manilow! Zee Zo Zosi Zadfrack!
The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! Part three of our look at "Never Learn Not to Love", the Beach Boys, Charles Manson, and Huddie Ledbetter, this one is where the villain turns up. Not Charles Manson, not Murry Wilson, the *really* bad man. John Lomax.
Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 3: “Mister, Can You Give Me Some Direction?”
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 third part of a multi-episode look at the song “Never…
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February 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! Vincent Price! A Kafkaesque web of bureaucracy! The Moody Blues! Doug Dragon! The Captain and Tennille! AC/DC! Barry Manilow! Zee Zo Zosi Zadfrack!
Zaphod Beeble- D’oh! It’s been done! Oh well, there’s still: several rather poor British sex comedies! The Perfumed Gardeners! Les Cousins! The poetry of Blake and Yeats! “Hoots Mon!” by Lord Rockingham’s XI! The new Englebert Humperdinck!
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And the latest 500 songs backer-only bonus is (finally!) up! The Eurovision Song Contest! The Rolling Stones! Elton John! The Beach Boys! Zaphod Beeblebrox! Bennie Hill! ABBA! It can only be the story of... Nick Drake?
And the latest 500 songs backer-only bonus is (finally!) up! The Eurovision Song Contest! The Rolling Stones! Elton John! The Beach Boys! Zaphod Beeblebrox! Bennie Hill! ABBA! It can only be the story of... Nick Drake?
500 Songs Bonus: "Fruit Tree" by Nick Drake | Andrew Hickey
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January 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Zaphod Beeble- D’oh! It’s been done! Oh well, there’s still: several rather poor British sex comedies! The Perfumed Gardeners! Les Cousins! The poetry of Blake and Yeats! “Hoots Mon!” by Lord Rockingham’s XI! The new Englebert Humperdinck!
The Bosnian Hornpipes! The KLF! Jethro Tull! The King of Elfland’s Daughter! The Lord of the Rings! Robert Louis Stevenson! Bowie on Sax! Sellers on Ukelele! Morris Dancing! An experimental Brechtian drama about the Napoleonic wars! Wassailing! John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic!
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Patreon backers have a new half-hour backer-only bonus podcast episode. David Bowie! Peter Sellers! Status Quo! Sixteenth century Latin carols! Dying and reborn gods! Why we demand figgy pudding with menaces at Christmas! It's the story of Steeleye Span and "Gaudete"
Patreon backers have a new half-hour backer-only bonus podcast episode. David Bowie! Peter Sellers! Status Quo! Sixteenth century Latin carols! Dying and reborn gods! Why we demand figgy pudding with menaces at Christmas! It's the story of Steeleye Span and "Gaudete"
500 Songs Backer Bonus: "Gaudete" by Steeleye Span | Andrew Hickey
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December 25, 2024 at 3:44 AM
The Bosnian Hornpipes! The KLF! Jethro Tull! The King of Elfland’s Daughter! The Lord of the Rings! Robert Louis Stevenson! Bowie on Sax! Sellers on Ukelele! Morris Dancing! An experimental Brechtian drama about the Napoleonic wars! Wassailing! John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic!