Best Song Podcasts (2024)
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On each episode of ONE SONG, friends Diallo Riddle (Emmy-nominated star and creator of HBO Max’s 'South Side' and IFC’s 'Sherman’s Showcase') and Blake "LUXXURY" Robin (Music Producer & TikTok creator) will hilariously break down ONE SONG from the pop music canon that you know - or need to know - but have never heard quite like this.
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Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. Each episode features an artist discussing a song of theirs, breaking down the sounds and ideas that went into the writing and recording. Hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.
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Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

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Music: it's good. On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.
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First came '60 Songs That Explain the '90s.' (We did that.) Then came '60 Songs That Explain the '90s: The 2000s.' (We're doing that now—and yes, that's the actual name.) But whether you want to jump back to the Clinton years or join us as we reboot our old iPods, you can find all of the collected works of Rob Harvilla below. Come back each Wednesday for a new episode.
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Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

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Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance. To get early access to ad-free episodes and extra content, subscribe to Pushkin+ in Apple Podcasts are pushkin.fm/pus. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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Analyzing the music and meaning of one album per season, one song per episode. Join host Cole Cuchna as he dives deep into albums by Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Radiohead, Beyonce, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, and more. Let's Dissect.
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The Story Behind The Song

Consequence Podcast Network

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The Story Behind the Song finds host Peter Csathy digging into some of the most iconic songs of all time with the artists who made them. Others may scratch the surface, but we go deeper than anyone into the musician’s fascinating creative journey of how their most lasting songs came to be – and the moment that sparked their inspiration.
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What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and song snippets, Chris dissects how that song you love—or hate—dominated the airwaves, made its way to the top of the charts and shaped your memories forever. Want more Hit Parade? Join Slate Plus to unlock monthly early-access episodes. Plus, you’ll get ad ...
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1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. Thats the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard (the Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, This American Life, and one of Time Outs 10 best comedians of 2015). Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he cant hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen! T ...
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Since launching in 2000, All Songs Considered has been NPR's flagship program for music discovery, artist interviews and conversations with friends and fellow music lovers about the really big questions, like what was the best decade for music, are there albums everyone can agree on, and what do you put on when you need a good cry? Weekly, with host Robin Hilton and the NPR Music family.
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Joey's Song raises money to fund research into treatments and cures for epilepsy. We host concerts featuring Rock Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy winners and Top 40 artists. On the podcast we talk with our artists, industry leaders and our key contributors to find out what makes Joey's Song so important to them. To learn more about Joey's Song visit us at Joeyssong.org and follow us on social media @joeyssong on all the popular platforms.
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Song Prayer Pause

Dr. Elizabeth Fulgaro

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One minute prayers followed by song prayer by Dr. Elizabeth Fulgaro. The lyrics of the song prayer provide the inspiration for the worshipful prayer for a double engraving of the song’s message on your heart as you offer it to God.
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The West Wing Weekly

Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway

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An episode-by-episode discussion of The West Wing, one of television’s most beloved shows, co-hosted by one of its stars, Joshua Malina, along with Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder.
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Three Song Stories is an exploration of the power music has to connect us to times, places, people, and emotions from our lives. The show brings out the guests’ personalities, and personal histories, by mining the connections music has made during their lifetimes. It’s also a chance to sit back and listen to the eclectic mix of songs the guests have chosen for their ultimate musical memory short list.
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Shitty Song of the Week

RedStar Digital Media

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It's the music competition show that takes two terrible songs and makes them battle head-to-head for the title of Shitty Song of the Week. Any genre, any year, any band. No song will be left unscathed!
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This is a podcast about Stephen Sondheim's entire body of work show by show and song by song. Each week Kyle Marshall invites an expert to discuss a Sondheim song in-depth. Together they discover the humour, how the songs inform character, and any hidden meanings. Most importantly they try to understand the man behind the music, the Shakespeare of our time, as best they can.
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Scene to Song

Shoshana Greenberg

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Hosted by writer Shoshana Greenberg, Scene to Song brings on a guest to talk about a musical, musical theater writer, or a topic or trend in musical theater. Theme music by Julia Meinwald.
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HOW HARD WAS THE NIGHT by Dr. Elizabeth Fulgaro. Tend to your soul in December through about 5 minutes of brief prayer & an original Christmas song prayer daily. Inhale God's essence in His presence, come into God's rhythm & longing for more connection with you, & remind yourself what Christmas is all about. Use each day's fresh Christmas Pause or …
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Thanksgiving and Black Friday are behind us and Cyber Monday is here. And in terms of the latter two, most of the shopping does happen online these days. But if you did pop into a store or two since last Thursday, you’ll agree: if it wasn’t already by the moment Halloween ended, Christmas music is king for the next three weeks. So as much as we cra…
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Hello all you silly shitheads! And welcome to another SSOTY hiatus episode. I swear, next week we'll get the SSOTY festivities started. We've just had a lot of prep to do for it so these few bonus episodes were just to hold you over until that starts. But this bonus episode is a patreon Hidden Track from the Whey Jennings VS Trace Cyrus episode fro…
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On this encore episode of The Story Behind the Song, hear Garbage's Shirley Manson discuss "Only Happy When It Rains" and more. Fronting the outfit is the charismatic and irrepressible Shirley Manson from Edinburgh, Scotland. Manson first met up with her three future bandmates in Wisconsin as a result of one of those strange, classic twists of rock…
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Marc Collins serves on The City of Ft. Myers Planning Board, the Ft. Myers Charter Review Committee, and since late 2022 he’s been the Executive Director of the Uncommon Friends Foundation. The list of the nonprofits and other local organizations he’s either directly involved with or that he supports somehow is far too long to list here. Marc is ve…
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Another instrumental song episode. Enjoy! Visit our website! www.belongingsongs.com - Songs - Merch - Contact Send us a message: bs@belongingsongs.com Check out our Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/belongingsongs/ Follow us throughout the week for your latest BS news. This is where we do most of our social media-ing. Our stand-alone songs are a…
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http://www.beautifulsongoftheweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Lusine-Retrace.mp3 In the seventh century BCE, the Latin cities of Rome and Alba Longa were on the brink of war. From what I can tell, it was mostly a territorial pissing contest; the two cities were geographically close enough that there were no religious or ethnic disputes to speak …
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It's the YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS SONG R&B EDITION. And we're on an R&B mission. There's soooo much great ammunition. And we can barely glance at the full condition. Playlist is here, and you know it's bitchin'! But you can always go on your own expedition. And enrich your R&B cognition. On 'the dock of the (internet) bay', go fishin! And reel in some …
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Send us a text Join the boys as they take in the last batch of tasty unreleased tracks from the Purple Rain Deluxe release. There's a lot to chew on with Possessed, Wonderful Ass, Velvet Kitty Cat, Katrina's Paper Dolls, Father's Song and We Can F*** all on the menu. And just like any quality family gathering the boys have some big disagreements bu…
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Sometimes a Song is about thanks and hope. “Thanks” ( a very specific version of it) was our Word of the Week. And in the case of our song, the “hope” involved is also a very special kind of hope, a fellow named “Bob,” whose lifetime and work spanned the whole of the 20th Century. An actor/comedian who was at the center of the American entertainmen…
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Ranking the songs on Kendrick Lamar's GNX Ranking the songs on Kendrick Lamar’s GNX In this minisode, Luke ranks the songs on Kendrick Lamar’s new surprise album GNX. Plus he shares the music he’s been loving and the #NewMusicFriday releases he’s excited about. Make your own GNX tier list using our template: https://tiermaker.com/create/kendrick-la…
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Song vs. Song has announced the podcast's official political stance: Down with The Man! And we have two great late '80s hip-hop songs to help us take down the establishment, but which makes us angrier, N.W.A.'s "Fuck the Police" or Public Enemy's "Fight the Power"? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at htt…
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On this special re-run of One Song, Diallo and LUXXURY are breaking out their skinny jeans, thrifted leather jackets, and statement hairstyles as they breakdown classic indie banger, "Maps." The duo explore everything from the origins of the New York indie scene, to the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s writing process, to Karen O’s incredible onstage presence. Com…
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Katie Crutchfield is a singer and songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. She’s been making music under the name Waxahatchee since 2010. Her fifth album, Saint Cloud, came out this past March. Pitchfork named it Best New Music, and The Guardian called it the best album of the year so far. In this episode, Katie breaks down how she made the song “Fire.…
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Content Warning This podcast episode includes discussions of violence, and mentions of sexual violence and rape. Welcome To Eurovision Wars Eurovision Wars is a series of podcasts exploring geopolitical themes as they emerged on the Eurovision Song Contest stage. You can listen to Seasons 1 and 2 in full on Spotify, covering such topics as the Russ…
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Felix Contreras and Anamaria Sayre continue their discussion on the 25th anniversary of the Latin Grammys and the industry's changes, featuring insight from Nathy Peluso, Rauw Alejandro and more. Songs featured in this episode: •Fuerza Regida, "TQM" •Fuerza Regida, "Que onda" •Fuerza Regida "HARLEY QUINN" •Latin Mafia, "y como te digo que" Audio fo…
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Send us a text YouTuber and multi-instrumentalist Nancy Howie shares her love for You Never Give Me Your Money from the Abbey Road album. She talks about its multiple layers of meaning and effortless shifts between powerful emotions, and notes how it calls back to earlier Beatles music. Nancy's YouTube channel Fathom: https://youtube.com/@fathommus…
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What makes live albums from the 1970s such an enduring force in rock history? Join us as we reminisce about the raw energy that electrified audiences and catapulted bands like Kiss and Bob Seger to stardom, with the iconic "Kiss Alive" and Seger's "Live Bullet" as our focal points. Mike & William share an intriguing look at how these recordings bec…
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Join us in a moment of 60 Songs history being made as Missy Elliott becomes the first artist with not one, but two songs in the 60 Songs hall of fame with “Work It” added to the mix. In celebration, Rob shares memories from his time at DJ camp as well as a list of some of his favorite songs of all time! Stay and hear Justin Charity join the mix and…
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In this episode, theatre historian, author, and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper discusses women writers in musical theater as part of her new book, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out. We also talk about the song "Old Friend" from Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford's 1978 musical I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It o…
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Kay edited this one so I have no idea what the title means nor do I have any memory recording it. Here's what Kay says about it: "the episode is called ASOBAPBBQ. it's about theon hears some very cool stories from roose and tyrion hangs out on a boat. the song is will anybody ever love me" Chapters: ADWD Reek III, Tyrion VIII Outro music: Will Anyb…
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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 “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, and the links between Charles Manson and the LA music scene. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to mo…
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Hailing from the quiet, wooded, mountain towns of New England, Nathan Jacques is a singer/songwriter now based in Los Angeles, CA. Contrary to his geographical roots, Nathan paints deeply woven narrative stories in cinematic soundscapes that are undeniably and irresistibly Western. ​Starting with his 2021 debut album, ‘Loud Mind’, Nathan has been b…
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Matthew 5:38–48“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. …
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It's time for the hardest rocking song ever written about sea life, as Kirk takes a deep dive into Heart's 1977 body-shaker "Barracuda." A deceptively complex song written around a deceptively straightforward riff, "Barracuda" opens the door for a discussion of the particulars of guitar tone, stompbox effects, the long history of the "galloping gro…
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We’re celebrating the 2024 Junior Eurovision Song Contest final in Madrid! Steve is joined by the three Spanish hosts of this year’s final: Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet and Melani Garcia. Ruth talks about her own experience at Eurovision after she came 10th in 2014 with her song Dancing In The Rain. Marc is a well known actor and model in his home cou…
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This episode pays tribute to our friend Elliot Harmon, whom we dearly miss. From very early on, Elliot found ways to contribute to our scene with his creativity and his humble (yet daring) attitude. The episode features audio tracks of several poems written and performed by Elliot, as well as music from his band Table 9, and his solo project, Alex …
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