Earbuds And Earworms

In this week’s episode of haunted audio, Mitchell and Amy annoy some spirits, talk about choosing the wrong candles, and other creepy spellcasting mishaps. Wizards, witches, portals, and pastels.Voicemail: 731-400-BUDS(2837)Email: eandepod@gmail.comMusic:Deja Vu - Witchy Woman Heart - Magic ManHocus Pocus - Come Little ChildrenElectric Wizard - Electric WizardJohanna Warren - Rose PotionPuscifer - Indigo ChildrenAdvance Base - Summon SatanThem - She Put a Hex on YouPagan Altar - The Black MassOctober Country - My Girlfriend is a WitchEternal Champion - InvokerThe Sword - Tres Brujas

This week, inspired by Earbuddy Jenny, he show is about those songs with that weird trivia behind them, like the song written by an NFL player, or the goth metal song that is really about a kitty cat. Amy shows that she only knows one vague thing about one song and Mitchell brings all the knowledge with the Earbuddies.Music:Taking Back Sunday - This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)Slint - TweezHuey Lewis and The News - I Want a New DrugDan Reeder - The Weather is a Dead ManBoston - The LaunchBonnie Raitt - I Can’t Make You Love MeWarren Zevon - Werewolves of LondonThe Sleepy Jackson - God Lead Your SoulGuided by Voices - My Kind of SoldierType O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)The Jesus Lizard - Mouth BreatherCharley Crockett - Jamestown Ferry

After a couple of internet conversations (read: arguments) with folks that have fallen too far into the internet, Mitchell and Amy tackle paranoia and conspiracies through song this week. The Earbuddies have had their fill too and bring all the songs that give that unease, followed, and conspiratorial feeling. Also, here is a quick Kurzgesagt video that gives a simple test to debunking conspiracy theories found online.Music:Insane Clown Posse - MiraclesBlink 182 - Aliens ExistThe Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the SkyThey Might Be Giants - Cage and AquariumAdolescents - Flat Earth StompEddy Current Suppression Ring - Medieval WallRay Stevens - Santa Claus is Watchin’ YouHawkwind - Orgone AccumulatorCage - I Never Knew YouNOFX - Pods and GodsFrank Black - Men in BlackMisfits - Bullet

This week is pretty much the definition of Earbuds and Earworms. The songs that we got from friends and mark special moments in our lives and our friendships. Whether we are traveling cross-country to meet internet friends, building treehouses, trying to pull a sneaky and introduce new music, or just driving in cars, bonding over sharing music is what Mitchell, Amy, and the Earbuddies do.Music:Funeral Suits - All Those Friendly PeopleRandy Newman - You’ve Got a Friend in MeEverything Everything - Night of the Long KnivesBØRNS -10,000 Emerald PoolsVeruca Salt - Used to Know HerMan Man - Haute TropiqueTodrick Hall - Y. A. S.Arcade Fire - Wake UpCave In - Retina Sees RewindMetallica - My Friend of MiseryChairlift - BruisesBeabadoobee - Are You Sure

Look, the theme of the show isn’t Amy mispeaking over and over, but it happens, we have acknowledged it. Just tweet complaints at her manager, because it is absolutely shameful. The actual theme is covers, which hasn’t even been mentioned for two years...that’s pretty shameful as well. Anyhoo, Covers! Songs we love, but different!Music:Father John Misty - Bird on the WireCrowbar - DreamweaverAshes to Ashes - Warpaint1000 Homo DJs - SupernautPuddles Pity Party - TimeElliot Smith - All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)The Isley Brothers - Ohio Machine GunBlood for Blood - RunawayRobert Plant - MonkeyThe Cardigans - IronmanJawbox - Cornflake GirlFountains of Wayne - Today’s Teardrops

This week, a very tired Amy and self-isolating before it was cool Mitchell, recorded a show that finally acknowledges the current global pandemic. They had been pretty quiet about it, but like, umm, they had to record remotely from each other. The Earbuddies brought some absolute perfect gems. This week’s show picture is from Jamie Harmon’s Shelter in Place Project.Music:Future - Mask OffCeline Dion - All By MyselfThe Police - Don’t Stand So Close To MeHiss Golden Messenger - I Need a TeacherAaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common ManMoby Grape - Going NowhereBaroness - Shock MeThe Caretaker - Camaraderie at Arm’s LengthJens Lekman - You are the LightMudhoney - Sweet Young Thing Ain’t So Sweet No MoreHaunt - Divide and ConquerWeen - Gabrielle

Drafting off of last week’s theme of having an episode publish and not being edited properly, this week’s episode is about miscalculations, mistakes, and general oopsies. Let’s all just settle in and admit we all aren’t perfect and mistakes are just the human in us showing through with a playlist of whoopsi-doos.Music:Elina Born - Miss Calculation Chelsea Wolfe - Mistake in Parting  Icona Pop - Next Mistake Jenny Owen Youngs - F*** Was IJames Figurine - ApologiesTim Fite - Big MistakeThe Beths - Future Me Hates MeMen At Work - It’s a MistakeMetric - Calculation ThemeTyrone Davis - Can I Change My MindIdlewild - Mistake PageantBill Wurtz - Just Did A Bad Thing

This week, Mitchell and Amy collect songs about large bodies of water and Amy gets progressively more caffeinated as the show progresses. There is some really dumb levity in this one and cracking jokes is one of the ways to weather this week in the news.Voicemail: 731-400-BUDS(2837)Email: eandepod@gmail.comMusic:Christopher Cross - SailingTLC - WaterfallsBobby Darin - Beyond the SeaBonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney - My Home is the SeaRide - Cold Water PeopleNick Drake - RivermanAs Cities Burn - Into the SeaPixies - Wave of MutilationLos Campesinos! - The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the FutureRosey - OpportunistSons of Otis - Super Typhoon.Transparent Man - The Ocean is a F*** of a Long Way to Swim

This past week, Mitchell has finally received his first pair of glasses and it is either to correct his astigmatism, or hide his superhero alter ego. As with any event in their lives, Mitchell and Amy make a theme of it and boy, oh boy, are there many many songs about vision, eyesight, eyeballs, and seeing. Enjoy your hearing sense while listening to songs about the seeing sense.Music:Ya La Tengo - Tears are in Your EyesBillie Eilish - Ocean EyesHall & Oates - Private EyesSubtle - EyewashPerfume Genius - Eye in the WallLuscious Jackson - Naked EyeMelvins - Goin’ BlindEisley - Telescope EyesKavinsky - ProtovisionCrystal Antlers - A Thousand EyesJohn Fred and His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)Rozwell Kid - Magic Eye

In the early light of noon, Amy awoke from sleep to come up with a theme. The theme was “notable people” and that is what is on the plate this week! Mitchell, as always, has well thought out and researched commentary and Amy, for once, googled information on more than a single song. A flugelhorn is also buried in this episode as well, so listen closely.Music:Toni Calderisi - Mr. RobinsonJohnny Horton - Young Abe Lincoln (Make a Tall, Tall Man)Filter - Hey Man, Nice ShotEllis Paul - Rachel CarsonCountry Joe McDonald and Jerry Garcia - Clara BartonAmen Dunes - Miki DoraPeter Gabriel - BikoDion - Abraham, Martin, and JohnThe Inbreds - Amelia EarhartLeonard Cohen - Story of IsaacKiller Mike - ReaganThey Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor

Amy and Mitchell are massive fans of skills that aren’t necessarily paid skills. They learn instruments, get into crafts, make stuff, listen to other people do their thing, and generally relish the joy that folks get out of whatever they are into. This week is a celebration of that structured time before work and bed. Hobby on, you Hobby-ists!Music:Bill Oddie - The Knitting Song Chuck McCarthy - Scrapbooking Song Boy Scouts - Nike Angel Du$t - Bang My DrumFelicity Ford - Shetland Wool Week SongBearcubbin’ - Girls With Fun HaircutsLeslie Hall - Craft TalkSpeedy Ortiz - Indoor SoccerBolt Thrower - Inside the WireYour Best Friend Jippy - Always WorkingWhy? - Ob Ish

On occasion, we just have a free for all because whatever is on our turntables, iphones, ipods, and Zunes doesn’t necessarily fall into a category, so everything just gets slapped in together. It’s fun, it’s mellow, and there were roller skates on during the recording of this show.Music:Gene Clark - Los AngelesLou Rawls - Dead End StreetFlorence and the Machine - Cosmic LoveThe New Pornographers - Mass RomanticThe Seasons - TangerineCatherine Feeny - Mr. BluePale Lips - You’re a DollBuffalo Killers - The Path Before MeApes of the State - Internet SongEn Attendant Ana - Somewhere and SomehowDan Penn - Trash ManMiloe - Everything (That Should Go)

This week is all about defending genres that don’t get love or are not super known. We finally get a true breakdown of what the heck “Sunshine Sludge” is. Also, welp, there is a lot of cursing and there are apologies to one specific mom, multiple times. Music:Matthew Herbert - The AudienceBrooks and Dunn - Boot Scootin’ BoogieDuke Ellington - Rhapsody in BlueFloor - Song For ErisBohren and Der Club of Gore - Sollen es doch Alle WissenHatsune Miku - Rolling GirlWhitehouse - Wriggle Like a F****ing EelMumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Dharohar Project - Mehendi RachiSouthern Culture on the Skids - Whole Lotta ThingsNothing, Nowhere - HammerGridlink - Constant AutumnFixation - Black Clouds

After about a 100 episodes of being highly caffeinated on microphones together, Mitchell and Amy finally tackle caffeine/coffee as a theme. From the quiet morning first cuppa, to the third undiluted cold brew, each song fits into the theme. Also, never flirt with someone who can’t escape you (i.e. baristas).Show picture is from the “This Show Has Everything” ShopMusic:Karate - Caffeine or MeInk Spots - Java JiveOtis Redding - Cigarettes and CoffeePsychostick - CaffeineBeabadoobea - CoffeeBlack Flag - Black CoffeeTony Alvon and the Belairs - Sexy Coffee PotElla Fitzgerald - Black CoffeeKim Mitchell - Go For SodaBeauty Pill - Afrikaner BaristaJack Stauber - Coffee

Mitchell and Amy have both been enchanted by Claire Saffitz (as well as the rest of the Bon Appetit test kitchen) and made this week all about food, because why not? There is discussion of some food ethics (although both can go on and on about all of that if you catch them in the mood to get preachy). Hot dogs and weird metaphors for all!Voicemail: 731-400-BUDS(2837)Email: eandepod@gmail.comMusic:The Blues Brothers - Rubber BiscuitNRBQ - RC Cola and a Moon PieLed Zeppelin - Hot DogAriel Pink - Jell-OMiRthkon - BananaThe Detroit Cobras - Hot Dog (Watch Me Eat)Mr. Bungle - Squeeze Me MacaroniGalaxie 500 - StrangeParry Gripp - Yum Yum Breakfast BurritoCamper Van Beethoven - Ice Cream EverydayYouth of Today - No MoreThe Aquabats - Pizza Day

Mitchell and Amy got spoiled by the plethora of suggestions from last week so Mitchell toss out a softball that didn’t elicit Barenaked Ladies’ One Week (ya’ll!). Amy is extremely tired for no particular reason so there are more tangents than there are days in the week. Also, punks like Mondays.Music:Fats Domino - Blue Monday Cherelle - Saturday Love Barenaked Ladies - One Week Malibu Ken - TuesdayThe Torn ACLs - Can’t Say No to FridayOmni - Wednesday WeddingStone Temple Pilots - Days of the WeekMatt Chamberlain - MondayNOFX - Thank God It’s MondayDJ Shadow - Six DaysBleached - Wednesday Night MelodyThey Might Be Giants - Seven Days of the Week

Mitchell (and Amy, in spirit) combed through the most plentiful bounty of suggestions by the Earbuddies to make this absolutely phenomenal episode. Amy decides that she is taking it chill this week and Mitchell seriously put in the work, by explaining what makes Robitussin interesting, listening to over 100 song suggestions, and reassuring that finger bells were used in one particular song. Music:Classics IV - StormyMagnolia Electric Co. - JosephineBeck - Steve Threw UpNo Joy - JudithLord Huron - LouisaDean Friedman - ArielTwo Inch Astronaut - Andy’s Progress ReportJoanna Newsom - SadieMindless Self Indulgence - ClarissaThe Raveonettes - Aly Walk With MeLilys - GingerHozier - Jackie and Wilson

In a first ever episode of E&E focused on a specific audio engineer, Mitchell and Amy go all in on the man, the myth, the legend (gosh, so obvious of a metaphor), Steve Albini. Performer and crafter of sounds, Albini has a wide range of sounds and there is no shortage of genres going on here. This episode is all about great craftsmanship and ya’ll should enjoy it heartily.Music: Nirvana - Heart Shaped BoxDescartes a Kant - Until the Day We DieMelt Banana - Sick Zip EverywhereThe Ponys - Another WoundPJ Harvey - Rid of MePezz - New MathShadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Honey, You’re Wasting AmmoLow - SunflowerMclusky - To Hell With Good Intentions

In a nod to one of Amy’s favorite subjects and with the suggestion of the world-renowned Lum, this week is brought to you by the letters “VISCERA”! Missing the opportunity to make this a perfectly sexy episode (dude, the episode number is NOICE), it still gets pretty sexy. Mitchell steers the show back on track as Amy tries to explain the importance of the spleen because she has only had half a cup of coffee. Enjoy this “head to toe” experience. Also, there are lots of curses...just prepare your ears.Voicemail: 731-400-BUDS(2837)Email: eandepod@gmail.comMusic:Wovenhand - Sinking HandsJewel - HandsBlack-Eyed Peas - My HumpsPuscifer - Cuntry BonerTears for Fears - Head Over HeelsPushmonkey - HandslidePEARS - Hinged by SpineRick & Morty - The Small Intestine SongBig Black - Fists of LoveNora Jones - Toes

In what is possibly the third rehashing of animals as a theme, the best of the best rises to the top. Like an eagle. Or a really ambitious parakeet. There is noodling (like an octopus’s legs) and musing (like whatever a cat is doing in the window while staring out there). The most important part is that some amps have something called a “fatness” button and truly, the world will never be the same.Music:Rufus Thomas - Walking the DogTV on the Radio - Wolf like MeSun Kil Moon - DogsTweak Bird - PigeonsBillie Marten - FishRetribution Gospel Choir - White WolfEvile - Killer from the DeepGroovie Ghoulies - ChupacabraSuckers - Black SheepMad River - Amphetamine GazelleMeneguar - House of CatsDan Reeder - Born a Worm