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Doug Hagerman's avatar

I love this post! Also check out some of the episodes of Marc Maron's WTF podcast. He is able to get inside people's heads. Check out his interviews with McCartney, Mavis Staples, Springsteen, and others. Strong Songs is also a good podcast - I especially liked the episodes on Stop Making Sense, Born to Run, September, and more. Finally, the Wonder of Stevie is really good.

I would love to hear the further suggestions of the rest of you music lovers.

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

Maron is the master. I sorta didn’t include interviews because there are just so many JT’s impossible to sift through. I’ll check out some of the strong songs and Stevie episodes

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Darius Mullin's avatar

Excited to add these to my podcast queue!

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Charlie Harding's avatar

Thanks Chris, I really appreciate your kind words, recommendations, and of course endless musical insights

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

Of course! There was also another switched on pop episode that I remembered loving and couldn’t find. I think it was about TikTok broadly. But I remember a nice segment about weird distorted sounds. Started to feel like I might have made it up lol

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Hugh Jones's avatar

This is great! I've been obsessed with '500 Songs' for a few years now, been through the entire series twice. I look forward to checking out some of the others on your list as I wait, and wait, for TMC's next season of "Cocaine & Rhinestones."

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

the one problem with 500 songs is that there's such a long wait between episodes!

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Hugh Jones's avatar

Yes but they’re always worth waiting for!

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Mark Hooper's avatar

Great list. Big fan of history of rock in 500 songs and song exploder. Also recommend Strong Songs and the Dissect season on Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Look forward to trying some more of these.

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Mark Nash's avatar

Never been a big podcast guy, but some of these sound fantastic!

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

If nothing else listen to the one ranked number one

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Mark Nash's avatar

Listened to the Reply All podcast yesterday and it was amazing!!

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

It’s so wild

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Patrick Hicks's avatar

We have the same top 2! Two of the best podcast episodes ever

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

When I set out to do this the only thing I was sure of was the top 2

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Rick J's avatar

There are two that you missed...The Ongoing History of New Music, the OG of podcasts (Alan Cross started doing this show in Toronto, which was syndicated across Canada back in the early 90s and has over 1000 shows) and his new podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. Both are excellent and very informative.

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Rick J's avatar

There are two that you missed...The Ongoing History of New Music, the OG of podcasts (Alan Cross started doing this show in Toronto, which was syndicated across Canada back in the early 90s and has over 1000 shows) and his new podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. Both are excellent and very imformative.

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Rick J's avatar

There are two that you missed...The Ongoing History of New Music, the OG of podcasts (Alan Cross started doing this show in Toronto, which was syndicated across Canada back in the early 90s and has over 1000 shows) and his new podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. Both are excellent and very imformative.

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Chris Dalla Riva's avatar

I’m familiar with the former, not the latter. There were a few ongoing history episodes that I considered but I couldn’t pick one that I felt stood above the rest.

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Rick J's avatar

There are two that you missed...The Ongoing History of New Music, the OG of podcasts (Alan Cross started doing this show in Toronto, which was syndicated across Canada back in the early 90s and has over 1000 shows) and his new podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. Both are excellent and very imformative.

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