Strong Songs
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.
- Website
- http://strongsongs.libsyn.com/website
- Description
- 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.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-13 17:49
- last episode published
- 2024-12-13 05:00
- publication frequency
- 12.62 days
- Contributors
- Kirk Hamilton
- Author
- Kirk Hamilton
- Owner
- strongsongspodcast@gmail.com (strongsongspodcast@gmail.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 177
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- Games & Hobbies Performing Arts Music Video Games Arts
Recommendations
| User | Recommendation | Date |
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| Arnim Sommer | Songs and the concepts in them broken down in an easy listening style. Sometimes connections to other songs that contain the same concept. Great! | 2019-04-25 |
Episodes
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| 2024-12-13 | Here comes that Santa Ana wind again, blowing us right into the slightly skewed world of Steely Dan.It was never a question whether Strong Songs would do a Steely Dan episode, it was more a question of which song to focus on. In the end, Kirk chose "Ba... |
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| 2024-11-29 | It takes an extremely strong song to top the charts three separate times in three separate decades, but "I Will Always Love You" is just such a song.Written and recorded (twice) by Dolly Parton and then re-recorded in show-stopping fashion by Whitney H... |
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| 2024-11-15 | 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 discu... |
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| 2024-11-01 | Let the children lose it, let the children use it, and let all the children join in for Strong Songs!Kirk tackles a pair of classics by the great David Bowie: 1969's melancholy "Space Oddity" and 1972's triumphant "Starman." What goes up, as they say, ... |
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| 2024-10-18 | Let's go back, let's go back, let's go way on back to that time Aretha Franklin recorded one of her best songs.On this episode, Kirk dives into two different versions of Franklin's classic tune "Think." First it's the laid back groove and roomy mix of ... |
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| 2024-10-04 |
Rediscovering Stevie Wonder, with Wesley Morris and Josh Gwynn Kirk talks with Wesley Morris and Josh Gwynn about the endless world of Stevie Wonder. Morris and Gwynn are host and producer, respectively, of the brilliant new six-part podcast series The Wonder of Stevie.Check out Josh Gwynn's terrific pop culture p... |
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| 2024-09-27 | A cross-post of the first episode of "The Wonder of Stevie," a new six-part podcast series from Higher Ground and Pineapple Street Studios. It's a great show - find it on Apple, Amazon, Spotify... it's a podcast, you know the deal.Next week, we'll run ... |
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| 2024-09-20 | Ba de ya! Say that you remember! Ba de ya! Dancing in September! Ba de yah! Musical analysiiiis!It's finally time for Strong Songs to take on one of the strongest bands of all, the great Earth, Wind & Fire. In honor of September 21, Kirk does a dee... |
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| 2024-09-13 | Back in August, Kirk went on Dave Hamilton's music podcast "Gig Gab" to talk about music, Strong Songs, podcasting, and life. It was a fun conversation, and seemed worth republishing here.You can find the full show notes here, watch a video version her... |
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| 2024-09-06 | Open up your heart! Open up your heart! Open up your heart, let Kimbra pull you out!On this episode, Kirk goes for a swim in the extra-buoyant waters of Kimbra's 2011 pop stomper "Cameo Lover." It's an intricate musical narrative told through shifting ... |
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