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
- 2025-02-21 14:56
- last episode published
- 2025-02-21 05:00
- publication frequency
- 12.72 days
- Contributors
- Kirk Hamilton
- Author
- Kirk Hamilton
- Owner
- strongsongspodcast@gmail.com (strongsongspodcast@gmail.com)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 181
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- Categories
- 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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| 2025-02-21 | Strong Songs Season Seven is now underway! You can listen to the season premiere right now on Patreon, or here in the main feed in two weeks, on March 7.For those next two weeks, sign up to become a patron of the show and use the code "STRONG" and you'... |
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| 2025-01-31 | In between seasons, Kirk re-ran a bunch of old episodes and prefaced each one with a new music recommendation. He's taking those down recasts in preparation for season seven, but it seemed like a good idea to put all the music recommendations in one pl... |
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| 2025-01-03 | In light of Janis Stockhouse's unexpected death at the tail end of 2024, we're re-posting Kirk's 2019 interview with her for anyone who might want to listen to it.Janis started teaching at North high school in Bloomington, Indiana, in the early 1980s. ... |
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| 2024-12-27 | Kirk picks apart not one, not two, but twenty one micro-songs by the great They Might Be Giants.What's that blue thing doing here? Who's knocking on the wall? And for that matter, who's that standing out the window? It's time to answer those questions ... |
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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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