The New Decay Attempts a Podcast

Well folks I've finally gone and created a podcast to coincide with both this blog as well as my radio show. I hope you will enjoy it!

This first podcast is going to be focusing around The Magnetic Fields classic 1999 release 69 Love Songs. The album is one that will stay on decent rotation in my household for years to come as it has a bit of everything. Some classic jazz, synth-pop, punk rock, show tunes and the list can go on, which I try to reflect in my choice of tunes for the podcast.

While at first glance the album seems to be focused around one key topic, love, in many ways it can be seen equally as an attack on that genre commonly known as rock (or Rawk as it is also sometimes referred to as). Stephen Merritt seems bent on reminding us of the beauty that can be found in other forms of music, and that rock is far too restrictive for its own good. Thus 69 Love Songs sits well among other great records such as Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!, B 52's, Metal Box or even The Human League's Dare.

Whether or not you agree with him, it's hard not to enjoy this massive project of his. So without further hesitation the podcast...

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Tracklisting
1.) Louie and Ella: You Can't Take That Away From Me
2.) Odetta: Another Man Done Gone
3.) Harry Nilsson: Love Story (You and Me)
4.) Roberto Delgado and His Orchestra: Sugar Sugar
5.) Talking Heads: The Girls Want to Be With the Girls
6.) Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Enola Gay
7.) The Smiths: This Charming Man
8.) The Discettes: 1 2 3 4 5
9.) P:ANO: I Felt His Presents/Round E'vry Corner