The Story Behind: Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run, Ep 227
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Paul McCartney was feeling left behind by his ex-bandmates' solo careers and dealing with an ever-shiftin...
22 Syys 20251h 41min
The Story Behind: Sonic Youth - Evol, Ep 226
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Sonic Youth set out to reinvent rock music by merging avant garde art world ideas with noisy guitars. By ...
15 Syys 20251h 35min
The Story Behind: Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power, Ep. 225
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Pantera transitioned from a glam metal band into the sludgy groove pioneers we know them to be today and ...
8 Syys 20251h 25min
The Story Behind: The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Ep 224
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Stephin Merritt set out to write a songbook's worth of material and record it in his bedroom in Manhattan...
1 Syys 20251h 42min
The Story Behind: Television - Marquee Moon, Ep. 223
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Television helped kick off the New York music scene of the 1970s by building the stage bands played on - ...
25 Elo 20251h 33min
The Story Behind: The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, Ep. 222
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Pogues were born out of the Irish diaspora in London and out of Shane McGowan's love of the downtrodd...
18 Elo 20251h 54min
BONUS: Song Battle: 90s 1 Hit Wonders - Ep. #1
On our Patreon-only bonus show Song Battle - we pick 16 songs to enter a bracket competition, write tweets about each one while telling a short backstory about how they were made, then vote on who sho...
15 Elo 202542min
The Story Behind: Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul, Ep. 221
Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Isaac Hayes was a back-of-house songwriter who got thrust to the front of a struggling record label calle...
11 Elo 20251h 26min
