Episode 719: Straining for Sublimity
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the phenomenon of the guitar solo: What it means, and whether it has a place in modern music.
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Heavy Metal on Overthinking It
Episode 587: Notional Loudness
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we celebrate the 11th anniversary of the show by watching “This Is Spinal Tap.” Because it also goes up to eleven.
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Episode 245: Just Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll
On the TFT Podcast, we tackle Alice in Chains’s popular 1992 heavy metal album, “Dirt.”
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Episode 228: “I’ll Just Take the Cassette Single of ‘November Rain’, Thanks.”
On the TFT Podcast we listen to and discuss Guns N’ Roses 1991 double-release, Use Your Illusion I & II.
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Episode 224: America Is Hangry
On the TFT Podcast, we tackle Metallica’s self-titled 1991 album, known as “The Black Album.”
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The Brilliant Stupidity of “This is Spinal Tap” and “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping”
We love pop music and heavy metal in spite of–and because of–their excesses and their stupidity.
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Heavy Metal, Urban Planning, Video Games, and the New York Philharmonic’s New Logo
The Oldest Symphony Orchestra in America, or the Hottest Band in the Land?
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Episode 202: Guns Vs. Roses is a False Dichotomy
On the TFT Podcast, Ryan and Matt listen to and discuss “Appetite for Destruction,” the debut album of Guns N’ Roses.
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Episode 194: Arrr, The Sea Hounds of Love be Hunting Me
On the TFT Podcast, Ryan and Matt listen to and discuss Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love.”
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Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Butt Rock
Because the Body of Rock has many anatomical parts.