Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 1: The First 15
What is the most representative comeback song in pop history? Our Do Call It A Comeback season will find out...and we have been here for years, thinking about the philosophical definition of a comebac...
18 Syys 20231h 34min
First-Name Basis, Single No. 2: Jock Jams
It was a winding road from our #FirstNameBasis finale to our favorite jock jams, but we hope y'all ARE ready for this contemplation of sporty hype tracks -- as well as county fairs, Snuffy Smith, Yank...
24 Heinä 202339min
First-Name Basis, Episode 7: The Top 10
Whoooo's number ooooone? (BA BA BAAAAAA!) That's not a spoiler, by the way, so you'll have to listen to our First-Name Basis finale to find out which name song is the most iconic of all time -- and al...
17 Heinä 202352min
First-Name Basis, Episode 6: The Top 20
The rankings only get more challenging as the First-Name Basis season confronts its Top 20 -- as well as iconic pop numbers, Jersey "law," unholy mash-ups of finalist songs, the cease-and-desist lette...
10 Heinä 20231h 10min
First-Name Basis, Episode 5: Multi-Name Songs
Welcome to the intermission of our First-Name Basis season -- in which we're contemplating important songs with more than one name in them, and ranking them, too! And while this ep is dropping in the ...
3 Heinä 20231h
First-Name Basis, Episode 4: The Last 10
We're finishing out the Top 40 in our First-Name Basis season with an all-timer set of 10 songs: all three of the songs your co-hosts and their husbands picked to win the whole season, and the diabeti...
26 Kesä 202347min
First-Name Basis, Episode 3: The Third 10
"Mark and Sarah: why ya buggin'?" Why aren't we buggin' in the third ep of our First-Name Basis season: the weird fade-out during Barry Manilow's "Mandy"-ending glory note, "Mary"-song vote-splitting,...
19 Kesä 202355min
First-Name Basis, Episode 2: The Next 10
The second batch of 10 songs is raising tough questions for our First-Name Basis season, like: Does difficult subject matter preclude a song from moving on? How can you tell if a songwriter has never ...
12 Kesä 202344min
