Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

What starts as a simple discussion of Belinda Carlisle's "Heaven is a Place on Earth" evolves into a deeper (and weirder) chat about girl groups, terrible French, and the perfect time to be perfectly ...

31 Aug 202034min

To celebrate our 200th episode (!!), we're ranking Cher's 10 most popular songs. That means we get to talk about everything from her dark-and-stormy story songs to her trendsetting dance classics to t...

24 Aug 20201h 18min

We have a jones for U2's "One," a deeply moving song that helps us get past some of the things we find exhausting about Bono. After talking about the song's history and its ability to sustain multiple...

17 Aug 202036min

We feel like VERY cool cats as we discuss Dean Martin's "Ain't That a Kick in Head.. We also feel like discussing masculine archetypes, cummerbunds, and whoever the hell Peter Lawford might be. Our in...

10 Aug 202028min

Welcome to the first episode of our new music game show, Mark and Sarah Quiz About Songs! Play along with three of our listeners as they try to guess the hits of 1991. We also save plenty of time to t...

3 Aug 202049min

Look, we're not saying that Patty Griffin makes the perfect music for your tailgating party, but we ARE saying that her song "Making Pies" epitomizes her gift for condensing an entire life into four m...

27 Juli 202035min

The legendary "Ladies First" gets us talking about how Queen Latifah can apparently do everything, and how both she and co-star Monie Love were fully formed artists from the jump. We also discuss duet...

20 Juli 202020min

Because we believe in angels, we're talking about Dolly Parton. More specifically, we're talking about seven of her less-remembered songs that deserve more attention, including a startling ballad from...

13 Juli 202050min