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Song Exploder Episode 124: Nine Inch Nails

I FUCKING LOVE YOU THE LOVERS😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I LOVE YOUUUUU

pulling yourself briefly back down into the dark void that always tries to seduce you, even now, even when you’ve long known how rotten it really is on the inside of, just in the effort of creating a piece of art. taking a little piece of your old self back with you and constructing yourself a reverse time capsule; embedding the sensations of what once was into one piece of music, just to remember exactly how it felt. and maybe it isn’t cathartic, or maybe the catharsis of it is not so grand you think yourself better off for it. but you’ve made something out of this thing you used to be. you’ve wrestled him into the present and trapped him inside soundwaves. maybe he’ll stay there forever. who knows?

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga is on the latest episode of the ‘Song Exploder’ podcast discussing the making of “Abracadabra"

Check out the full interview at Song Exploder

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (15-21 Jun 2025)

ngl lads (gn) i wish packing a flat you've lived in for 27 years was this easy. i am going thru it. 😤

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 🎧The Beast of Littleton Woods (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #12) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - more low-key adventures with Emily & Florence - the cozy mystery comfort read I really fucking needed this week

😊 War & Peace and the Redemption of Bucky Barnes (ThePirateStorm) - 51K, stucky modern no-powers AU - bucky's a writer, steve's a single dad with a teenage daughter, they have a meet ugly that quickly turns around - enjoyable read, I was quite chuffed I correctly identified the IRL book series that Bucky's is based on

😊 🎧Murder at the English Manor (A Miss Underhay Mystery #20) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Matt get roped in to investigating the disappearance (murder) of a maid from a local estate (whose folks are trying to facilitate a 'Dollar Duchess' marriage and would prefer no unpleasantness)

😊 Fall Into You (Dylan Morrison) - very enjoyable contemp queer romance with a really great meet-ugly, explored a lot about how messy and contradictory and complex people are and also about how fucked up family dynamics are. -

💖💖 +39K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Favorite Things (ann_anotherthing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 17K - more adventures of middle-aged men 😂🥰 I just fucking love this universe/these versions of them (most of it a reread due to a new chapter being added)

Fates (E_Greer) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 22K - a wibbly wobbly timey wimey trip - AN starts "buckle in we’re doing six alternate universes" with a super cool guide on how to read each section (I am making it sound way more complicated than it is! Also it's just a banger fic, so enjoyable. I love these two)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

WIRED | Tech Support - Film Historian Answers Old Hollywood Questions

Murderbot - s1, e6-7

Game Changer - s7, e6

Parlor Room - s1, e5

Um, Actually - s10, e11

D20: Neverafter - "The Trials of Baba Yaga" (s16, e18)

D20: Adventuring Party - "It Happened" (s11, e18)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 1)" (s16, e19)

D20: Adventuring Party - "The Orange Fairy in the Top Hat" (s11, e19)

D20: Neverafter - "The Ending Of All Things (Part 2)" (s16, e20)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Three Cheers for Jesse Harron" (s11, e20)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "The Path Out of Gath" (s26, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Meaty, Meaty Combat " (s21, e2)

D20: Cloudward, Ho! - "Secrets at the South Pole Station" (s26, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Wonder Awaits" (s21, e3)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Materialists

Short Wave - Why Weed's Signature Scent Has Changed Over Time

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, and Worst Bathroom Experiences

Short History Of… - The Spanish Flu

Welcome to Night Vale - Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought

No One Saw It Coming - Where freestyle swimming really comes from

The Sam Sanders Show - Can Faith and Queerness Coexist? (ft. Jeff Hiller)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Life of Chuck

Code Switch - The administration's fight against antisemitism is dividing Jews

⭐ Vibe Check - Everything Comes Back to Love featuring Danez Smith

Switched on Pop - "Manchild" and other songs about male incompetence

Decoder Ring - The Boston Cinematic Universe

Decoder Ring - Decoder Ring Plus | The Boston Accent Is Wicked Complicated

Wild Card - Kyle MacLachlan daydreams about the future

⭐ Song Exploder - Key Change: Shirley Manson on Siouxsie and the Banshees

Shedunnit - Book Club Fact File: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy

99% Invisible - The Red, the Black, and the Green

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Watch This: Pee-Wee As Himself

Short Wave - Why Emotions Run High For Sports Fans

⭐ Endless Thread - Pics or this episode didn't happen

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 28 Years Later And What's Making Us Happy

Short Wave - What Makes South Korea's 'Super Divers' Special?

It's Been a Minute - Welcome to midlife, Millennials. Are you in crisis?

The Sporkful - The Hidden History of Regional Burgers (Reheat)

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Adventure of the Second Stain

Ologies - Aquaculture Ecology (SUSTAINABLE OCEAN FOODS) with Ben Halpern

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #44

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - AO Mailbag: Is It Normal to Share a Checked Bag With Your Boyfriend?

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Music' playlist

[gansey-like]

whoever posted about patrick stump on song exploder changed my life btw. idk how i didn't know about this podcast before but i am so so so into it

[farewell-to-lorien]

Gracie Abrams, by Carlos Lerma, for Song Exploder podcast.

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[nonesuchrecords]

Natalie Merchant is the guest on the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast. She talks with host Hrishikesh Hirway about "Sister Tilly," breaking down the song from her new album, Keep Your Courage. The song was arranged by Gabriel Kahane. You can hear what Merchant had to say here.

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Song Exploder - New Order

New Order tell the story of how they created their song "Blue Monday."

In May 1980, the band Joy Division was devastated by the death of lead singer Ian Curtis. The three remaining band members, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris, decided they would keep making music together, and a few months later, Gillian Gilbert joined them. They called the band New Order.

New Order is one of the most influential bands of the last four decades. Their song “Blue Monday” came out in 1983, and it holds the record for being the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. Rolling Stone put “Blue Monday” on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and Pitchfork included it in its Top 5 Best Songs of the 1980s.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of “Blue Monday,” in this episode, New Order discusses how they created the song. This episode was produced in collaboration with Transmissions, the official New Order and Joy Division podcast produced by Cup & Nuzzle. We’ve put together this story out of the hours and hours of interviews they’ve recorded, along with a new interview I did with Peter Hook. As you’ll hear the four of them explain, nothing about Blue Monday’s success, or really even its existence, was something that they planned for.