“I love this show. It’s like falling in love for the first time, which I only know because I remember falling in love for the first time and this reminds of what it felt like. It makes me want to write M + I in a tree trunk with a heart around it and remember being in LA and all my hopes and...”Read full review »
cdr1242 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/07/20
“Sure saying it’s the best is weird and diminutive but while I’m no professional podcast consumer even considering I have no ability to love even a moment in silence meaning I’ve been listening to NPR then Podcasts non stop since the age of 6, the Organist scratches that itches better than the...”Read full review »
GrindermanJJ via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/25/19
“This is a gem in the ruff. The show is true audio art — a real rarity in podcast landscape that is cluttered with over-produced, ad-filled, true crime trash.”
sio.m via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/14/19
“each thursday night, i go down to my basement, which has a dirt floor. i dig dirt from the hole i started digging months ago. the hole is finally big enough for me crouch within and comfortably rest my chin on the dirt floor. safe and comfortable in the dark and quiet basement, i am alone. next...”Read full review »
callie sieh via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/20/18
“This is the best arts-leaning (somewhat arbitrary descriptor) podcast out there. The sensibilities behind the eclectic programming are impeccable. Highly recommended.”
“Two Years with Franz is one of the best pieces of nonfiction audio I have ever listened to.
It is perfectly constructed and edited. There is even an autobiographical documentary element to the story, which I am normally averse to, but the producer Bianca Giaever weaves it in a way that is still...”Read full review »
piano tape via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/11/18
“Orson Wells whispered into my ear: "You will never be a writer. You will never write anything. Never!" And I just was stunned, and I looked at him, and I said, I said, "You don't know me! You don't know who I really am, you don't know if I will or will not write." ...”Read full review »
Overpanic via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/09/18
“When it focuses on sound and the processes of memory, this is the greatest. But sometimes it's the epitome of hipster navel gazing. But I guess that's par for the course.”Read full review »
Urban Scourge via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/04/18
“New Years Resolution: finally leave reviews for at least your top 50 podcasts. They give you way too much free entertainment. The least you can do is leave them a quick review.
New Years Reality: I listen to 50+ exceptional podcasts. I don’t have time to write that many reviews.
New Years...”Read full review »
Khglynn via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/29/17
“Look, I understand that you need to play ads but suddenly and randomly cutting content to play an ad assumes that users need to be tricked into listening to ads. You spoil the content and you spoil the advertiser’s brand by associating it with being annoying.
I had subscribed to The Organist...”Read full review »
“I first heard of The Organist while listening to 99 percent invisible. Within the first minute of 700 foot mountain, I froze because the hair on back of my neck stood up even though I was drenched with sweat from running from previous episodes of 99.
Clive tells a compelling tale in this...”Read full review »
MormonJordan via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/30/17
“It feels very private, as if I’m doing something that society has always deemed wrong but which is quite satisfying. I’ve been staring in one spot for a long time without focusing on anything, but then I slowly realize that there is a person in that spot. The person is looking at me and thinks...”Read full review »
la vaquita via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/12/17
“High production value, simply a fantastically well-produced podcast! So far I’ve enjoyed this podcast immensely, discovered it through their coverage of Ákos Rózmann.”
“A man claiming to be from The Organist came to the parking lot gate out back. He said he needed access to the building’s electricity meter. We looked at one another through the bars.
“This seems unusual,” I said.
I was out there with my son to get him some fresh air. The boy was a few feet away...”Read full review »
Josh Wilker via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/18/17
“The organist at my parents’ church had severe arthritis, and as a child my job was to flip pages for her. Her hands were so stiff that I also had to pull the stops: clarion, chimney flute, vox humana. Occasionally, when her ankles were bad, I also sat under the bench and pressed the keys of the...”Read full review »
Jordan Jacks via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/25/17
“I met the organist podcast at a house party a few years back. We were both listening to this guy explain how he was conceived in an MMF threeway and how sometimes he becomes so acutely aware of having a skeleton inside him, that he seizes up, unable to communicate. Eventually, that exact thing...”Read full review »
user_namey via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
09/19/17
“You don’t remember your mother. Not really. The memories you have are more like impressions: gentle, gravelly pauses, sotto voce speech with secrets only for you, and a story you didn’t want to stop listening to. And sound effects, oh the sound effects. She could reproduce anything: keyboard...”Read full review »
HyacinthWine via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/16/17
“The organist is the well dressed bespectacled girl you meet at a party who lives in a quasi dream state and sells zines on campus but nonetheless has interesting insights and explores corners of arts and culture you would never have the time / wherewithal to pursue. 5/5”
“Professor Mutfried, tenured Professor at the Goams, died six years ago today. Every year, to mourn his death, I listen to the radio. Professor Mutfried loved the radio. At the start of each intermediate course on Boethius, he played ten minutes of NPR for us. I remember one day in particular,...”Read full review »
Man Houston via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/09/17
“Truth be told, I’ve never heard of the Organist, and don’t know even what a podcast is. I barely live in the 21st Century. My idea of advanced technology is a toilet seat whose trajectory from up to down takes so long to complete, I can pluck my unibrow while waiting for it to happen. Who...”Read full review »
Ethel W. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/05/17
“Ok, Andrew Leland, you got me in your plea at the end of the "The Show about The Show about the Show" that if faithful listeners don't rate or review their favorite podcasts, that they die. And I REALLY don't want the Organist to die! The Organist is quirky, thoughtful, and a...”Read full review »
coskygrl via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/26/17