Ryan and Matt are joined by Rachel D to discuss Taylor Swift’s reputation and Taylor Swift’s reputation. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Taylor Swift, reputation reputation: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Taylor Swift, reputation Reclaiming the Snake #reputaylurking #reputation  pic.twitter.com/JhZNUZ7MxK — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 14, 2017 #reputaylurking #reputation  pic.twitter.com/pOEpn6Dk5p — Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 14,...

Ryan and Matt are joined by Rachel D to consider Kesha’s return to recording on Rainbow, and wonder if this is the most Kesha Kesha album that Kesha can Kesha. They also offer a typology of piano ballads, and a diagnosis of karaoke pathologies. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Kesha, Rainbow Rainbow: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Kesha, Rainbow, Pebe Sebert Reviews: P4k Episode 288: I’m a Mother-Having Woman originally appeared on Overthinking It, the...

Ryan and Matt wonder if they’ve been stealth Antonoffed, but the answer is decidedly no: They are listening to Native Invader, the latest from Tori Amos, and the album that brings her into the Three Episode Club, an honor she shares with The Mountain Goats. They talk about the album’s delightful lyrics, its distinctive sound, it’s sneakily paradoxical politics. They’re wide awoke, it’s morning. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Tori Amos, Native Invader Native...

Ryan and Rachel D lace up their plimsolls and head into the dream punk mosh pit with Antisocialites, the sophomore album by Alvvays. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Alvvays, Antisocialites Antisocialites: Amazon, Apple Lyrics Wikipedia: Alvvays, Antisocialites, Plimsolls, Madeira Cake  Reviews: P4k Episode 286: Circle of Malcontents originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve....

Wolfman Ryan and Wolfman Matt survey the Wolf Band landscape, and settle upon Wolf Parade’s latest album, Cry Cry Cry, an exploration of dreams and kings. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Wolf Parade, Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry Cry: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Wolf Parade, Cry Cry Cry Review: P4k Episode 285: Pretty Tame for a Wolf Band originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve....

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel gather in the parking lot of the ghost town which used to be a mall and talk Modest Mouses’s The Lonesome Crowded West. The record may only sort of be “real country music,” but at least Cowboy Dan is on hand to help navigate the cowboy scene. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West The Lonesome Crowded West: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Modest Mouse, The Lonesome Crowded West Re-release reviews: P4k,...

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D time-travel back to the 90s-00s taint (the Starr Report through 9/11 period) to listen to Pavement’s Brighten the Corners. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Pavement, Brighten the Corners Brighten the Corners: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Pavement, Brighten the Corners Review: P4k Episode 283: Poetry in Banal Things originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't...

Ryan and Matt crank the volume in their jeep and cruise to the polyglot heteroglossia of Wyclef Jean’s solo debut, Wyclef Jean presents The Carnival featuring Refugee Allstars, his follow-up to 1996’s smash hit Fugees record, The Score, and which they decide is simultaneously ahead of its time and a lost treasure. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Wyclef Jean, Wyclef Jean presents The Carnival featuring Refugee Allstars The Carnival: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipeida:...

Ryan is joined by Rachel D and Jordan to discuss Dr. Octagonecologyst, the debut album by Dr. Octagon, who is definitely an extraterrestrial surgeon from Jupiter and not a hip hip trio made up of rapper Kool Keith, producer Dan the Automator, and turntablist DJ Qbert. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecologyst Dr. Octogonecologyst: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonecologyst Episode 281: First, Do Harm originally...

Matt and Ryan explore the many levels of irony of non-networked self on one of the best rap albums of the nineties. IN other words, they are talking about Fiona Apple’s seminal 1996 debut, Tidal. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Fiona Apple, Tidal Tidal: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Fiona Apple, Tidal Review: P4k Retrospective Prozac Nation Episode 280: The Special Technique of Emotional Shadowboxing originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting...

Ryan and Matt have a conversation about the multi-platinum Spice, the 1996 debut from the Spice Girls, which is frankly shocking in its sincerity. Spice advocates for pro-social, emotionally adaptive, and mature relations among groups of friends, between lovers, and with oneself. Indeed, it seems that everything we learned about love, we learned from the Spice Girls. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Syllabus: Spice Girls, Spice Spice: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipeida: Spice...

Ryan and Matt are separated by Punk Correspondent Rachel D and special guest Theorist Jordan Stokes as they discover Bristol trip-hop pioneer Tricky’s debut album Maxinquaye. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Tricky, Maxinquaye Maxinquaye: Amazon Lyrics Wikipedia: Tricky, Maxinquaye, Trip hop, Bristol Episode 278: More a Hop that Trips than a Trip that Hops originally appeared on...

Ryan and Matt revert to a rivalry every bit as antagonistic as Noel and Liam Gallagher, whose breakthrough second album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory is the subject of this episode. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory (What’s the Story) Morning Glory: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory, Britpop,...

Ryan and Matt are joined by punk correspondent and hot Garbage enthusiast Rachel to discuss the quartet’s 1995 debut, an album that synthesized every trend in two decades of rock music except the one you’d most expect. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Garbage, Garbage Garbage: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Garbage, Garbage Episode 276: Garbage In, Garbage Out originally...

Is ska dead? Is ska a word? Is ska punk? Is ska reggae? Is ska coming back? These questions and more as Ryan, Matt, and punk correspondent Rachel examine No Doubt’s commercial breakthrough, Tragic Kingdom. Slip into your bondage pants and find the sweet spot on the grind/mosh continuum: we meet this album’s energy with a great deal energy of our own. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus:...

Ryan and Matt are joined by Rachel D to listen to Alanis Morissette’s hit debut album Jagged Little Pill, which is either more or less surprising than you recall. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill Jagged Little Pill: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill Episode 274: You Left This Mess. Bless This Mess....

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel D clip in for a fitness class in social consciousness, led by Fugazi and their pivotal album Red Medicine. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Fugazi, Red Medicine Red Medicine: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics, especially the annotations on “Fell, Destroyed” Wikipedia: Fugazi, Red Medicine Christgau on Fugazi “Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Butt Rock” from Overthinking...

Ryan and Matt Superunknown, trying to make sense of its off-kilter aspects and its relentless despair. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Soundgarden, Superunknown Superunknown: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Soundgarden, Reissue Review: P4k Rock Swings by Paul Anka Episode 272: Spoonmen of the World, Unite originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular...

Ryan and Matt rekindle the bromance, but their profound bond is nowhere near the near-telepathic connection shared by the sisters of Haim, whose album Something to Tell You they discuss. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Haim, Something to Tell You Something to Tell You: Amazon iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Haim, Something to Tell You Review: P4k “Haim Break Down Every Single Song on...

Matt and Mark bust out the piano and the guitar and give a history of the last decade in pop music through one of its leading lights, Taylor Swift. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Episode 270: Band Practice originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]

Matt is joined by special guest Jordan, who has a crazy idea: let’s listen to the songs from Disney’s Frozen and Moana as though they were two EPs of pop (?) songs. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Frozen and Moana Frozen: Amazon, iTunes Moana: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics: Frozen, Moana Wikipedia: Frozen, Moana Overthinking It Podcast 440: “The Moana-Myth” TFT Podcast 189: “Cell Phones Aren’t...

Ryan, Matt, and Rachel follow Lorde through the Melodrama, and come out the other side knowing the true party is within. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Lorde, Melodrama Melodrama: Amazon, iTunes Lyrics Wikipedia: Lorde, Melodrama Review: P4k “Lorde Just Confirmed That She Is Onion Rings Worldwide And I’m Shook” Supercut of Grunts Episode 268: After the Party It’s Crying in the...

Ryan and Mark listen to and discuss Chuck Berry’s Chuck, with the aid of Mark’s six string teaching tool. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Chuck Berry, Chuck Chuck Amazon, iTunes Lyrics (partial) Chuck Berry, Chuck, “Johnny B. Goode” Reviews: Christgau, P4k, Consequence of Sound Episode 267: The Johnny B. Goodiverse originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting...

Ryan, Rachel, and Matt find something to appreciate about Halsey’s hopeless fountain kingdom, even outside the notional spin studio of the mind. Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: Halsey, hopeless fountain kingdom https://www.instagram.com/p/BU0y9BaD1M2/ Halsey, hopeless fountain kingdom: Amazon, Apple Lyrics Wikipedia: Halsey, hopeless fountain kingdom Reviews: NY Times,...

Ryan and Matt determine once and for all who is the professor and who is the text in a head-to-head match-up of break albums from exes and ex-collaborators David Longstreth (The Dirty Projectors) and Amber Coffman (City of No Reply). Download Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps Contact Us Email us (203) 285-6401 call/text TFT Podcast on Facebook @tftpodcast Syllabus: The Dirty Projectors, The Dirty Projectors; Amber Coffman, City of No Reply The Dirty Projectors: Amazon, iTunes City of No...