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• Put it in a Letter

  This is our love letter to the lost art of letter-writing…in songs. Consider it a carefully folded note passed across time. Signed, sealed, AND delivered by the Postal Service, or by hand. Song as letter, or letter as song, whatever the concept, these musical missives hit our hearts in ways an email can't. VIDEOS XTC: Dear God (1986)Lulu: To Sir, With Love (1967) EXTRAS ‘Dear God’: The violent protests triggered by XTC’s controversial single - Far Out Magazine The Blasphemous Story of XTC & "Dear God" I New British Canon - Trash Theory YouTubeDear God · Todd Rundgren cover SNL Obama Tribute - Cecily Strong and Sasheer Zamata singing To Sir, With Love (2017)One Song, Jimi Hendrix: Purple HazeLulu performs Shout (1965)Lulu performs Boom Bang-a-Bang for Eurovision (1969)Lulu performs The Man With the Golden Gun (1975)To Sir With Love: Representing Education and Race RelationsConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.blog (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Scary Songs

  We’re getting into the spooky spirit talking about the scariest songs in our music libraries. While Monster Mash and Thriller do make an appearance, we’re clawing our way past the Halloween clichés to scream about the songs that really get under our skin and linger like the breath of death.  VIDEOS Die Antwoord: Baby’s on Fire (2012)The Zombies: Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)SPECIAL TREAT (NO TRICKS HERE)SCARY SONG LISTENER COLLAB PLAYLIST - Share YOUR scariest songs...if you DARE!!EXTRASJon Savage on song: The Zombies – Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)Die Antwoord - Umshini Wam (Short Film, Directed by Harmony Korine, 2011)Die Antwoord: I Fink You Freeky (2012)Chappie Featurette (2015)Pitchfork’s Review of Die Antwoord’s Tension (4.2)Zef: The Die Antwoord Story (2024)Die Antwoord Accused of Child AbuseConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.blog (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Go Corporate!

  Your eyes are not deceiving you–we are indeed going corporate! At least for this episode, wherein we reflect on the strange sorcery of songs from commercials: the ones that, for a moment, make you forget you're a cog in the sparkling machine of late capitalism. Sure, they were used to sell us stuff, but we still kind of love them.VIDEOS Geico Caveman Ad featuring “Remind Me” by Röyksopp (2006)Remind Me: Röyksopp (2001)Volkswagen, Trio, Da Da Da (1997)Trio: Da Da Da (1982)EXTRASApple iPod Commercial feat. the Ting TingsTony Hale in VW CommercialVolkswagen, Nick Drake, Pink Moon Parker Posey Gap Commercial Michael Jackson Pepsi Generation Gap Khaki SwingThe California Raisins, I Heard it Through the GrapevineThe Ellen Coming Out Controversy for AdvertisersConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.blog (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Decadence

  What makes a song decadent? Is it the banging build-up giving way to a glorious release? The urge to don a banana skirt or surrender to collapse in a bathtub of brandy?From glitter to dust and lugubrious Balkan brassy indie waltzes, we wade into the lush layers of musical decadence. Melancholy meets spectacle. Longing meets the dance floor. Find out why surrender sometimes feels like survival, and whether we’re living in a decadent moment ourselves.VIDEOS Babylon Berlin Soundtrack, Severija and the  Moka Efti Orchestra:  Zu Asche Zu Staub (2017)Prenzlauerberg, Beirut (2006)EXTRASZu Asche Zu Staub Scene from Babylon Berlin (English Subtitles)Weimar Decadence - Guardian Piece About the Real Moka Efti Nantes Accordion Tutorial (this is from 2012, but Moshe Zuchter has a lot more tutorials with far better quality and more Beirut!) Connect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.blog (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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• Cartoon Theme Songs

  Ah, the joy of an animated TV show. Whether watching a Saturday morning cartoon, something not quite suitable for children, or the classics from the days of yore, you can probably bet on one thing: you're gonna hear a bangin' theme song. From cool-cat jazz on the prowl to a bumbling, cyborg sleuth, we celebrate the cartoon earworms you can’t shake.VIDEOS Pink Panther Theme SongInspector Gadget Theme SongEXTRASSkeleton Dance - Silly SymphoniesPink Panic - Episode of Pink PantherPink, Plunk, PlinkThe History of Inspector GadgetAndy Kaufman’s Mighty MouseThe Social Network  - Winklevoss Brothers LoseWait Til Your Father Gets HomeSAMPLING GADGETDoug E. Fresh and Slick Rick: The ShowBad Boys (feat k love): Bad BoysConnect with us on Instagram (to share your song picks or troll us), Spotify (for our ever-growing playlist), and Stereothematica.blog (for extra fun)! If you like what you’re hearing, please subscribe, and if you love it, a five-star rating and review would send us into the exosphere of excitement. And email us at [email protected]! We will write back!

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