Screw It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or Whatever

Katie Plattner
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A music podcast with each episode featuring songs selected on a loose theme. Sometimes solo hosted, sometimes featuring guests. Conversational and wide-ranging, this should feel like chatting with your friends about music you're really into.

  1. 08/08/2025

    Unintentionally Funny Lyrics - with Kate Riley

    I'm joined for this episode by my close friend Kate Riley! We each contributed songs whose lyrics strike us as very funny and don't seem to be a joke on purpose (i.e. unintentionally funny). Send us your picks for songs on this theme! Buy Kate's amazing debut novel "Ruth", out 8/19/25!   Songs discussed in this episode: The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (1966) Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly (1966) Drake - Best I Ever Had (2009) Flo Rida - My House (2015) Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U (1985? 1991?) Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly 2095 (1981) Dick Curless - 'Tater Raisin' Man (1966) Neil Sedaka - Going Home To Mary Lou (1961) Pete Shelley - Yesterday's Not Here (1981) Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign (1967) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (2009)

    1h 17m

  2. 06/22/2025

    Same Title, Different Songs - Part 2

    Back again with more songs that have the same titles but otherwise have nothing in common!   Songs discussed in this episode: Dion & The Belmonts - A Teenager In Love (1959) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenager In Love (2009) Arthur Alexander - Soldier of Love (1960) Sade - Soldier of Love (2010) Wye Oak - Holy Holy (2011) Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy (2024) Moondog - Do Your Thing (1978) Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing (2001) Don Cherry, Ray Conniff - Ghost Town (1956) The Specials - Ghost Town (1981) XTC - Helicopter (1979) Deerhunter - Helicopter (2010)

    56 min

  3. 06/14/2025

    Prepositions

    This is a pretty flimsy theme BUT all the songs are good so let's all just cool it. The theme is prepositions. Songs that have prepositions in the title. That's it. Anyway, they're good songs.   Songs discussed in this episode: Viagra Boys - Down In The Basement (2018) Klaus Johann Grobe - Between The Buttons (2014) Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Inside Straight (1973) Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line (1970) Rubblebucket - Came Out Of A Lady (2010) The Toms - Standing In The Shadows (1979) The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1979) Snoh Aalegra - Under The Influence (2016) Vashti Bunyan - I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind (1970) Paul McCartney - Coming Up (1980) Slow Children - Staring At The Ceiling (1981) Shamir - On The Regular (2015)

    55 min

  4. 03/08/2025

    Memento Mori / Spring

    We're all gonna die someday! Also it's almost spring, and that's nice.   Songs discussed in this episode: Arthur Lee - Everybody's Gotta Live (1972) Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (2015) William Onyeabor - Try And Try (1979) Yard Act - 100% Endurance (2022) Tol-Puddle Martyrs - Time Will Come (1967) Viagra Boys - Worms (2018) Paul Williams - The Hell Of It (1974) Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998) La Luz - Sure As Spring (2013) Slow Children - Spring In Fialta (1981) Max Richter - Spring 1 (2012) (2014) Operating Theater - Spring Is Coming With a Strawberry In The Mouth (1986)

    53 min

  5. 02/21/2025

    Handclaps - with Eric D. Johnson

    This is the 50th episode of this podcast! I'm joined by friend Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman) to talk about handclaps. We talk about handclaps in the songwriting and recording process, play some of our favorite songs featuring handclaps, and also have a bunch of digressions about other stuff.   Songs played in this episode (maybe not exactly in this order): The Shins - Kissing the Lipless (2003) Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (1970) Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody (2003) The Routers - Let's Go - Pony (1962) Rose Royce - Car Wash (1976) Boston - Foreplay / Long Time (1976) Erasmo Carlos - Mundo Deserto (1971) The Cure - Close to Me (1985) The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - Eighteen Is over the Hill (1968) Air - La femme d'argent (1998) Alice Coltrane - Govinda Jai Jai (1977) The Meters - Hand Clapping Song (1970)

    1h 37m

  6. 02/10/2025

    Questions

    This episode features all songs whose titles are questions, even though some aren't punctuated as such. There are many songs that would qualify for this theme that aren't included, but I tried to gather a bunch that are all pretty different from one another.   Songs discussed in this episode: Them Two - Am I A Good Man (1967) Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Who Do You Think You're Fooling (1967) Art Fact - Whom Are You Dancing For? (1989) Todd Rundgren - Does Anybody Love You? (1972) Fatlip - What's Up Fatlip? (2000) Duffy Power - Where Am I (1964) Bjork - Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right) (2004) Paul Clayton - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (1960) Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping? (1968) Kim Deal - Are You Mine? (2024) Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing "My Way" (1994) T. Rex - Is It Love? (1971) Bright Eyes - You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (2002) The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love? (2011)

    1 hr

  7. 02/02/2025

    Two-Part Harmony

    Songs in this episode feature two-part harmony for most of the song! Also, they're all good. Hopefully it isn't new information that the songs on this podcast are good.   Songs discussed in this episode: The Beatles - There's A Place (1963) Ween - What Deaner Was Talking About (1994) The B-52's - Topaz (1989) Peter & Gordon - A World Without Love (1965) Unknown Mortal Orchestra - From The Sun (2013) Chad & Jeremy - A Summer Song (1965) The Breeders - Divine Hammer (1993) Doves - M62 Song (2002) The Statler Brothers - Flowers On The Wall (1966) Rihanna - Never Ending (2016) Iron & Wine - Jezebel (2005) Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes (2009)

    49 min

  8. 01/21/2025

    Hey, This Sounds Like That

    Here are pairs of songs that share some feature (melody, chord progression, instrumentation, etc) and therefore remind me of each other. I hope that when you hear them you also go "hey!" or maybe just "oh yeah, okay", that works too.   Songs discussed in this episode: The Tonettes - I Gotta Know (1965) Yumi Arai - Ruju no Dengon (ルージュの伝言) (1975) Elliott Smith - Sweet Adeline (1998) Ty Segall - My Room (2024) Tears for Fears - Mad World (1982) R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People (1991) The Kinks - Wicked Annabella (1968) Elliott Smith - Speed Trials (1997) Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney - Monkberry Moon Delight (1971) Brian Protheroe - Fly Now (1974) The Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm (1993) Duncan Dhu - En Algun Lugar (1987) Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em (2010) Charli xcx - Sympathy Is A Knife (2024)

    57 min
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A music podcast with each episode featuring songs selected on a loose theme. Sometimes solo hosted, sometimes featuring guests. Conversational and wide-ranging, this should feel like chatting with your friends about music you're really into.

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