Tag: perfect pop
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Episode 2262: Perfect Pop: Hank Williams ‘(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and to wrap up the series, he goes to an all-time classic from 1951: Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys doing “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle).”
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Episode 2261: Perfect Pop: The Carter Family ‘Single Girl, Married Girl’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and he ventures back to what some scholars call the “Big Bang” of modern country music: The 1927 Bristol Sessions. The Carter Family’s “Single Girl, Married Girl” goes into the Perfect Pop Hall of Fame in this episode.
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Episode 2260: Perfect Pop: Deana Carter ‘Strawberry Wine’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and today he turns to an artist whose debut single became a number-one hit in the summer of 1996: Deana Carter’s “Strawberry Wine.”
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Episode 2259: Perfect Pop: George Jones and Tammy Wynette ‘We’re Not the Jet Set’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and what better place to start than with the First Couple of Country Music, George Jones and Tammy Wynette?
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Episode 2253: Perfect Pop – Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
Jim inducts “I Wanna Be Loved” by the Heartbreakers into the Perfect Pop Pantheon. And makes a bold claim.
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Episode 2233: Perfect Pop: The Dream Syndicate – Halloween
Patrick takes a stab (see what we did there) at finding a song perfect as a Halloween tune and perfect as pop.
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Episode 2178: Perfect Pop: Joe Walsh “Life of Illusion”
Patrick inducts an earworm from the early 1980’s, Joe Walsh’s “Life of Illusion.” The song is the fifth track on Joe’s fifth solo album, There Goes the Neighborhood, and was co-written by multi-instrumentalist Kenny Passarelli.
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Episode 2113: Perfect Pop: Waco Brothers “Death of Country Music”
It’s been a long week, so how about a little Perfect Pop to send us into the weekend? Patrick inducts a beautifully ragged country rock tune from the Waco Brothers.
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Episode 2083: Perfect Pop: Spiritualized ‘Cool Waves’
We close out the week with a dose of Perfect Pop. Patrick inducts “Cool Waves” by Spiritualized, from their mind-blowing 1997 album Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. It’s a beautiful song that may even have the power to help cure the common cold.
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Episode 1987: Perfect Pop: Fairground Attraction, Todd Rundgren, Billy Bragg
Belly up to the bar for another round of Perfect Pop! Today, Jay Igancio and Kurt Gallagher induct songs into the Perfect Pop pantheon, specifically Fairground Attraction’s “Perfect,” Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” and Billy Bragg’s “The Saturday Boy.”