Tag: perfect pop
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Episode 2368: Perfect Pop: Dan Auerbach ‘Waiting On A Song’
Patrick was perusing the Perfect Pop Pantheon recently and was surprised to find that Dan Auerbach’s “Waiting On A Song” was not included. He moved to rectify that (and discovered it was also Dan Auerbach’s birthday. Happy Birthday Dan!).
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Episode 2329: Perfect Pop: Walk Away Renee
Paul Hayden gets in touch with a submission for the Perfect Pop Pantheon. His selection is an unforgettable tune by New York City band The Left Banke, released in 1966: “Walk Away Renee.”
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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.