All Songs Considered: Even more songs to calm the nerves
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Note: This episode originally ran in April, 2025
Artists and songs featured on this episode:
(00:00) Intro
(02:20) The Choir: “You Don’t Have To Smile,” from ‘Translucent’
(05:58) Orbital Patterns: “Can’t Tell If I’m Awake,” from ‘Extended Impostor Syndrome’
(10:11) Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alvo Noto: “Logic Moon,” From ‘Insen’
(15:46) Lea Bertucci: “Vapours,” From ‘Of Shadow And Substance’
(20:25) Hayden Pedigo: “Long Pond Lily,” From ‘I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away’
(25:57) Max Richter: “All Human Beings,” from ‘Voices’
(31:17) Wayne Shorter: “Tarde,” From ‘Native Dancer’
(36:15) Mabe Fratti: “El Sol Sigue Ahí,” From ‘Pies Sobre La Tierra’
(41:08) Ida: “Don’t Get Sad,” from ‘Will You Find Me?’
(46:10) David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfonietta: “Lento,” from Henryk Górecki’s ‘Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 - Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs’
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| 0:00.0 | I saw this headline recently. It said, people are drinking like it's 20-20. |
| 0:05.5 | We are? That's what the headline said. People are drinking like it's 20-20. And I shared this with a friend of mine, and he said, that's awesome. |
| 0:14.5 | And I said, I don't think it's actually supposed to be a good thing. |
| 0:18.3 | No, I'm drinking, I mean, for me, I'm drinking far less |
| 0:22.1 | than I ever had in my adulthood. Is that intentional? Yeah, it's intentional. A good friend of |
| 0:29.3 | mine said, it's always a good idea to reassess your relationship with alcohol. Just kind of take |
| 0:35.5 | a step back and like, how do I interact with this substance? Yeah. Does it help me? Does it hurt me? Does it hinder me? Yeah. You know, I've been thinking a lot about it the last couple years and I, you know, I still have a beer like on a Friday night, but that's about it. You're being very good. Is that how you stay grounded then right now? Are you? I think so. I think it's like having routines. |
| 0:57.0 | That's true. |
| 0:58.0 | And having things that I do regularly and then allowing yourself deviations when it's just |
| 1:05.0 | the crisis calls for it, you know? |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. I think the problem is every day feels like a... |
| 1:10.0 | It feels like an exception. |
| 1:11.9 | We're going to break that rule today too. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah, well, some days, you know, I do work for a journalism company, |
| 1:18.3 | but some days I do try to tune out what's happening in the world, |
| 1:22.5 | but, you know, sometimes you just can't help it. |
| 1:25.4 | You know, around this time last year, we did an episode of All Songs Considered called |
| 1:29.3 | Songs to Calm the Nerves, which was exactly what it sounds like. |
| 1:34.3 | It was an extended playlist of grindcore and death metal. |
| 1:37.3 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:39.3 | And then a bit later, last fall or so, we did more songs to calm the nerves. |
| 1:45.6 | And here we are, we're making it a trilogy, even more songs, to calm the nerves. |
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