Bonus Episode 42 - ABA Inside Track Origins: Your Ex-lover Is Dead
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate our 10-year podcast anniversary, we take a look back to the days before Rob, Diana, and Jackie talked about ABA over the airwaves and just talked about songs with Rob's first ever podcast "They're Playing Our Song". Each Friday we'll be highlighting the trio's first ever podcasts recorded. Look how far they've come!
Originally Posted: 9/14/2015
This week, it's Jackie's first podcast ever where she talks with Rob about her favorite song, "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" by Stars.
FUN FACT: Listen in at around the 20 minute mark to hear the first public mention of the three of us planning to make a podcast about ABA. I can't remember if we'd actually PLANNED anything yet or if Jackie was just willing the show into existence. In any case six months later, ABA Inside Track premiered.
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| 0:00.0 | When there's nothing left to burn, you have to, they're playing our song. |
| 0:22.6 | This is your host, Rob Perry, and I'm here with the very Hey everyone and welcome to they're playing our song. |
| 0:39.1 | This is your host, Rob Perry, and I'm here with a very special guest, Miss Jackie McDonald. |
| 0:43.4 | Hi, Jackie. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi, Rob. |
| 0:45.1 | Thank you so much for coming on the show today. |
| 0:48.0 | And Jackie, you brought a song, one of your songs, to talk about. |
| 0:52.4 | So what song did you bring us today? |
| 0:53.9 | I brought your ex-lover is Dead by Stars. |
| 0:57.0 | By Stars. Now, Stars is an indie rock, for those of you who don't know, is an indie rock band |
| 1:01.6 | from Canada, which I guess it's its own genre, Canadian indie rock versus American indie rock. |
| 1:06.1 | It is. They do sound very different, I think. And this is from their album, Set Yourself |
| 1:10.6 | On Fire from 2005. This is the first song on the album, which is weird because there's actually a song called Set Yourself on Fire. I assumed they'd do that one. So you got that weird old, like, James Earl Jones sounded too. It's starting it off with the... It's my favorite part, actually. Who, do you know who that is? I don't know. |
| 1:29.4 | I think it might be actually one... I think it might be the drummer. Oh, okay. He sounds like creepy and old. Yeah, I think he might be creepy and old. Well, if you're in a Canadian band, I feel like you could just be like, I started a band. I'm in my 50s and I sing like young people music. Right. |
| 1:41.8 | I think here in America, if you're 50 or 60, you probably wrote something terrible in the 70s. |
| 1:45.6 | You're out. |
| 1:46.2 | Ario Speedwagon kind of bands. young people music. Right. I think here in America, if you're 50 or 60, you probably wrote |
| 1:44.3 | something terrible in the 70s. |
| 1:45.6 | You're out. |
| 1:46.2 | Ario Speedwagon kind of bands. |
| 1:48.2 | But anyway, |
| 1:48.5 | let's not talk about those. |
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