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Mon. 10/25 - Music That Gives You Chills, and Why It Does

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The countercultural witchcraft music of the 1960s, and a study exploring what it is about certain songs that give us a spine-tingling chill. Plus, elephants in Mozambique have evolved to be born without tusks. And the guy who discovered a budget hack for spending just $150 on meals all year: eat every meal at Six Flags. Sponsor: NetSuite, netsuite.com/kottke Links: 13 Vintage Halloween Songs from the 1910's, 20's, & 30's (History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday, YouTube) A Look Back at America's Psychedelic Countercultural Witch Music (Atlas Obscura) The Munsters - At Home With The Munsters - Vinyl LP (Rough Trade) Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist (Quartz) Songs To Give You Chills playlist (Quartz, Spotify) Tuskless Elephants Escape Poachers, but May Evolve New Problems (NY Times) Poaching drove the evolution of tusk-free elephants (Ars Technica) Meet the Guy Who Spends Just $150 a Year to Eat All His Meals at Six Flags (Mel Magazine) Iron-stomached man discovers savings benefits of eating meals at a Six Flags par (A/V Club) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird today, the countercultural witchcraft music of the 1960s, and a study

0:49.0

exploring what it is about certain songs that give us a spine-tingling chill.

0:54.9

Plus, elephants in Mozambique have evolved to be born without tusks.

1:00.7

And the guy who discovered a budget hack for spending just $150 on meals all year.

1:07.9

Eat every meal at Six Flags.

1:13.3

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:22.4

There's a line in the TV show Parks and Recreation when the archetypal cynical hipster intern April Ludgate claims that the only music she listens to is German death reggae and Halloween sound effect records

1:29.6

from the 1950s. And Bet Midler. The joke works because it's so ridiculous, but I am alarmed to report

1:37.5

that I am quickly becoming someone who listens predominantly to Halloween sound effect records from the

1:43.3

1950s. I go a bit more broad

1:45.9

throughout the 20th century, and all right, it's not all just sound effects, but all of the

1:51.5

vintage songs and records are heavy on the sound effects. You'd be surprised how many videos

1:57.0

there are on YouTube in which people have compiled Halloween songs from various

2:00.9

eras going all the way back to the 1910s.

2:04.7

And then of course when Kraft recordings released a bright orange pumpkin-shaped vinyl

2:09.6

record of the soundtrack to It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, you know I had to get

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