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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Presents NEM#195: Nicholas Tremulis Reads Better Books

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Nick has fronted 10+ carefully arranged solo albums since 1985 in various styles from R&B to Latin to alt-country.

We discuss "Amanda and the God’s Honest Truth" from Rarified World (2021), "Buffalo Man" from Little Big Songs (2008), and "River of Love" from More Than Truth (1986). End song: "Super Human Love" from For the Baby Doll (2013). Intro: "Heartbeat Getting Stronger" from Nicholas Tremulis (1985). Follow @NickTremulis1.

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh America's Number One Meal Kit.

0:14.4

We're listening to Nicod Lee's Amateur Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

0:18.4

My name is Mark Linton-Mire. My guest for episode 195 is Nicholas Tremulus.

0:24.2

He's released 10 solo albums plus a few collaborations since 1982.

0:29.1

You're right now hearing heartbeat getting stronger from his self-titled debut album from 1985.

0:35.3

We're going to be talking about his most recent album, Rarified World, from 2021 by Nicolus Tremulus

0:41.4

and the prodigals. The song is Amanda and the Gods Honest Truth that we'll look back to his 2008

0:47.9

album Little Big Songs for the song called Buffalo Man. Then all the way back to his 1986 album

0:54.5

More than Truth, the song is called River of Love. We'll conclude by listening to a 2010

1:00.2

single Superhuman Love by the Nicolus Tremulus Orchestra and also showed up on a 2013 album for

1:07.5

the Baby Doll. For more information you can look up Nicolus on SoundCloud or Facebook.

1:13.1

For more about this podcast see Nicod Lee examined at music.com.

1:17.2

Make sure you're subscribed directly to the Nicod Lee examined music podcast feed.

1:22.0

And while you're subscribing to that please leave a nice rating and review.

1:26.0

Finally if you want to support my efforts you can go to patreon.com,

1:29.7

slash Nicod Lee examined music and sign up for my ad free feed which also gets you my detailed

1:35.4

song breakdown episode notes.

1:40.1

So I will play a little bit of something I remembered from my youth that has a style that we're

1:44.6

not otherwise going to talk about. Heart beginning stronger from your first album 1985.

1:49.5

Insane. I was playing for somebody else a clip of one of those first two albums and then some of

1:54.8

your more recent stuff and just could not believe that it was the same person. Was it just the

1:59.5

major label influence because the 1982 single you shared with me does not have that super 80s

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