PEL Presents NEM#230: Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500) Waxes Poetic

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dean has released about 20 albums, starting with three '88-'90 with Galaxie 500, then he started fresh in New York as Luna, releasing seven albums and some EPs through 2005 (plus a later reunion), then continued with his Luna bassist and now spouse Britta Phillips as Dean and Britta for five albums, interspersed with now four albums under his own name and other miscellaneous projects.

We discuss "We're Not Finished Yet" (and listen at the end to "The Cloud Is Coming" from That's the Price of Loving Me (2025), "Love Is Colder Than Death" from Emancipated Hearts (2013), and "23 Minutes in Brussels" by Luna from Penthouse (1995). Intro: "Strange" by Galaxie 500 from On Fire (1989). More at deanwareham.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.
0:08.2	My guest for episode 230 is singer-songwriter, guitarist Dean Wareham.
0:13.7	He was born in New Zealand, but then moved to New York City still as a child and went to school with his future Galaxy 500 bandmates. You're right now hearing
0:22.6	the song Strange from their second album On Fire, 1989. After releasing three albums 88 through 90,
0:30.6	Dean broke up that band and started his own Luna, which released seven studio albums before
0:37.2	breaking up in 2005.
0:39.4	He has since released five albums as Dean and Britta with his wife,
0:44.5	Britta Phillips, who was in Luna playing bass for their last couple of albums.
0:48.7	He released his first album under his own name in 2013 and has now just released his fourth.
0:56.0	That's the price of Loving Me. We're going to talk about the song, We're not finished yet from that album. Then look back to love
1:00.7	is colder than death from that first solo album, Emancipated Hearts, then look back to 23
1:05.9	minutes in Brussels from Luna's 1995 album Penthouse and will conclude by listening to The Cloud is
1:12.5	Coming, another from the new album. For more information, please see Dean Wareham.com.
1:18.4	For more about this podcast, see Nakedly ExaminedMusic.com. And to support the effort, get your
1:23.6	episodes ad free and get my detailed notes on these songs.
1:27.9	Go to patreon.com slash nakedly examined music.
1:41.3	I will play a little bit of Strange by Galaxy 500 from On Fire, their second album from 1989.
1:47.6	We're going to get pretty quickly to the new stuff.
1:50.2	I would normally ask for sort of an outline.
1:52.5	How do we get from there to here?
1:53.9	But I've just spent many days reading this black postcards, your memoir.
1:58.5	So I at least know the story up to 2005 that we had a few Galaxy
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