Perfect Song: 'A Girl Like You' by Edwyn Collins with Rob Harvilla

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4.4 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This episode, we’ve asked our podfather Rob Harvilla to pick his perfect 90s British Rock song: “A Girl Like You” by Edwyn Collins. Listen along as Yasi and Rob cover the birth of indie pop, Edwyn Collins’ Orange Juice days, and his earlier solo career, right up to the release of his third album Gorgeous George as well as the Empire Records soundtrack, which helped launch this song into the rock stratosphere. CREDITS: Host: Yasi Salek @yasisalek Guest: Rob Harvilla @robharvilla Producer: Liz Sánchez Audio Editor: Adrian Bridges Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, it's not that confusing. I'm Rob Harvilla, host of the podcast 60 songs that
0:05.6	explained the 90s, except we did 120 songs. And now we're back with the 2000s. I refuse to say
0:12.0	aughts, 2000 to 2009. The Strokes, Rihanna, Jalo, Kanye, sure. And now the show is called 60
0:19.3	songs that explain the 90s,
0:21.1	colon the 2000s.
0:22.9	Wow.
0:23.7	That's too long a title
0:24.7	for me to say anything else right now.
0:26.6	Just trust me.
0:27.7	That's 60 songs that explain the 90s
0:29.7	colon the 2000s,
0:31.4	preferably on Spotify.
0:41.0	What's with this band anyway?
0:44.8	I don't get it. Can you please explain?
0:48.8	Wait, like, bands played.
0:53.6	Never heard this band in my life.
0:56.0	Oh, you haven't? I love that. Really? Why?
1:00.0	Yeah, I love this song. Oh, I don't know that one.
1:03.0	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain. I really hate this band!
1:05.0	Whatever, I'm their biggest fan.
1:07.0	Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain. Bansplain. Bansplain band splain band splain bandplain bandplain band explain band
1:13.1	band plane
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