Perfect Sunday morning albums

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Whether you prefer solitude, get-togethers with family or friends, or steeling yourself for the week to come, we've got the perfect album to score your early Sunday hours.

Featured artists and albums:
1. Miles Davis: 'Kind of Blue'
2. Astrud Gilberto: 'The Astrud Gilberto Album'
3. The Congos: 'Heart of the Congos'
4. Madredeus: 'O Espírito da Paz'
5. Laurie Spiegel: 'The Expanding Universe'
6. BAD OPERATION: 'BAD OPERATION'
7. Django Reinhardt: '1937'
8. Tirzah: 'Devotion'
9. Margo Guryan: 'Take a Picture'
10. V/A: 'Worried Now, Won't Be Worried Long: Alan Lomax's "Southern Journey," 1959–1960'
11. Electrelane: 'The Power Out'
12. Woo: 'Into The Heart Of Love'
13. St. Germain: 'Tourist'

All Songs Considered 25th anniversary segment: Our No. 1 songs from 2011

Weekly reset: Bells ringing at Duomo di Firenze, Florence, Italy

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:00.6	Oh, Hazel.
0:01.6	Oh, Hazel, I watched, well, I tried to watch Long Legs last night, and I fell asleep.
0:06.5	Don't watch it, Robin. It's not good.
0:08.6	I'm going to do this entire episode in the voice of Long Legs.
0:11.7	He'sle.
0:13.5	That's the voice?
0:14.7	That's awful.
0:16.7	Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it is like Tiny Tim.
0:20.2	He's giving, like like Tiny Tim. He's giving like Tiny Tim.
0:21.7	No.
0:22.6	Yeah, that's the five.
0:23.9	Tip two, three to two lips.
0:26.7	What album do you want to play next, Hazel?
0:29.8	Yeah.
0:30.3	This is actually so scary.
0:33.3	All right.
0:34.2	Is that the intro to the show?
0:35.8	I know.
0:36.8	When does the intro happen?
0:40.0	Are we doing it?
0:40.9	Right.
	...

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