Slay Bells, All Year Long

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This winter season unwrap a deep dive through a pop subgenre of monumental importance: non-holiday songs that feature sleigh bells, from Bonnie Tyler to Nas, On Side B, we rebroadcast our episode on Mariah Carey's classic "All I Want for Christmas Is You"...and more sleigh bells. Featuring: •The Beach Boys - God Only Knows •Gustav Mahler - 4th Symphony, I •Michael Jackson - Jam •Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart •Miles Davis - On the Corner •Nas - Halftime •Kygo ft. Conrad Sewell - Firestone •Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you drive a Chevy electric vehicle, you're getting more than a way to get from point A to point B.
0:06.0	You're saying goodbye to gas stations and how low to open roads.
0:09.0	With the growing network of public charging stations, you'll be able to charge your EV while you shop, work, or do whatever you want to be doing with your time.
0:17.0	Chevy is making EVs for everyone, everywhere.
0:20.0	Go to chevrelay.com slash electric to learn more.
0:31.0	Welcome to Switched on Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
0:33.0	And I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:35.0	Nate, we have some unfinished business.
0:36.0	Yes, we do.
0:37.0	Yeah, last year we did a really fun episode on Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas is you. And indeed.
0:44.0	I think we've determined it's probably the best holiday song of all time.
0:47.0	I don't see the need for such superlatives myself, but...
0:51.0	It's a great song.
0:52.0	Yeah, I guess that would really upset your Irving Berlin, Hank Rings.
0:56.0	Composer of white Christmas. Yeah.
0:58.0	No, I'm just... I'm not here to make comparisons, Charlie.
1:00.0	Okay, but...
1:01.0	Parsons are a form of violence.
1:02.0	So I thought what we needed to do was resolve where we left off a year ago.
1:07.0	Right. The unanswered question that I know was just a little bit more than a year ago.
1:12.0	I think that's the only way to get rid of that.
1:15.0	That's where we left off a year ago.
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