The Contenders, Vol. 14: The songs we can't stop playing this week
All Songs Considered
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Featured songs and artists:
1. Orville Peck and Beck: "Death Valley High," from Stampede
2. Nilüfer Yanya: "Call It Love," from My Method Actor
3. Alisa Amador: "Woke Up Today," from Multitudes
4. Moses Sumney: "Gold Coast," from Sophcore
5. Neil Young and Crazy Horse: "Helpless," from Early Daze
6. Rema: "YAYO," from HEIS
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| 0:00.0 | Christian Nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule. |
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| 0:24.4 | Wasn't really sure how to start this week's show, so I thought, let's just kind of dig into the election |
| 0:28.3 | a little bit, you know, talk about... |
| 0:30.8 | We don't talk about Kern events enough. So maybe let's work that in a little bit, you know, and then we'll get around to me. |
| 0:38.8 | No, that is like absolutely the last thing that we want to do. Take a break from it all. If anyone is like me, you've all got to be suffering from news fatigue. And so we're just going to hang out here and just share some stuff that we love. |
| 0:54.0 | Sheldon Pierce here with me. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey Robin. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, something I've actually been wondering about off and on this year is what's been up with Beck? |
| 1:03.8 | Honestly, I really have, because we did this show on Slacker Rock |
| 1:06.8 | back at the beginning of the year, |
| 1:08.0 | because it was the 30th anniversary of a song, |
| 1:10.1 | loser, and I started thinking, |
| 1:12.3 | oh my God, it's so good and you know it's been like five years since he put out an album and so I kind of wonder like I wonder if we're going to get something new from him. |
| 1:21.0 | And he's actually been popping up a little bit more lately doing some |
| 1:24.0 | projects here and there. He's got a little orchestral tour that he's doing right now and |
| 1:28.0 | he just appeared on a new track from the artist Orville Peck. I'm kind of backing in here. All of this is to say actually |
| 1:36.8 | that there's a new song from Orville Peck. |
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