The Contenders, Vol. 15: The songs we can't stop playing this week
All Songs Considered
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Featured artists and songs:
1. Arooj Aftab: "Raat Ki Rani," from Night Reign
2. The Smile: "Don't Get Me Started" (Single)
3. Japandroids: "D&T," from Fate & Alcohol
4. Peter Cat Recording Co.: "I Deny Me," from Beta
5. Great Grandpa: "Kid" (Single)
6. Yasmin Williams: "Virga (feat. Darlingside)," from Acadia
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| 0:20.0 | You know Stephen, the last time you were on the show show we were talking about all the legacy artists who were back this year you remember all you know all the albums and bands having big anniversaries and all that stuff |
| 0:29.6 | Did you see and like people putting out there putting out their first album in 15 20 years. |
| 0:35.0 | Right. I know you're a fan of the band Stars. Did you see that the album set yourself on |
| 0:38.9 | fire is 20 years old now? I'm sorry I just did that. Well I just got a note that the band's going on |
| 0:45.2 | tour for it this fall which I mean I thought that was really cool. I mean look you got a |
| 0:49.4 | strike while the iron is somewhat hot you know the people who fell in love with that record like as I did 20 years ago we're not |
| 0:56.0 | going to live forever. |
| 0:57.6 | Do it while our fans are still alive. |
| 1:00.9 | I also got a note that it's the 20th anniversary for the Sam Phillips album |
| 1:06.0 | Aboot and a Shoe do you remember that one? Oh yeah that's a great record I mean these |
| 1:09.7 | aren't massive albums maybe to a lot of people but they really strike a chord with me |
| 1:14.0 | partly because they were just in they were in heavy rotation in the early days of all songs |
| 1:19.4 | considered I so remember discovering them and playing them I guess it's got me all in my feels because I was thinking that you know whenever we kick a show off I usually like to go big and loud |
| 1:28.8 | but I want to do the exact opposite for this one and I know you have the perfect track for it. |
| 1:34.0 | I really do and you know I've spent a lot of this summer on kind of focused on what is the song of the summer listening to a lot of big beachy summer pop songs and because of that I kind of lost track of one of the albums I was most excited about in 2024. It's a record by the wonderful Pakistani singer |
| 1:55.6 | Aruj Taub, who made my favorite album of 2021, Vulture Prince, and came back, she put out a great record with a couple other jazz musicians in |
| 2:05.2 | 2023, but she's back with this solo record called Night Rain, REIGN, and it's just |
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