Viking's Choice: MxPx, Daniel Bachman, Matana Roberts, more

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🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Bob Boilen will retire from NPR on Oct. 2, and he decided to spend one of his final episodes hosting All Songs Considered with NPR Music's resident Viking, Lars Gotrich, for a mix of pop punk, meticulously cut-up banjo drone, worlds-collapsing free jazz and fingerstyle guitar.

Featured Songs And Artists:
1. MxPx: "What I Tell Myself" from Find a Way Home
2. Slant: "Criminal" from Demo 2023
3. Daniel Bachman: "Summer's fingers sweetly linger (Everywhere on every side)" from When the Roses Come Again
4. Matana Roberts: "shake my bones" from Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden...
5. Svitlana Nianio: "Episode III" from Transilvania Smile, 1994
6. Liam Grant: "Androscogging River Ragg" from Amoskeag

Transcript

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from Bombas, making socks, underwear, and t-shirts that feel good and do good.
0:07.4	Giving 100 million items of clothing to people who need them.
0:11.3	Go to Bombas.com, slash NPR, and use NPR for 20% off your first purchase.
0:19.0	For NPR music, it's all songs considered I'm here with the Vikings Choice Guy himself.
0:23.2	Hey Lars, what are we listening to?
0:24.6	We are listening to MXPX.
0:27.3	All right.
0:30.8	I tell myself to keep my head from real, when to trust myself.
0:35.2	I can't ignore my feelings and try to sit down.
0:38.8	I try to relax.
0:40.4	I try to take time.
0:42.0	I can't take things back.
0:45.2	Trying to get not to panic on my life.
0:50.8	Just can't convince myself.
0:55.6	Or anyone else not to give up.
1:07.6	We care what else they take us to.
1:09.6	I'm not falling.
1:11.0	Don't pick up.
1:12.0	So, so, let's keep calling.
1:14.0	Some cops know I'll bet.
1:15.4	Give me right touch for life.
1:17.0	Like a runaway train on a slash run tonight.
	...

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