The Secret Life of Songs
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Award-winning music analysis podcast, The Secret Life of Songs, returns with a new series exploring classic songs from the 1970s and 80s. Hear how the fallout from the disappointed hopes of the 1960s was explored in the work of Sly Stone and Joni Mitchell, how the unearthly new sounds unlocked by radical new music technology was used to express both utopian and dystopian impulses by Giorgio Moroder and the originators of Detroit Techno, and how the era’s most divisive cultural concept - postmodernism - was uncannily reflected in the output of the era’s most divisive pop band - ABBA...
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Recent episodes
- #20 - A Case of You / Joni Mitchell
- #19 - Streets of Philadelphia / Bruce Springsteen
- #18 - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) / Whitney Houston
- #17 - Time After Time / Cyndi Lauper
- #16 - 9 to 5 / Dolly Parton
- #15 - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) / Kate Bush
- #14 - Good Life / Inner City
- #11 - I Feel Love / Donna Summer
- #12 - Family Affair / Sly and the Family Stone
- #13 - SOS / ABBA