The only rock radio station in El Paso had a program on Sunday nights called The Lone Star Radio Show. Two years later it was time to move back to Arizona. No matter how much he screwed me over, no matter how much I hated him, I owed him. I had never heard these bands before. Within two years or so this guy would betray me professionally in a major way. If you want to support the show, check out the Strong Songs Patreon.One day around 1997 a copywriter I worked with in El Paso gave me burned copies of Radiohead’s Ok Computer and Tool’s Aenima. You can find playlists containing every Strong Song as well as all of Kirk's weekly music picks from his other podcast, Kotaku Splitscreen, on both Spotify and Apple Music.Īs always, a massive thank-you to everyone who's signed up to become a patron of Strong Songs- your support makes it possible to make the show what it is!

Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: Galen plays keyboard and organ and acts as bandleader for the soul jazz group Trio Subtonic you can find playing regularly around Portland, Oregon and occasionally on tour. This episode's outro soloist is the one and only Galen Clark.

(This episode's audio was edited to correct some flanger/phaser confusion, thanks to listener Oblong Thong for sharing this cool catalogue of Greenwood's guitar effects: ) Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify It's a structurally distinct, sonically adventurous, harmonically varied, and unexpectedly Bohemian Rhapsodyesque journey into the human psyche as Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and the rest of their not-so-merry band plumb the depths of 90s alienation.Ĭomposed by: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Philip Selway Brace for a pressurized descent, as Kirk braves the undercurrents of Radiohead's alt-rock masterpiece 'Paranoid Android.'

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