podcast theme songs s&d

Chinstroker vs Punter's new stuff is good. Distraction Pieces.

S: No Dogs in Space

D: Nothing Is Real (A Beatles Podcast)

S: Bandsplain

+1 to Bandsplain (even though I am *genuinely upset* by the format change on their most recent ep)

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Jamie Loftus's Aack Cast!!

Yeah, that is a bummer. Same change that Rob Harvilla made to 60 Songs That Explain the 90s a few months back.

Still unsure of how I feel about the new-ish Slate Political Gabfest theme song that They Might Be Giants wrote. It is appropriately nerdy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3hfG1GYsWs

Also the Bandsplain song is by Best Coast and is the best. Haven't heard the newest episode...what'd they do?

No more full-length songs.

The Daily Beans theme song was also written and performed by They Might be Giants and is stupidly catchy.

xp hm. Will definitely help slim down the already very long episodes, but would probably be better to trim the often rather disorganized discussion/banter.

iirc from when Harvilla explained it, the Spotify program that allows you to use full songs in your podcast automatically disqualifies you from ranking on certain charts or something? You get algorithmically disadvantaged.

S: the old Best Show theme

D: the current Best Show theme

I'm less bothered about losing the songs for their own sake (I can always look them up on my own, I've already got the Spotify app open yafeelme?) than I am about losing their function as reference markers in a 4- or 5-hour podcast. It would be much easier to revisit "the part where Hanif compares listening to Faith to walking through an endless graveyard with a name you recognize on every marker" if I could look at the playlist and start from the talk segment just after the last 17 Seconds track.

Is Bandsplain a spotify exclusive?