Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
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Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
Mark Blankenship and Sarah D. Bunting are journalists, friends, and music fans who love talking about pop music of all stripes.
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Billy Joel's "The Stranger," Ranked (with Dan Rogge!)
Dan Rogge is back (-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack) to help us discuss and rank William's 1979 breakthrough release, "The Stranger" -- complete with derogatory L...
Billy Joel's "Glass Houses," Ranked (with Dan Rogge!)
Don't ask us why* we decided to hurl a rock at William Joel's 1980 release, "Glass Houses" -- but we're ranking that album with the help of Ambassador...
Grammys 2025: Underdogs and Roller Rinks
We end the Best New Artist season where it all began for the podcast: the Grammys. We're talking today about the 67th Grammy Awards' "big 4" categorie...
Best New Artist Breakdown 08: 2017-2024
It's the Best New Artist Breakdown season finale, featuring a MASTAS greatest-hits line-up, the return of sprung rhythm, grand unifying complaints abo...
Best New Artist Breakdown 07: 2009-2016
Our penultimate Best New Artist Breakdown moves into the teens; we're talking about Amy Clonehouses, lost anthems of lady rage, gold-watch nominations...
Best New Artist Breakdown 06: 2001-2008
As the Best New Artist Breakdown season rounds the millennium turn, we're talking about which band is playing when Jennifer Love Hewitt flees a serial...
Best New Artist Breakdown 05: 1993-2000
We're closing out the twentieth century in our fifth episode, and there are fewer howling embarrassments among our Best New Artist winners this time.....
Best New Artist Breakdown 04: 1985-1992
Confusing band names, the MTV aura, and what happens if the comedy/tragedy masks and a keyboard mate: it's the 4th episode of our Best New Artist seas...
Best New Artist Breakdown 03: 1977-1984
Disco, NuRo, and not knowing where to look during "Afternoon Delight" -- it's all part of our third episode, when we're also talking about Starman's d...
Best New Artist Breakdown 02: 1969-1976
We're wading into the '70s in our second ep, which includes ruminations on inessential classic rock; how Karen Carpenter and Judy Garland can take you...
Best New Artist Breakdown 01: 1960-1968
The Best New Artist Breakdown season has begun! Instead of pitting the 64 winners of the Grammys' Best New Artist category against each other, we're t...
Pop Goes The Actor 5: Operation Enduring Pop Star
Our finale finds us talking about actor/musicians with lasting pop careers: Oscar-winners (Jamie Foxx), Grammy-winners (Childish Gambino), former chil...
Pop Goes The Actor 4: '80s Movie Gents
This week's crop of actor-musician hyphenates got their thespian starts in films of the 1980s: Corey Feldman, Keanu Reeves (Dogstar), Kevin Bacon (the...
Pop Goes The Actor 3: Comedians
Do you love to laugh? Then fall down the ha-ha hole that is Pop Goes The Actor's third episode! This week, we're looking at comedians who tested the p...
Pop Goes The Actor 2: Ladies of the Small Screen
Oh yes it's ladies' night on the second episode of Pop Goes The Actor...but IS the feeling right? Sometimes! We wend our way through copyright-complia...
Pop Goes The Actor 1: '70s Sitcoms
Pop Goes The Actor: a mini-season about thespians who tried (and sometimes succeeded at!) being pop musicians. In our premiere episode, we're talking...
'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 04: Romeo + Juliet
1996's Romeo + Juliet seemed like a slam-dunk ending to our soundtrack mini-season...but we have regrets! Epcot industrial music, lazy versions of Sha...
'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 03: Forrest Gump
This episode is, we suppose, like a box of chocolates, because technically you don't know what you're going to get, but we can tell you we're talking...
'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 02: Pulp Fiction
The '90s Soundtrack Flashback season is bustin' surfboards with Pulp Fiction, 1994's omnipresent Quentin Tarantino joint. After talking about how the...
'90s Soundtrack Flashback, Episode 01: Singles
Welcome to our '90s Soundtrack Flashback mini-season! We're ranking the soundtrack albums from four legendary 1990s movies, starting with grunge-adjac...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 23: "Word Crimes"
"Blurred Lines," the sound of the summer of 2013, is compared (unfavorably) with a cold sore in today's episode, which pits Robin Thicke, TI, and Phar...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 21: "Smells Like Nirvana"
Thirty years after the death of frontman Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and their music still feel very close. Does that have anything to do with Weird Al's equ...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 19: "Rye Or The Kaiser"
It's an all-time training-montage banger vs. Weird Al's vision for Rocky XIII in today's episode, as we drop Wiki factoids, contemplate an all-depress...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 17: "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"
You can't always control what people do with your art once it's out in the world -- something Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits may have learned the hard...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 15: "Lasagna"
It's that Airbnb pasta-taxonomy poster in pop-song form: "Lasagna," Weird Al's take on Los Lobos's take on Ritchie Valens's take on the Mexican folk s...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 13: "Jurassic Park"
Late-sixties melodrama meets early-nineties blockbuster in today's episode, as we contemplate who left the Barney cake out in the rain while comparing...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 11: "I Think I'm A Clone Now"
The unique legacy of Tommy James and the Shondells adds another chapter today, as Weird Al contends with Tiffany's smash cover of "I Think We're Alone...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 9: "I Lost On Jeopardy"
Can Weird Al inch ahead in the season standings with "I Lost On Jeopardy," his parody of the Greg Kihn Band's "Jeopardy"? We're talking early adopters...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 7: "Gump"
This week's match-up pits The Presidents of the United States of America's "Lump" against Weird Al's "Gump"...but is it really a face-off if the origi...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 5: "Fat"
"What if we just........didn't." That's one of the questions confronting us as WE confront an out-of-character entry in the Weird Al songbook: "Fat."...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 3: "Bedrock Anthem"
Grab a tube sock for your privates: it's time to pit the Red Hot Chili Peppers against Weird Al! Before Mark makes the pun that drives our listenershi...
Weird Al vs. Everybody Episode 1: "Amish Paradise"
Welcome to the Weird Al vs. Everybody season of MASTAS! We're looking at a couple dozen Weird Al Yankovic songs and the originals that inspired him, a...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 12: Answer Songs
The competition is over, but the discussion of comeback songs isn't -- and today's is about comebacks in the answer/clapback sense. Seven "answer" son...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 11: The Championship
It's time to declare a winner -- the definitive pop-music comeback song -- but the road to the final result is a twisty one. "Believe" and "Walk This...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 10: The Final 4
The semifinal round is, while somewhat predictable, still full of ups and downs, including Spelling Bee's interest in our works and days, the way Adam...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 9: The Elite 8
We're down to eight great comeback songs; which ones will join the Do Call It A Comeback season's Final Four? We're quoting Wayne's World, we're putti...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 8: The Sweet 16
The Sweet 16 is here, along with the return to numbered rankings...and the unkindest cuts of all, plus another Auto-Tune justice conversation, myriad...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 7: Footnotes and Odd Lots
We're taking a quick break before the emotional press of the Sweet 16 to talk about a handful of "off-label" comebacks: award-winners, kids' songs, co...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 6: Round Of 32 B
Mark's spreadsheet of history has spoken: we're choosing the rest of the Do Call It A Comeback season's Sweet 16 this week! From the top of the pallet...
Do Call It A Comeback, Episode 5: Round Of 32 A
The Round Of 32 is underway! After a brief chat about our head-vs.-heart processes in this round, we descend into the valley of the shadow of twos: st...