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A public domain reading of Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" set to public domain jazz. The result was surprisingly good.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:52
On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 28:25
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...
Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 18, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Stories by Reverend Robert B. Jones and Andy Offutt Irwin
Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KECG, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN and more
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 8
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 27:19
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 28:00
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...
- Added: Jul 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:04
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 01:00:02
Welcome to Melodically Challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:00:01
Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...
- Added: Dec 09, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland
Welcome to another edition of melodically c...
- Added: Oct 24, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06