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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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
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
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
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
Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
Welcome to anoth...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:00:00
I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...
- Added: Mar 18, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: 01:00:06
Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 01:00:06
