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To celebrate the 55th anniversary of The Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS, music writers and fans Gil & Cecilia Gigliotti delve into the songs and stories surrounding the album in an attempt to solve...
Cecilia shares some updates, including an article of hers that’s new in Longreads: “Let Go of Your Ego: A Reading List on Brian Wilson and P...
We’re in a transitional phase at the moment, but hang in there—we’ll be back soon with the next segment of the Newman season. In the meantim...
And now for something completely different! Cecilia is joined by Natalia Cardenas, host of the She Loves You Podcast (listen here: shorturl....
In our dissection of yet another song-quoting song, we’re helped by no less than everyone! Kathleen Hanna. Garfunkel & Oates. Jim Croce. Pet...
We dive deep into the ethnic and religious demographics of Chicago for a song about a hastily arranged wedding. We discuss theories of short...
If you’ve ever wanted to hear a comprehensive history of the Hollywood cowboy and/or the American folk tradition, have we got an episode for...
A regular love song for a change! No strings attached. We dissect the romantic counterpart to the platonic “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and s...
Today we dig into one of Cecilia’s favorite tracks, all about urban planning gone wrong. Where does Newman’s dismal portrait fit into the ca...
Jewish geniuses left and right! We talk appropriating American legend inside and outside the musical canon, distinction between types of tra...
Happy week between holidays! While you get caught up on the first season and a half, we plug our new insta (@pod_sounds_podcast) and shout o...
Step aside Netflix, we’ve got the latest true crime doc: the Vampire of Düsseldorf. Fritz Lang tells the story in his movie M (1931), then N...
Who says “jolly” or “coppers”? Fannee Doolee does!! #iykyk. Cecilia gives a brief history of Taylor Swift, Gil talks (more) about printed ly...
The title might remind Cecilia of a painting, but it’s one of those that look different to each viewer. Also we can’t say how many people ar...
Sitcom themes! Slide guitars! What is a blackjack, and should you carry one just in case? We’re back to discuss our favorite armed robbers w...
We’re just two-bit podcasters, that’s all we’ll ever be. Grammys trivia, Rolling Stone cover photos, gatefold vinyl sleeves, under what circ...
Cecilia fills us in on the difference between sarcastic and sardonic. We hear about height double standards, attempts to ban the song from r...
Welcome to Volume 2, where we’re breaking down an underrated album by an underrated artist: Randy Newman’s LITTLE CRIMINALS (1977)! We talk...
Oh you thought we were gonna move straight on to season 2? Not when “God Only Knows” has jumped up FOURTEEN SPOTS in Rolling Stone’s 500 Gre...
Hang on to your EGOT! This was originally a goat joke but then I decided Brian probably deserves an EGOT and unfortunately these puns are wh...
Does any other song give you excitations? We thought not. Gil breaks out the Grammy stats, Cecilia talks about the blues, and the cellos nev...
An emotionally fraught, out-of-place song to round out the record. But what did you expect. Big-band origins, classical touches, and a sweet...
Bond, bossa nova, and Barry (Manilow)—what don’t we cover in our discussion of the title track? We try to determine the purpose of this piec...
Some lyrics fall apart if you look at them too closely. You can probably guess where this is headed. What does it mean to be made for one’s...
What do this track, the Roman poet Horace, and Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er Boi” have in common? We express all the thoughts. Will Cecilia ever sh...
Hang on to your ego, because…that’s what this song should still be called. We explore two drafts of a lyric and everything it lost along the...
God only knows how we expected to cover this song in our usual timespan. We parse Brian’s marriage to Marilyn Rovell, the qualities of a Gre...
Sequencing strategies, TikTok sea shanties, and temple blocks—welcome to the album’s only (and very intentional) cover tune. We get into the...
Going electric is so 1965. Brian’s going SYMPHONIC. For the first instrumental track, we muse on target demographics, time signature shifts,...
The return of Rhonda! Or is it? Today we tackle a song that in our opinion should have been a single. Gil wants to be a Capitol exec from th...
Shut up and listen—to our heart beat. The singer could be dreaming, or just talking to himself, but we’re here to test all the theories. For...
Did they do this song backwards? We take a magnifying glass to the Wilson-Asher team’s apprehensive post-adolescent anthem. The lady doth li...
You know perfectly well this is where you should be to learn about track two. And boy does it throw us into the lyrical deep end. Lots to un...
And now for the songs! Today we do a close reading of the iconic opening track. How does Brian pull off bitonality? What are the veiled comp...
Today we get into the specifics of the album—who was involved in it, where and how it was made, what sounds are on it besides those made by...
The inaugural episode finds us—Cecilia and Gil—introducing ourselves and telling personal and cultural histories of The Beach Boys. Shout-ou...
The Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS turns 55 this year! Get ready for a deep dive into the history and mystery of the album with two music writers an...