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The Sounds in My Head is a biweekly music show featuring songs and bands you might have missed. Hosted by Daniel since 2004.

Musically The Sounds in My Head attempts to be fairly eclectic, but probably tends to lean towards "indie pop" music. Also, I try to squeeze in as much left-wing propaganda as possible between tracks.

The Sounds in My Head

Season 22 Episode 1
 
 1. Keep Your Light On - Hugo Brijs
 2. Youth Fool - Twist
 3. Payphone - Twist
 4. Arthur Kill - Boyscott
 5. Lima - Boyscott
 6. Just Like Heaven - Richard Cheese
 7. The Greatest - Richard Cheese
 8. Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光) - Chinese American Bear
 9. Yummy Yummy Yummy (好吃好吃) - Chinese American Bear
 10. Rattlesnake - Rubblebucket
 11. Morning Glory Blanket - Rubblebucket
 12. Anyone Else But You - Rubblebucket
 
This episode features a tightly-edited-but-still-extended clip from a recent episode of Sam Harris' podcast Making Sense where he discusses the global catastrophe of Trump, by way of tariffs, grift, corruption, lunacy, and all the rest.

S22,E01: 04/07/25 (FINALLY! Hugo Brijs, Twist, Boyscott, Richard Cheese, Chinese American Bear, and Rubblebucket)

Season 22 Episode 2
 
 1. Edibles - Foamboy
 2. Washington DC - Zack Keim
 3. Better Days - Zack Keim
 4. Praise - Panda Bear
 5. Ends Meet - Panda Bear
 6. Midwinter Swimmers - The Innocence Mission
 7. John Williams - The Innocence Mission
 8. Pray to Me - Dyan
 9. What Fiction Is For - Dyan
 10. You Were the Ones I Had to Betray - Dean Wareham
 11. The Cloud is Coming - Dean Wareham
 12. Fine Day - cagedancr.
 
This episode features a clip from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update in which Emil Wakim talks about American Patriotism in these trying times.

S22,E01: 04/28/25 (Foamboy, Zack Keim, Panda Bear, The Innocence Mission, Dyan, Dean Wareham, cagedancr.)

1. Party - Sipper
 2. Freedom - Jenny Hval
 3. Classic Objects - Jenny Hval
 4. Sunday - Sea Lemon
 5. Fortune Teller - Sea Lemon
 6. House Show - VHS Sports
 7. Flowers - VHS Sports
 8. Everything Is Simple - Widowspeak
 9. Salt - Widowspeak
 10. Lights Out - Traffik Island
 11. Babylon Blues - Traffik Island
 12. Gothenburg English - Alyssa Gengos
 13. O Kanan Dume - Alyssa Gengos
 14. Aline - Jarvis Cocker
 
This episode features a clip from Dan Olson’s epic 2+ hour rant/takedown of the grifts known as crypto and NFTs and all their associated cruft, Line Goes Up. I have friends who’ve earned literally hundreds of thousands of dollars leveraging the NFT shell game to great effect. But they did so with no delusions of grandeur, just wanting to take part in the early stages of an obvious MLM scheme. So I guess good on them for getting in early and milking the cash cow. But I still find the whole thing distasteful. Ha.

S19,E05: 04/11/22 (Sipper, Jenny Hval, Sea Lemon, VHS Sports, Widowspeak, Traffik Island,Alyssa Gengos, Jarvis Cocker)

SPECIAL "LET'S HEAR FROM THE LADIES" EPISODE!
 
 1. Out of My Way (I'm Not Getting on the Night Bus) - Breakup Haircut
 2. Creator - Ora the Molecule
 3. Die to Be a Butterfly - Ora the Molecule
 4. Who Put You Up To This? - Sunflower Bean
 5. Baby Don't Cry - Sunflower Bean
 6. Obvious to You - Le Pain
 7. Is That How You Want Me to Feel? - Le Pain
 8. Indigo Highway - Dana Gavanski
 9. Letting Go - Dana Gavanski
 10. Burning Castle - Renata Zeiguer
 11. Alone With Someone Else - Renata Zeiguer
 12. Eraser - Sea Lemon
 
This episode features a clip from The Ezra Klein Show where Ezra is setting up the context for his interview with legal expert Dahlia Lithwick about just how extremist and anti-democratic the SCOTUS is at the moment. As well as a clip from NYT’s The Daily where Sabrina Tavernise interviews abortion-rights lawyer Nancy Stearns about whether or not her stronger, pre-Roe legal case could have changed the course of history for women’s rights.

S19,E11: 07/04/22 (LADIES! Breakup Haircut, Ora the Molecule, Sunflower Beam, Le Pain, Dana Gavanski, Renata Zeiguer, Sea Lemon)

SPECIAL "NEW FRONTIERS IN EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE!
 
 1. The Key Club, 1976 - Kolumbo
 2. Manna - Ìxtahuele feat. Kadhja Bonet and Orange Crate Art
 3. Exotique Mecanique - L'exotighost
 4. Mai Tai Break - L'exotighost
 5. Quiet Village - The Manakooras
 6. Maple Leaf - The Hilo Hi-Flyers
 7. Mountain King - The Hilo Hi-Flyers
 8. Bora! - Mocky
 9. In Cucina - Vanishing Twin
 10. Dusty - Monster Rally
 11. La Carrera Gourmet - Louie Zong
 12. El Bosque - Louie Zong
 13. Mysterious Planet - The Natural Yogurt Band
 
This episode features a clip from The Local’s Sweden In Focus podcast where they interviewed Carlos Velasco from Honduras about what led him to a life in Sweden. The thing I’ve been most surprised by living in Sweden is how few of my fellow ex-pats came here not for work or love, but for the same kinds of reasons I did: that by the numbers it’s among the best places in the world you can live. Carlos knows what’s up!

S19,E12: 07/18/22 (NEW EXOTICA! Kolumbo, Ixtahuele, L'exotighost, Manakooras, Hilo Hi-Flyers, Mocky, Vanishing Twin, Monster Rally, Louie Zong, Natural Yogurt Band)

SPECIAL "CLASSIC EXOTICA MUSIC" EPISODE!
 
 1. Vertigogo (Opening Theme) - Combustible Edison
 2. Misirlou - Martin Denny
 3. Coronation - Martin Denny
 4. La Pampa Y La Puna - Martin Denny
 5. Poinciana - Arthur Lyman
 6. Anna - Arthur Lyman
 7. Quiet Village - Les Baxter
 8. Jungalero - Les Baxter
 9. Disappeared (2021 Mix) - Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi
 10. Miniskirt - Combustible Edison feat. Juan García Esquivel
 11. 20th Century - Combustible Edison
 12. Carnival of Souls - Combustible Edison
 
This episode features a clip of Coleman Hughes from his podcast Conversations with Coleman where in his discussion with Jonathan Haidt he discusses the pros and cons of the social fragmentation allowed by the internet. Seems like most people I know focus only on the benefits or the downsides, but to me it seems worth observing both.

S19,E13: 08/01/22 (CLASSIC EXOTICA! Combustible Edison, Martin Denny, Arthur Lyman, Les Baxter, Haruomi Hosono and Miharu Koshi, Juan García Esquivel)

1. Somedays - VHS Sports
 2. Love Bus - Chinese American Bear
 3. Love Is - Chinese American Bear
 4. Whiskey & Water - Voxtrot
 5. Kindergarten - Voxtrot
 6. Wouldn’t It Be Nice - She & Him
 7. Melt Away - She & Him
 8. True to Ourselves - Freedom Fry
 9. As Far Away as Possible - Shout Out Louds
 10. Sky and I (Heaven) - Shout Out Louds
 11. Our Trash - Evripidis and His Tragedies
 
This episode features a clip from a recent Al Franken Podcast wherein he interviews journalist and Russia expert Julia Ioffe who explains why negotiating with Putin about Ukraine is ill-advised.

S19,E14: 08/15/22 (VHS Sports, Chinese American Bear, Voxtrot, She and Him, Freedom Fry, Shout Out Louds, Evripidis and His Tragedies)

1. Summer's End - Dayaway
 2. Don't Hang up on Me - Tchotchke
 3. Dizzy - Tchotchke
 4. Pixie Gf - Powerplant
 5. So Far Away - Down Time
 6. Marie Kondo - Breakup Haircut
 7. Why Can't I Be Cool Enough to Move to Berlin? - Breakup Haircut
 8. Election Day - Cheekface feat. Sidney Gish
 9. You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East - Cheekface
 10. The Tunnel - Cones
 11. Summer Is Gone - Kid Francescoli
 
This episode features a clip from Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast where he explains why Donald Trump is a worse person than Osama bin Laden. His description here mirrors much of my own take and was a big part of why I felt so compelled to escape from post-Trump America.

S19,E15: 08/29/22 (Dayaway, Tchotchke, Powerplant, Down Time, Breakup Haircut, Cheekface, Cones, Kid Francescoli)

1. Extra Mile - Alexandria
 2. The Sound of Music - Kiwi jr.
 3. Unspeakable Things - Kiwi jr.
 4. Hello Sunshine - Foreign Air
 5. Why Don't You Feel the Way I Do? - Foreign Air
 6. Je n'veux pas rester sage - Requin Chagrin
 7. Crush - Requin Chagrin feat. Anaïs Demoustier
 8. Highschool Steady - Eli Smart
 9. No Destination - Eli Smart
 10. All My Blood - Ham Sandwich
 11. Small Talk - Greta Morgan
 
This episode features a clip from HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher where Bill predicts how the traditionally unifying event of an alien invasion would go down in present-day America.

S19,E16: 09/12/22 (Alexandria, Kiwi jr., Foreign Air, Requin Chagrin feat. Anaïs Demoustier, Eli Smart, Ham Sandwich, Greta Morgan)

1. Not a Go - Foamboy
 2. Better - Foamboy
 3. Peach Smoothie - Foamboy
 4. Garth - Husbands
 5. Must Be a Cop - Husbands
 6. Night Nurse - Dean & Britta
 7. Easy Does It - Marlon Williams
 8. My Boy - Marlon Williams
 9. Up the Junction - Squeeze
 10. The Dance - Air Waves
 11. Black Metal - Air Waves feat. Frankie Cosmos and Merce Lemon
 12. Mind on Fire - The Mary Onettes
 
This episode features a clip from The Michael Shermer Show where Michael talks to British satirist and commentator Andrew Doyle about the adoption by progressives of trans activist’s world-view, and how folly and unprogressive he predicts history will judge that to be. Call me a “TERF”, but I tend to agree, and I hope saying so doesn’t mean I lose a bunch of friends. Also, I’m personally more concerned with the elimination of sex-separated spaces for women and girls, as well as social contagion among teenage girls leading to irreversible medical interventions for them, than I am about gay boys, but ya know, yeah them too.

S19,E17: 09/26/22 (Foamboy, Husbands, Dean and Britta, Marlon Williams, Squeeze, Air Waves feat. Frankie Cosmos and Merce Lemon, Mary Onettes)

1. Stars Are Blind (Follow Me) - Chris Laufman & Wise Blood
 2. Sunshine Time - Coast Modern
 3. Electric Fence - Ruby
 4. Bedtime - Ruby
 5. Steal My Sunshine - The Goon Sax
 6. Sintaluta - The Garrys
 7. Bury Me With My Money - The Garrys
 8. Change - Kelley Stoltz
 9. My Wildest Dream - Kelley Stoltz
 10. Did You Give the World Some Love Today, Babe? - The PJ's
 
This episode features an extended series of clips stitched together from a recent episode of Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast where Sam talks to subject matter expert Timothy Snyder about Russia’s war on Ukraine and he systematically knocks down bad take after bad take from the "do your own research" wing of the Twitterverse.

S19,E20: 11/07/22 (Chris Laufman and Wise Blood, Coast Modern, Ruby, The Goon Sax, The Garrys, Kelley Stoltz, The PJ's)

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