Never a bad time to revisit this gem of an episode from the great Ka Baird. New episodes are on the way – just needed a little break this summer!
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Ka Bard on the show. Their latest album, “Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos,” is something else. For all of the great music Ka’s made over the last 2+ decades, this one really stands out. After that, we try to figure out what it was about 1971 that went so damn hard! And we get into how the Muppets are a national treasure, the staying power of the Raincoats, Alice Coltrane’s all-time greatness, connecting with Joanna Newsom, MC Yallah’s infectious relentlessness, the impossibility of Can, Sinead O’Connor’s incredible power, and loads more!
Listen to all of Ka’s picks HERE
Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos
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Song List
The Muppets “Rainbow Connection”
Sibylle Baier “Says Elliot
Alice Coltrane “Universal Consciousness”
Hole “Teenage Whore”
Comus “Drip Drip”
Tricky “Overcome”
Joanna Newsom “Only Skin”
Leonard Cohen “Stories of the Street”
Can “Vitamin C”
MC Yallah “Kubali”
Sinead O’Connor “Troy”
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes “Ame Debout”
Songs of Our Lives is a podcast series hosted by Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis that explores the music that’s made us and left a certain mark. Whether it’s a song we associate with our most important moments, something that makes us cry, the things we love that nobody else does, or our favorite lyrics, we all have our own personal soundtrack.
