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Strong Songs

Music: it's good. On each episode of Strong Songs, host Kirk Hamilton takes listeners inside a piece of music, breaking it down and figuring out what makes it work.

"New Born" and "Micro Cuts" by Muse

56 mins; May 18, 2021

"Nessun dorma" by Giacomo Puccini (Aria Code)

33 mins; May 13, 2021

Strung Beats, Jazz Battles & The Notes You Don't Play

61 hours 36 mins; May 04, 2021

Explaining Musicals, with Lindsay Ellis

58 mins; April 29, 2021

Sidechain Compression & Saxophone Traffic Cones

59 mins; April 20, 2021

"Stolen Moments" by Oliver Nelson

59 mins; April 06, 2021

"Cameo Lover" by Kimbra

55 mins; March 23, 2021

The Mysteries of Music, with Carmen Staaf

67 hours 2 mins; March 16, 2021

"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush

57 mins; March 09, 2021

Cross-Rhythms, Concept Albums & Dream Songs

58 mins; February 23, 2021

"Babylon Sisters" by Steely Dan

59 mins; February 09, 2021

"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap

58 mins; January 26, 2021

"Space Oddity" and "Starman" by David Bowie

53 mins; January 12, 2021

Year Two, In Review

57 mins; November 24, 2020

"A Day in the Life" by The Beatles

58 mins; November 10, 2020

Microtones, Minimalism & the Bebop Scale

62 hours 11 mins; October 27, 2020

Strong TV Songs: HBO Edition

65 hours 51 mins; October 13, 2020

"Hyperballad" by Björk

48 mins; September 29, 2020

Good Synths, Bad Acoustics & Moana

54 mins; September 15, 2020

"The Chain" and "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac

58 mins; September 01, 2020

"Wedding Song" from Hadestown

58 mins; August 18, 2020

Muppet Whistles, Throat Singing & Steely Dan

59 mins; August 04, 2020

"No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age

55 mins; July 21, 2020

"4'33" by John Cage (Twenty Thousand Hertz)

31 mins; July 14, 2020

"World 1-1" from Super Mario Bros.

59 mins; July 07, 2020

"Satisfied" from Hamilton (Updated!)

49 mins; June 30, 2020

"Kiss" by Prince

56 mins; June 23, 2020

Tricky Counting, Straight Saxes & Transposing Horns

60 hours 47 mins; June 09, 2020

"Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens

57 mins; May 26, 2020

The Magic of Sound, with Dallas Taylor

70 hours 2 mins; May 19, 2020

"Walking on Broken Glass" by Annie Lennox

59 mins; May 12, 2020

"Last Goodbye" by Jeff Buckley

59 mins; April 28, 2020

Devo, AC/DC, and a Mystery Solved

64 hours 43 mins; April 14, 2020

"So What" by Miles Davis

59 mins; April 01, 2020

April Makes Fools of Us All

10 mins; April 01, 2020

"God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys

56 mins; March 17, 2020

A Playlist For Trying Times

10 mins; March 13, 2020

"Sinnerman" by Nina Simone

55 mins; March 03, 2020

Muse, Mars, and a Mystery

57 mins; February 18, 2020

"Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" from The Witcher

16 mins; February 10, 2020

"Tom Sawyer" by Rush

60 hours 12 mins; February 04, 2020

Rhythm + Harmony = Music

54 mins; January 28, 2020

"Lovefool" by The Cardigans

49 mins; January 21, 2020

"Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

57 mins; January 07, 2020

Year One, In Review

50 mins; November 26, 2019

"I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton

58 mins; November 12, 2019

"Making Christmas" from The Nightmare Before Christmas

50 mins; October 29, 2019

"Kiss From a Rose" by Seal

52 mins; October 15, 2019

Fiddle Battles and Bad Sax

55 mins; October 01, 2019

Secrets of a Great Band Director, with Janis Stockhouse

55 mins; September 24, 2019

"Think" by Aretha Franklin

50 mins; September 17, 2019

"Like a Prayer" by Madonna

44 mins; September 03, 2019

Pyramid Song, Nirvana & Marty McFly

49 mins; August 20, 2019

Strong TV Songs: Animated Edition

70 hours 20 mins; August 06, 2019

"Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

55 mins; July 23, 2019

"Barracuda" by Heart

47 mins; July 09, 2019

"Tightrope" by Janelle Monáe

54 mins; June 25, 2019

"Tiny Dancer" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John

46 mins; June 11, 2019

Hamilton, Hozier, Multiphonics & Modes

58 mins; May 28, 2019

Tool, Game of Thrones & More Cowbell

42 mins; May 15, 2019

Five Albums That Shaped Me

21 mins; May 08, 2019

"Satisfied" from Hamilton

49 mins; May 01, 2019

"Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra

35 mins; April 17, 2019

"Moanin'" by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

42 mins; April 03, 2019

Syncopation, Subdivision & The Four Chords

45 mins; March 21, 2019

"Let It Go" from Frozen

51 mins; March 06, 2019

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

49 mins; February 20, 2019

"Dancing Queen" by ABBA

38 mins; February 06, 2019

The Beatles, Brubeck, Bond and Beyond

48 mins; January 23, 2019

"Thriller" by Michael Jackson

29 mins; January 09, 2019

"I Wish" by Stevie Wonder

27 mins; December 26, 2018

"Single Ladies" by Beyoncé

26 mins; December 12, 2018

"You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon

17 mins; November 28, 2018

"Africa" by Toto

21 mins; November 18, 2018

Trailer

59 secs; November 14, 2018

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