We’re talking about fire in all its forms this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, and I managed to get all the way through the episode without referencing Beavis and Butthead. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Wilco, “Sunken Treasure” (Being There, 1997)
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8:05
Reading: Lewis Grizzard, If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground
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11:40
Lou Rawls, “Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield” (You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, 1970)
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14:40
Bambara, “Serafina” (Stray, 2020)
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21:05
The Beatles, “Norwegian Wood” (Rubber Soul, 1965)
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23:08
Keren Ann, “Chelsea Burns” (Nolita, 2004)
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27:16
Reading: Edmund Spenser, “My love is like to ice”
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28:41
Norah Jones, “Just a Little Bit” (single, 2019)
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34:11
Titus Andronicus, “Fired Up” (The Most Lamentable Tragedy, 2015)
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38:16
Mike Knott, “Burnin’ on Fire” (Strip Cycle, 1995)
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43:02
Reading: Dante, Inferno
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45:12
Meat Puppets, “Lake of Fire” (Meat Puppets II, 1984)
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47:07
The Band, “This Wheel’s on Fire” (Music from Big Pink, 1968)
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51:05
Josh Ritter, “Thin Blue Flame” (The Animal Years, 2006)
