We’re talking about memory this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. How much do we need to remember in order to think, and how much do we need to forget? Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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Barbra Streisand, “The Way We Were” (The Way We Were, 1974)
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5:16
The Dismemberment Plan, “Memory Machine” (Emergency and I, 1999)
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8:13
Reading: Plato, Meno
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12:12
Sixpence None the Richer, “We Have Forgotten” (Sixpence None the Richer, 1997)
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17:20
Otis Redding, “I’ve Got Dreams to Remember” (The Immortal Otis Redding, 1968)
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20:41
Reading: St. Augustine, Confessions
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23:11
John Prine, “I Remember Everything” (single, 2020)
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25:51
Terry Scott Taylor, “Be That as It May” (This Beautiful Mystery, 2022)
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29:55
Mary Chapin Carpenter, “This Shirt” (State of the Heart, 1989)
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35:42
Stan Getz, “I Remember Clifford” (Didn’t We, 1969)
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38:59
Simple Minds, “(Don’t You) Forget About Me” (The Breakfast Club OST, 1985)
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43:18
The Kinks, “Do You Remember Walter” (The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968)
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46:46
Reading: Jorge Luis Borges, “Funes the Memorious”
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50:27
Joy Electric, “The Boy Who Never Forgot” (The White Songbook, 2001)
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54:16
Red Norvo, “Remember” (single, 1937)
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58:04
Benjamin Bratt, “Remember Me” (Coco, 2020)
