For a while, the episode risked becoming an episode on unreliable narrators—but really we’re talking about obsession, a subject I suspect we all know something about. Send your song suggestions to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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0:00
Lyle Lovett, “I Married Her Because She Looks Like Her” (Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, 1990)
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4:18
Buddy Miller, “My Love Will Follow You” (Your Love and Other Lies, 1995)
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7:36
The Police, “Every Breath You Take” (Synchronicity, 1983)
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11:35
Bruce Springsteen, “I’m on Fire” (Born in the U.S.A., 1984)
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15:52
Reading: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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20:10
Okkervil River, “A Stone” (Black Sheep Boy, 2005)
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25:25
Drive-By Truckers, “Used to Be a Cop” (Go-Go Boots, 2011)
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33:39
Reading: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
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35:29
Randy Newman, “Shame” (Bad Love, 1999)
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40:16
Martha and the Vandellas, “Nowhere to Run” (Dance Party, 1965)
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43:26
Ella Fitzgerald, “Fascinating Rhythm” (Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook, Vol. 1, 1959)
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46:45
Fruit Bats, “Stuck in My Head Again” (Baby Man, 2025)
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48:50
Kylie Minogue, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” (Fever, 2001)
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52:36
Spill Tab, “Suckerrr” (AngieAngieAngie, 2026)
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56:06
Hatchie, “Obsessed” (Keepsake, 2019)
