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Last 20 Shows S02 E05: Getting Wiser Greetings!Normally, here you'd find some sort of introductory paragraph outlining the content of this week's episode, usually in an overly perspicacious fashion and coming across as a sorry attempt to sound "hip". That's all well and good, but today is Tyler's birthday, so instead, here is a picture of him at age 5:Rock on, man-child, rock on.PLAYLISTThe Dirty Projectors - Knotty PineSpoon - I Saw The LightArcade Fire - LeninFeist and Ben Gibbard - Train SongMiley Cyrus - Party In The USAEl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
LOSTa.k.a. se2e4That's right folks: if you're a fan of LOST, this is your episode, filled with analysis, speculation and series-related tunes. If you are not a fan, well, you have a few days yet to watch five seasons' worth of T.V. in preparation for the season premiere on Tuesday. Get going!PLAYLISTBuddy Holly - Everyday (S05E11)Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight (multiple episodes)Brenda Lee - I Wonder (S03E05)The Police - Message in a BottleJohn Denver - Leaving on a Jet PlaneLed Zeppelin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
S02 E03: The Road Less TravelledWhere do we go from here, faithful listeners? That seems to be the overall theme of this episode, if you had to think about it (we did). Hmm... a rhetorical question from two twenty-something nerds concerned with the uncertainty surrounding our times? Cue the Indie music!PLAYLISTBrand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin LightMinus The Bear - This Ain't A Surfin' MovieWolf Parade - Shine A LightTV On The Radio - ProvinceThe Smiths - Pretty Girls Make GravesNew Order - TemptationLINKSC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Awkward Silences S02 E01: The Big LeaguesOne might say we've 'graduated' to the next level of podcasting. The second season, if you will.PLAYLISTFrench Kicks - Said So WhatSarah Harmer - LodestarTaken by Trees - Lost and FoundTegan and Sara - The CureTegan and Sara - SomedayStars - HeartColdplay - See You SoonLINKSMichael Ignatieff's Opinion PieceLost OverviewListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
S02 E02: Building OnWe won't say that this is the best episode of A. S. ever. That would be presumptuous. But it's probably fair to say it's the best of this season. And if we keep building on our experience, Season 3 will win some sort of Podcastie Award. No pressure, though...PLAYLISTLilly Allen - Everything's Just WonderfulRilo Kiley - My Slumbering HeartCSS - Off The HookLittle Girls - Youth TunesTegan and Sara - On DirectingNightmares on Wax - Flip Ya LidLINKSAlice is Dead; Here Comes the BoogeymanCentury ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 47: Baby, It's Cold OutsideSince this episode is pretty self-explanatory, how about an anecdote? As a child, I always thought that the line "See the blazing Yule before us," from Deck the Halls, made reference to a tradition dating back to the pagan roots of this holiday; namely, the ritualistic burning of Yul Brynner, star of such films as The King and I, on a large pyre fuelled by yew-wood and holly. And since I never knew the lyrics to "Baby, It's Cold Outside," past the title phrase, I assumed the rest of the ver ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 46: New Old-Fashioned WaySomewhere between the sacred and traditional Christmas carols and the chintzy slop we covered in Episode 45, there's the Christmas Song: It's pleasant, it's catchy, it's relatively recent yet seems destined to feature for many Christmases to come. So in our last "regular" episode of 2009, we're rocking out to our favourite Christmas songs. In a new old-fashioned way. Whatever that means.PLAYLISTBrenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas TreeBobby Helms & The Anita Kerr Singers - Jingle B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 45: Roasting ChestnutsMany subscribe to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. Sorry, folks, this is not the time for etiquette: Christmas is at stake! So this week, we take a look at the most horrendous Yuletide musical offerings over the years. Why would you subject yourself to this gauntlet of chintz? Well, we here at Awkward Silences are experts at making catty remarks. Also, it's considered "with it" to like things ironically. So here we go...PLAYLISTShir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 44: It's LateWe're getting ever so close to the end: the end of the month, end of the year, end of the decade. But hopefully not at the end of your patience. Here it is, Episode 44, plump with sonorous delights. Plus, you know all those things you were thinking about lately? Yeah, we've thought about them too. Except we have microphones. And opinions. And delusions of greatness.Playlist:Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent AdolescentBlind Melon - SoupFleetwood Mac - DreamsJenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 43: What's Up With That?Doesn't everyone love a parade? No? Ooo wee... What's up with that?It's a veritable parade of hot topics this week, as we unleash a new rapid-fire segment. Plus, more Office talk than you could probably ever want. Oh, and, did you know we play music now? Enjoy!(Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 1918)PLAYLISTCar Stereo Wars - Radio EditWinter Gloves - About a GirlTegan and Sara - Living RoomBorn Ruffians - HummingbirdThe Strokes - Trying Your LuckYeah Yeah Yeahs - PinThe Pixies - Wave of Mutilatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 42: Better with AgeRemembrance Day, the fall of the Berlin Wall, a recent Royal visit and forty years of Sesame Street: yes, we can find a link between the four. Gloomy November has a knack for casting our focus on old things, anniversaries and institutions. So enjoy this week's episode, as we dust off the old memory album (and play a variety of unconnected, modern music, just because we can).PLAYLISTNew Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish TechnoBroken Social Scene - Looks Just Like the SunRadiohead - Bangers &am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 41: Same Old Story...same old song and dance, my friend.That was an Aerosmith reference. Clever, eh?This week, we discuss November, mass shootings, the conservation of our industrial heritage, and, of course, The Office. Oh, and, as usual, we talk about ourselves. Enjoy!PLAYLISTSantogold - L.E.S. artistesMetric - HandshakesTimber Timbre - Like a MountainGrizzly Bear - Deep Blue SeaThe Conservation Authority - Her Stirring WavesThe Clash - Rudie Can't FailBlondie - RaptureEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 40: Far & AwayNo, you haven't stumbled onto a blog dedicated to Ron Howard's 1992 film (starring the former Hollywood power couple of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise). It's just, Far & Away is this week's musical theme. And, as it happens, Episode 40 is far and away our most awkward of late, so, umm, aren't you keen on it, now?PLAYLISTRainer Maria - Life of LeisureTegan and Sara - Hop A PlaneElton John - Rocket ManChantal Kreviazuk - Until We DieCarole King - So Far AwaySimon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Episode 38: Stuck on YouYes, we've had to delay for a few days to get our ducks in a row (in accordance with Bylaw 11.34(20), "Provisions for Fowl Alignment"), but what a show this week! Earworms: songs that are so catchy, you'll need a restraining order to distance yourself from this episode. Co-stanza...PLAYLISTKylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My HeadDion & The Belmonts - Runaround SueThe Tokens - The Lion Sleeps TonightThe Archies - Sugar, SugarThe Muppets - Mah Nà Mah NàElton John - Bennie and the Je ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
EPISODE 37This week, well, why not just listen?MUSIC CREDITSDeath Cab For Cutie - Information Travels FasterShe & Him - I Was Made For YouSt. Vincent - MarrowLand of Talk - A Series of Small FlamesPick A Piper - RoomsMonty Python - Drunken Philosophers' SongFor a worthwhile blog jam-packed with art and music, check out: Nocturnal WeeksListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
EPISODE 38With people getting hit by trains and bunnies being burned for fuel, is it any wonder that we spend a good portion of this comfort-food episode to discuss our favourite streets? Also, as usual, a look at the latest episode of The Office, with some passing thoughts on Inglorious Basterds.MUSIC CREDITSBadly Drawn Boy - Camping Next to WaterZeus - How Does it FeelThe Guess Who - Hand Me Down WorldSea Wolf - The Violet HourTraveling Wilburys - Handle with CarePaul Simon - Me and Julio Down By T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Cover Episode (36)It's the episode you've all been waiting for - COVERS!(Stephen Harper performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the NAC Gala: Video)With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (Beatles Cover)Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas (Covered by The Rolling Stones)Hard To Handle by Otis Redding (Covered by The Black Crowes)Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers (Covered by Roy Orbison and Nazareth)Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac (Covered by Santana)Proud Mary by Tina and Ike Turner (CCR Cover)Nothing Compares ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Cover Episode (36)It's the episode you've all been waiting for - COVERS!(Stephen Harper performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the NAC Gala: Video)With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (Beatles Cover)Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas (Covered by The Rolling Stones)Hard To Handle by Otis Redding (Covered by The Black Crowes)Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers (Covered by Roy Orbison and Nazareth)Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac (Covered by Santana)Proud Mary by Tina and Ike Turner (CCR Cover)Nothing Compares ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
EPISODE ONEHere's our first episode. Please let us know what you think. Enjoy!For those that can't get it directly from here, try:Episode 1 - January 9th, 2009Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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