Strong Songs Podcast Transcripts
Kirk Hamilton · 179 episodes with transcripts
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.
Spoken has transcripts of 179 Strong Songs episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 18, 2026.
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"Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads
September 18, 2026
Kirk Hamilton (0:01)
The sequential Prophet 5 synthesizer was designed in 1977 by Dave Smith and John Bowen, and it remains sought after even today. But when they say that the music industry has long been too Prophet motivated, I only wish they were talking about the synthesizer. Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your…
I am fascinated by the role of repetition in music. It's an essential aspect of music from the nitty-gritty, measure-to-measure construction of a song all the way out to the looping, repeating chain of musical inspiration that connects each generation to the last. Every piece of music involves some form of…
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