Your Playlist Sucks
15 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Everything you didn't know you wanted to know, about music. Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore are two guys with different backgrounds but a shared love of music. Each week, our expert music listener hosts duel it out, putting each other's Spotify playlists on blast while sharing stories of music history, race and obscure nonsense. You'll learn music culture facts like which Supremes chart topper was beamed into space, how copyright law forever changed 90s Hip Hop, what Jean Claude Van Damme film inspired the dance from "Danza Kuduro," and all that we ask is that you help us solve life's greatest mysteries like "What ever happened to Nelly?" and "Was Rasputin by Boney M. playing when the Berlin Wall fell?" in return.
Hear the full playlists at www.playlistsuckspodcast.com and connect with us @playlistsucks on Instagram and Twitter. Email us your ideas for playlist themes, questions, comments and music musings at [email protected].
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Episodes
8. One, You're Like a Dream Come True But Your Playlist Sucks: Elections
November 11, 2020 23:09 - 1 hour - 73.8 MBNow that the election fatigue has hopefully worn off, we bring you episode 8 - the final episode in Season 1 of Your Playlist Sucks Podcast. What a wild ride it has been, a huge thank you goes to our listeners for sticking with us! Recorded prior to Election Day, hosts Enbani and Mark talk about elections, democracy, protest music, and civic engagement. Listen to the playlists on our website www.playlistsuckspodcast.com or follow us on Spotify. What are voters looking for when they head t...
7.5. The Jingle King: Interview with Music Director and Keyboardist Alan Shiner
November 02, 2020 16:49 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBThis episode Dr. Alan Shiner regales us with stories that span his career of over 50 years in the music industry. From composing his first jingle (967-1111 Call Pizza Pizza) in high school, a jingle so famous it has been cited in case law for being used by border guards to tell real Canadians from the would-be Canucks, to writing an international hit with over 15 million copies sold, Alan Shiner gives us a glimpse into his work as a composer, music director/conductor, producer and a performe...
7. I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head, But Your Playlist Sucks
October 23, 2020 15:26 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBWe're back this week with an episode about ear worms that might just make their way onto your rotation! Mark and Enbani talk about the song that you have on repeat, the song that got stuck in your head and then you couldn't get it out, no matter how hard you tried. Maybe you even tried listening to another song (God Save The Queen/The National Anthem or maybe you're a Happy Birthday freak) to push it out of your head. Listen to our hosts' 10-song Spotify playlists on our website here or f...
6.5 Your Brain On Music: Interview with Professor Olivia Podolak Lewandowska
October 08, 2020 18:01 - 52 minutes - 60.3 MBHosts Enbani and Mark interview Olivia Podolak Lewandowska, PhD, Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, delving into the interdisciplinary field of music cognition, which combines music, psychology, neuroscience, music theory, musicology, music therapy, computer science and linguistics. Olivia discusses her life-long passion for music as a pianist, how it led her to study the science of music more intensely, and her research, whi...
6. Boys Don't Cry But Your Playlist Sucks: Masculinity
September 30, 2020 21:55 - 1 hour - 78 MBEpisode 6, AKA the episode when Mark and Enbani finally tear into each other and go for the jugular. The time for puff pieces and complimenting each other has passed. In this episode, our hosts investigate how masculinity is depicted in popular culture and what it means to be a man through their 10-song music playlists available on Spotify here. Enbani discusses the importance of self-determination and gives credit to businessman Jay-Z for making it out of Marcy Houses in Brooklyn (I ...
5.5. Snakehold: R&B Artist Sebastian Gaskin on the Healing Role of Artists During the Pandemic
September 23, 2020 05:23 - 37 minutes - 52.3 MBHosts Enbani and Mark catch up with multi-instrumentalist and fellow Winnipegger Sebastian Gaskin to discuss his leap of faith into a career as a professional musician, his feelings towards the marketing of indigenous artists in Canada and his identity as a member of the Tataskweyak Cree Nation (more commonly known as Split Lake). Despite growing up in a musical family, Sebastian discusses the moment when he decided to leave behind expectations of an academic life to pursue the path of cre...
5. We Belong Together But Your Playlist Sucks: Soundtrack to a Relationship
September 16, 2020 03:35 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBHosts Mark and Enbani get to know each other on a completely new level, talking love (or something like it). In this episode, our hosts dissect the 10-song playlists they each made to show the arc of a relationship (beginning, middle and end), leading them to question what they've learned about themselves in the process. Listen to the playlists on our website here or on Spotify. After convincing Mark not to make a playlist of only "Our Song by Taylor Swift" we left this week's theme So...
4. You Got It From Your Mama, But Your Playlist Sucks: Mom Songs
September 09, 2020 04:01 - 54 minutes - 63.4 MBHosts Enbani and Mark share stories about their childhoods as they continue to piece together the origins of their musical taste, starting with none other than their moms, Arlene and Linda. Listen to the full playlists here. In this episode, we learn about their larger than life moms, the reluctant kitchen dance parties, and precisely what sounds surrounded them when they were kids, when plugging headphones into the fridge-sized record player or blasting the revolutionary 6-disc CD change...
3.5. Dancing Queen: How DJ Lauren Mayhew Discovered Dance Music and DJing
September 01, 2020 22:27 - 37 minutes - 44 MBEnbani and Mark sit down with DJ/Singer Lauren "Lolo" Mayhew, taking it back to the beginning of her music career and growing up in Tampa, Florida. Lauren describes everything from getting signed by Epic Sony as a teen with girl band P.Y.T. opening for Destiny's Child, N*Sync and Britney Spears to falling in love with dance music while on exchange in Spain. Lauren recalls how her focus shifted to songwriting and what Mark describes as "arguably the most anyone has ever gotten out of a Bumbl...
003: I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor But Your Playlist Sucks
August 26, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 62.4 MBSure, you can sway to a great tune, bob, tap your foot or fist pump, but none of these will get you noticed for this week's theme - ultimate songs to get you on the dance floor. Hosts Enbani and Mark break down their top ten greatest dance tracks of all time, whether you're grandma or the baby wearing headphones at a concert in Brooklyn. Listen to the playlists here. We don't mean songs that are fun to dance to, we mean the song that you hear and immediately go "Hold that thought, first...
3. I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor But Your Playlist Sucks
August 26, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 62.4 MBSure, you can sway to a great tune, bob, tap your foot or fist pump, but none of these will get you noticed for this week's theme - ultimate songs to get you on the dance floor. Hosts Enbani and Mark break down their top ten greatest dance tracks of all time, whether you're grandma or the baby wearing headphones at a concert in Brooklyn. Listen to the playlists here. We don't mean songs that are fun to dance to, we mean the song that you hear and immediately go "Hold that thought, first...
2. Call Me Old School But Your Playlist Sucks
August 19, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 64.2 MBEven for the avid music listener, reactions ranging from "mind blown" to "shook" are perfectly valid responses when finding out that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" is, in fact, a cover. This week, Your Playlist Sucks hosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore tackle the world of genre-bending covers and transformational sounds, sampling, and the like, with some of their most fascinating discussions yet. Listen to the full playlists here or follow us on Spotify. What makes a good cover and can cove...
002. Call Me Old School But Your Playlist Sucks
August 19, 2020 04:00 - 55 minutes - 64.2 MBEven for the avid music listener, reactions ranging from "mind blown" to "shook" are perfectly valid responses when finding out that Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" is, in fact, a cover. This week, Your Playlist Sucks hosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore tackle the world of genre-bending covers and transformational sounds, sampling, and the like, with some of their most fascinating discussions yet. Listen to the full playlists here or follow us on Spotify. What makes a good cover and can cove...
001. I Don't Know You But Your Playlist Sucks
August 12, 2020 17:07 - 1 hour - 90 MBHosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore meet for the second time ever and get to know each other through the music playlists they made as “odes to their 14-year-old selves.” Mark and Enbani reflect on a recent New York Times study of Spotify listener data that found that men's musical taste forms roughly between the ages of 13 to 16, and discuss whether age 14 was foundational, whether the music they listened to then sounds good to them now and how their tastes have changed over time. From roc...
1. I Don't Know You But Your Playlist Sucks
August 12, 2020 17:07 - 1 hour - 90 MBHosts Mark Horosko and Enbani Moore meet for the second time ever and get to know each other through the music playlists they made as “odes to their 14-year-old selves.” Mark and Enbani reflect on a recent New York Times study of Spotify listener data that found that men's musical taste forms roughly between the ages of 13 to 16, and discuss whether age 14 was foundational, whether the music they listened to then sounds good to them now and how their tastes have changed over time. From roc...