Episode Archive
198 episodes of Lyrics To Go since the first episode, which aired on December 17th, 2020.
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181 - Turning Japanese
June 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
i really think so, racism, sixteen candles, the vapors, the vapours, turning japanese
Marc and Seth dig into what it means to be Turning Japanese as sung by The Vapors. Rife with stereotypes in both music AND music video, the guys talk about the creepy lyrics and the line between paying homage to a culture and shitting all over it.
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180 - Greased Lightning
June 3rd, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
back problems, grease, grease the movie, grease the musical, john travolta, pain pill addiction
Seth and Marc throw on some white t-shirts, slick their pompadours up with some pomade, and look under the hood of the musical-turned-hit-single Greased Lightning. Watch out if the kids are in the car as these lyrics contain some pretty strange sexual terms and complete lack of knowledge about cars.
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179 - That Summer
May 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
chris gaines, country music, garth brooks, improper workplace etiquette, leather hands, power imbalance, that summer, the chase
Seth basks in the glory of country music and Marc sits idly by as they dissect the lyrics to the predatory That Summer by Garth Brooks. Listen to the tale of Ol' Leatherhands and what she does to a teenage boy.
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178 - Bad Medicine
May 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
bad medicine, bon jovi, jon bongiovi, new jersey, terrible medical analogies
Seth and Marc need 10cc's of medical knowledge given to Bon Jovi STAT! The guys try to figure out what makes medicine "bad," why no one else is able to help the narrator, and discuss fake endings.
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177 - High Hopes
May 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
brendon urie, capitalism run amok, high holes, mainfest destiny, panic at the disco, panic! at the disco, the crusades
Marc and Seth invite guest and dear friend Mike to look through the unrecommended-history-laden lyrics of High Hopes by Panic! At The Disco. What's worse: Making people who never made it feel like absolute trash or bringing up Manifest Destiny?
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176 - Mmmbop
May 6th, 2024 | 46 mins 28 secs
flowers, hanson, middle of nowhere, mmmbop, scatting, teenage lyrics
The guys dismantle a song that was described as "unintelligible" by one critic; Hanson's breakaway single Mmmbop. A mixture of "did you know" and "these lyrics were written by teenagers," we discuss how good they sound now and the possibilities of knowing which flowers you're planting.
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175 - My Life Would Suck Without You
April 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
kelly clarkson, let him go, my life would suck without you, self-gaslighting
Marc and Seth work through Kelly Clarkson's single "My Life Would Suck Without You," her self-professed "anti-boy-bashing song." The thing is if there was ever a time for her to bash a guy, it would be now. Don't sell yourself out, Kelly!
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174 - Cumbersome
April 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
7 mary 3, american standard, cumbersome, david and goliath, poetry, seven mary three
The guys dig deep into the high school poetry that makes up the lyrics of 7 Mary 3's hit Cumbersome. Overflowing with self-reference and Eddie Vedder's impressions, this song will make it so you don't know if you're coming or going. Oh yeah, no. Yeah yeah, no no. Yeah. No.
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173 - Family Man
April 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
family man, hall and oates. daryl hall, houses of ill repute, john oates, restraining order, sex work
Seth and Marc talk Hall & Oates with their cover of the Mike Oldfield-penned Family Man. A sex worker propositions a man who rebuffs her advances while also telling her that if she keeps asking, he might say yes. Who is in the wrong here and does he give in?
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172 - We Built This City
April 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 14 mins
jefferson airplane, jefferson starship, rock and roll architecture, starship, we built this city
Seth and Marc revisit a band they haven't talked about since episode 3... Starship's "We Built This City." Highly regarded as one of the worst songs of the 80's by some publications and one of the worst songs ever by others, where do the guys think it stacks up?
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171 - Holding Out For A Hero
April 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
bonnie tyler, footloose, holding out for a hero, time-sensitive herocism, unrealistic standards
Marc and Seth read off the litany of prerequisites to be Bonnie Tyler's titular hero in Holding Out For A Hero and feel bad about themselves. Also, why does she need someone who is fresh from a fight? What is she not telling us? And what does this have to do with Footloose?!
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170 - Dancing In The Moonlight
March 25th, 2024 | 42 mins 6 secs
boffalongo, dancing in the moonlight, king harvest, song stories, wowzers
The dudes look at the lyrics to King Harvest's twinkly version of Dancing In The Moonlight. However, it's the story behind the song that is the much bigger reveal here.
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169 - That'll Be The Day
March 18th, 2024 | 51 mins 26 secs
buddy holly, buddy holly and the crickets, manipulation, mind games, sexism, that'll be the day, the crickets, the day the music died
Seth and Marc unfurl the lyrics to The Crickets' (by the way of Buddy Holly) hit That'll Be The Day. Does it surprise us that this song is filled with a litany of different kinds of mental manipulation? No, not at all. Are we going to still cover it? Absolutely.
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168 - It Wasn't Me
March 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 32 mins
gaslighting, it wasn't me, lawdavmercy, orville burnell, reggae, rikrok, shabby
Seth and Marc invite past guest Jamie on to discuss the lyrics to Shaggy's reggae-ish gaslighting anthem "It Wasn't Me." Lots of questions on this one.... about how him getting busted went down, whether or not he truly wanted to be caught, or if Shaggy really exists at all....
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167 - A.D.I.D.A.S.
March 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
a.d.i.d.a.s., adidas, all day i dream about sex, jonathan davis, korn, morgues
This week, the dudes go through the koRn hit A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Sex). This song is so bad that it pushed guitarist "Head" to quit the band to find Christ.
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166 - Possession
February 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
big yikes, fumbling toward ecstasy, obsession, possession, sarah mclaughlin, stalkers
Marc and Seth dig into the dark story behind the Sarah McLaughlin's breakout hit Possession. One of those cases of a song that people use in their wedding but the truth behind it has much sadder, and creepier, roots.