🎙️ Songs That Don’t Suck — Episode 62
Eclipses, TikTok fame, Spotify madness, and a dose of AI-generated music rebellion.
🌕 Eclipses, AI, and Pirate Metal — Oh My!
Hey friends, welcome back to your weekly dose of musical sanity! 🎧
This week’s episode brings a delicious mix of cosmic alignment, digital weirdness, and some damn fine tunes.
☀️🌑 Eclipse + Pink Floyd = Magic
Mark’s TikTok exploded thanks to a brilliantly nerdy breakdown of how to sync Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to the April 8th total solar eclipse.
🕒 TL;DR:
Find your totality time, subtract 42 min & 14 sec, and hit play on the album.
The lyric “But the sun is eclipsed by the moon” will line up perfectly. 🤯
Your stoner roommate in 2006 just nodded in approval.
💥 Viral Spotify Playlist Names
Mark takes a detour through Spotify’s search rabbit hole with absurd playlist titles that you need to check out:
- Pirate Metal Shanty Mix 🏴☠️
- Spooky Evil Gay Mix 👻🏳️🌈
- Goblin Core 🍄
- Angry Whistling Mix 😤🎵
- Farm Emo 🚜💔
- Princess Core 👑
He promises a full review next week after 10 hours of road-testing these bizarre mixes. Buckle up. 🚗💨
🤖 AI Music Is Getting Weird
Enter Suno — an AI music generator that lets you create songs from prompts.
He warns of a future filled with robo-music and ghost-streaming scams… but also shares the AI-generated theme song for this podcast (scroll down to learn how to listen). 🤖🎤
🎶 This Week’s Songs That Don’t Suck
1. Revolver – St. Luca
🌊 Surf punk meets fuzzy indie rock.
- From San Diego, with sonic textures that combine reverb-soaked guitar work and dynamic shifts.
- Guitar flourishes and loud/quiet contrast make headphones a must.
RIYL: Wavves, Ty Segall, early Pixies
2. Carry the World – Augustana
🌌 Ballad vibes with indie rock teeth.
- Frontman Dan Layus is the only original member left, and it shows in the matured sound.
- Think Journey if they met Death Cab for Cutie halfway.
- A heartfelt return for fans of “Boston.”
3. Sailing Home – Chris Helme
🍂 Moody, melodic indie folk perfection.
- Former lead singer of The Seahorses (Oasis-adjacent Brit rock).
- Sparse, melancholic instrumentation, upright bass, hand percussion.
- Strong “Dust in the Wind” vibes without being derivative.
4. Basement Apartment – Sarah Harmer (From the Vault)
🏠 Singer-songwriter gold from 2000.
- Mark’s throwback pick: a lyrical, lived-in portrait of early adulthood.
- Sarah’s voice is effortless, and the album You Were Here is a must-listen.
- Emotional and nostalgic in the best way.
🖼️ …and I quote…
“This isn’t the automation we wanted. We were promised help with spreadsheets, not the destruction of art.”
—Mark Bradbourne, Ep. 62
🔊 Bonus: The AI-Generated Theme Song
Yes, it happened. And yes, it’s wild.
🎧 “This is the sound of rebellion… Songs That Don’t Suck like a real thing!”
Listen at the end of the episode to hear it in all it’s glory(?)
🎤 AI punk meets mallcore rage meets… optimism?
Until next week… keep searching for and listening to songs that don’t suck. 🎵
