Episode 581: In America, Slipknot is Funny
On the Overthikning It Podcast we tackle about “Blinded by the Light,” in which a Pakistani boy growing up outside London discovers Bruce Springsteen.
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Bruce Springsteen on Overthinking It
Episode 247: The Way to Get It Up is to Remember How Good It Used To Be
On the TFT Podcast, we tackle Meat Loaf’s 1993 follow up to his smash “Bat Out Of Hell,” “Bat Out Of Hell II: Back into Hell.”
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Episode 99: I’m Bruce Springsteen and I Approve This Message
The TFT Podcast continues its historical overview of popular music with a look at Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.”
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Breaking Bad: Albuquerque City
Heading into the last half-season of Breaking Bad, we present a song about Heisenberg by way of The Boss. (BREAKING BAD SPOILERS)
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Open Thread for January 20, 2012
All right, Overthinkers, packs up and line up near the door. When this light turns green, this thread is gonna open up! Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire opens this weekend to pretty positive reviews. Bruce Springsteen debuted his angry new single, “We … Continued
Clarence Clemons (1942-2011)
Overthinking It pays tribute to Clarence Clemons through his genius sax solo on “Jungleland.”
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The 10 Best Mashups on Girl Talk’s “All Day” (Part Two)
The greatest pop music artifact of 2010 gets Overthought. Part Two of Two.
Episode 66: The Duality of Man
The Overthinkers are joined by Amanda Marcotte to (re)tackle l’affaire Polanski. They have difficulty staying on topic.
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Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.
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Born In The USA: Our Most Misappropriated Patriotic Song?
“America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside our hearts,” Ronald Reagan said. “It rests in the message of hope in the songs of a man so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.”
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