Episode 224: High Fidelity (2020)

Apr 1, 2020

Summary:

 

"The things that you like are more important than what you are like." This week Lisa and Andrea get to nerd out on music as we dig into the new gender-swapped TV adaptation of High Fidelity. Also discussed: the Stranger, In the Dream House, and Andrea reveals one of her secret superhero powers.

 

Please note this episode was recorded on Feb. 24, 2020. 

 

 

Show notes:

 

Dig Into High Fidelity’s Best Deep Cuts, Then Go Deeper (Vulture)

 

High Fidelity and the Never-Ending Age of the Music Know-It-All (Paste)

 

Pop This! Episode 139: Ocean's 8 (Stitcher)

 

We Didn’t Need the High Fidelity TV Show (Pitchfork)

 

"The Weight" by the Band (YouTube)

 

Recommendations:

Lisa:  The Stranger (Netflix)

Andrea W.:  In The Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado (book)


Music credits:

"Good Times" by Podington Bear
From Free Music Archive
CC BY 3.0

 

Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod

From Incompetch

CC BY 3.0

Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst

Courtesy of Free Music Archive

CC BY-SA 3.0 NL

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