A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
Blink-155 podcast Another podcast that aims to cover a band’s entire career, Blink-155 is an effort by Canadian musicians and writers Sam Sutherland and Josiah Hughes to provide incredibly in-depth analyses of all 155 songs Blink-182 has written and recorded, one song per episode. The episodes are hilarious, with plenty of sarcastic bite, and an astounding amount of thought and research goes into each one. Sutherland and Hughes occasionally welcome guests to the podcast, including Canadian punks such as Mish Way of White Lung and Ben Cook of No Warning and Fucked Up.
Dolly Parton If you’ve ever heard the saga of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, you know she’s a deep lover. The fact that she wrote “I Will Always Love You” for Porter, who basically tried to usurp her talent, blows my mind. She wrote one of the most bitchin’ songs of all time—and growing up, she slept four to a bed with her brothers and sisters and often woke up covered in somebody’s pee. She is a god.
