We Really Snapped on This One—Debating Songs by FKA Twigs, Kim Deal, and More
The Waste or Taste team discusses Twigs’ ‘Eusexua’ era, the solo debut of Breeders/Pixies hero Kim Deal, and a new electronic genre with BPMs over 200
Talking about music with your friends, trying to make them laugh, and playfully arguing about albums and songs—these are some of the best parts of working at a music website. With our podcast Waste or Taste, we capture that kind of unfiltered banter between longtime critics and friends, and invite you to listen along.
The concept is simple: Every episode, three Hearing Things founders each bring a new song to the table and debate whether it’s Waste or Taste. Sometimes we will reach a critical consensus; other times it will be fisticuffs, absurdity, or both.
This week, our host Jill Mapes sits down with Andy Cush and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd to decide whether Kim Deal’s surprisingly symphonic “Nobody Loves You More,” FKA Twigs’ possibly pretentious “Drums of Death,” and Alex Reed’s brain-breaking BPM workout “Hit ’Em Dreamgirl” are Waste or Taste. Side topics include the true-crime TV show Snapped, great musicians from Ohio, and songs made for sex dungeons.
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Waste or Taste is a co-production of Hearing Things and 3dB. We’re produced by Mark Yoshizumi and Elia Einhorn. The show is recorded at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in Downtown Brooklyn.
