Help catalog usage of background music in This American Life

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They have certain favorites they like to use again and again, and I want to figure out their pattern:

Here's one from this week:
"Hip Hop Cure Loop"
context: story about quirky misunderstanding

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411DNCRDX1L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Eternal_sunshine_CD_cover.jpg/200px-Eternal_sunshine_CD_cover.jpg

Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago)

http://static.boomkat.com/images/114992/333.jpg

Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Endtroducingcover.jpg/200px-Endtroducingcover.jpg

9. WDYLL (Feat. Nice & Smooth) (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago)

I mean more like what kind of stories do they like to pair up with certain songs.

Like there's one hip hop song that always seems to play when the protagonist is in a rough neighborhood or something, but I don't remember the name of it.

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

Still Dre maybe?

9. WDYLL (Feat. Nice & Smooth) (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-afioLMcEc

I think that's it

9. WDYLL (Feat. Nice & Smooth) (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago)

Someone tell me where to find a parody of This American Life, complete with musical cues. Because I will be shocked if it doesn't already exist. I like it a lot, but it practically begs to get teased.

Pooping And Crying (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:04 (fifteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure Harry Shearer has done this

9. WDYLL (Feat. Nice & Smooth) (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah that's it! They removed the vocals or looped it somehow but that's it!

Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago)

There's an instrumental version of it that they use.

Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvVTRqIgJ_0

Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Thursday, 10 December 2009 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

What's the song that starts playing at 1:00:56?

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=396

Leee, Sunday, 24 January 2010 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

they use theme from ghost dog a lot.

Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:22 (fifteen years ago)

also ratatat

f1ocki (s1ocki), Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)

this shit gets on my nerves. i think there may even be a thread about it.

by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:09 (fifteen years ago)

jaymc, tell me more about that bexar bexar record. the only thing of his/theirs i've heard is a fourth of july fireworks field recording with minimal accompaniment; it's gorgeous.

Joint Custody (ian), Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

isn't j h0pp3r responsible for the music on this show? i thought she was their music consultant. maybe she just does some of it? i have no idea.

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 February 2010 04:34 (fifteen years ago)

ten years pass...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5IgtMW2vo8p4Gd6Jn3ABUZ

jaymc, Saturday, 14 March 2020 01:17 (five years ago)

(300+ track playlist of music used on TAL)

jaymc, Saturday, 14 March 2020 01:19 (five years ago)


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