Strong Songs

2 May 2025 04:00

Bluey, Background Jazz, and the 'Best' Metal Guitar Solo

How should you count The Police's "Bed's Too Big Without You?" Why do so many people revere Marty Friedman's solo on Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls"? What's going on with those pauses during the Bluey theme? And what the heck is that sound on Sly and the Family Stone's "Sex Machine"? Those questions and many more on the first mailbag episode of Season Seven.

Thanks to Nevada Jones (voice) and Scott Pemberton (guitar) for their expert contributions!

REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:

"Bed's Too Big Without You" by The Police from The Police, 1979
"Thirty One" by Lydian Collective from Adventure, 2018
"4K Cozy Coffee Shop with Smooth Piano Jazz Music for Relaxing, Studying and Working" on YouTube
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playbook by Liz Pelly, 2025, and a Harper's excerpt about Spotify's "Perfect Fit Content" initiative
"Executive Blend," "Funky Fanfare," by Keith Mansfield, and "Organ Mania" by Keith Mansfield and Alan Hawkshaw from KPM 1000 Series, Vol. 1
"Tornado of Souls" by Megadeth from Rust in Peace, 1990
"Sex Machine" by Sly and the Family Stone from Stand!, 1969
"Show Me The Way" by Peter Frampton from Frampton, 1974
"Bluey Theme" by Joff Bush
"The Organic Sound of Bluey, with Sound Designer Dan Brumm" - Twenty Thousand Hertz
Demonstration of the Kustom Electronics Bag Talkbox