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S03 E14: M It's our 100th episode.That's all you need to know.Enjoy!PLAYLISTU2 - The Streets Have No NamesSam Roberts - Hard RoadSesame Street Theme SongThe Bees - End of the StreetRed Hot Chilli Peppers - Road Trippin'Simon and Garfunkel -59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)Of Montreal - Oslo in the Summertime Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E13: Jetlag Arsty conceptual photograph ora poor understanding of how glass works?You decide!What?Late July?Really?Oh... well, in Paris, podcasts don't air until weeks after they are recorded. Very continental... very sophisticated.Actually, it's been a busy time for us and we've just gotten around to editing a session done while Tyler was in Paris. The wait was worth it, though. Why, you can almost smell the Seine in this week's episode.And don't fear, the big #100 is coming up very soon. If you've go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E12: Domo in the City As summer bursts onto the scene, people are packing their bags and hitting the road. Some leave the city to head to the country; others do the opposite; others still stay put and rediscover the place they call home. As part of a summertime arc, this week's episode focuses on songs about the city. Given our backgrounds, you can imagine how hard it was to collect the music... well, to cut down the list. Enjoy!This is Domo. Lover of cities. Real class act.Fun fact: Alissa is one of seventeen p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E11: Lavigne and Poutine So apparently the picture of Alissa dressed-up as Avril Lavigne is so oldthat it pre-dates the ubiquity of digital cameras. Until we can locatethe original print, this will have to do.If Tyler sounds less erudite or eloquent this week, this is why.(In Quebec, poutine is the word for, "I love you".)Umm... did you see the two photos above? What's the point of writing the usual intro paragraph here? If those two pictures don't get you clicking to hear this week's episode, what will? It's that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E10: He Said, She Said Why doesn't anyone play Six Degrees from Elizabeth Perkins?Tyler: Given the theme of this episode, we've split the requisite intro paragraph into two parts: one for me, the other for Alissa. You see, this week we cover duets about the highs and lows of love, about the Mars/Venus divide between the sexes. It's quite clever, if I do say so myself. Enjoy!Alissa: Since Alissa usually lets me do the writing here, I'm just going to fill this in with a few casual insults directed towards my co-hos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E09: The Name Game This week we explore the vast repertoire of songs named after people. And vast is no exaggeration; we could have easily just played the many songs (and covers thereof) entitled, "Gloria". So we hope you like the idea, because in all likelihood we'll be revisiting this trove of tunes again in the future. Enjoy!Don't get the wrong idea. Slim Shady will not make an appearance.PLAYLISTShirley Ellis - The Name GameDolly Parton - Jolene (the Grammy's performance by Jones, Mayer & Urban)Bobby ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E08: An Inferior Race (Part 2) Well, this is embarrassing...We really shouldn't have gone for a two-parter. At least, not with this title. Turns out a lot can happen in a couple of weeks. An election campaign can veer towards interesting. Oh, and while we're at it, royalty can get married, terrorists can get killed and televisions shows can shine. At least the unpredictability of world events makes for a killer conversation this week. Enjoy!PLAYLISTOK Go - Here It Goes AgainThe Beach Boys - Darlin'Modest Mouse - Ocean Br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E06: An Inferior Race (Part 1) A Prime-Ministerial race, that is. Yes, we couldn't help but get underwhelmed by the current election campaign here on Awkward Silences, so this week we talk politics. As you can imagine, we have a lot of positive things to say about everyone running and particularly kind words for the campaign as a whole. There's something about voting that brings out mankind's more noble qualities, no? Enjoy!Yes we can!PLAYLISTThe Detroit Cobras - Baby Let Me Hold Your HandCat Power - He WarThe Beatles - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E06: It's a Living It's been far too long since we've had a theme episode, and so this week we're tackling the subject of work, while listening to songs doing very much the same. Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Vogues - Five O'Clock WorldTennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen TonsLee Dorsey - Workin' in a Coal MineEddie Cochran - Summertime BluesElvis Costello - Welcome to the Working WeekThe Ramones - It's Not My Place (In The 9 to 5 World)The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable NowLoverboy - Working for the WeekendBachman-Turner ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E05: Hit the Streets You never quite know what you'll encounter when you leave the secure comfort of home to pound the pavement and explore the streets. You may discover a charming downtown, a festive parade or a wall of water...Take a walk with us this week as we talk about what's currently making news in the streets. All this plus Andy Rooney!PLAYLISTThe Raveonettes - My Boyfriend's BackTV on the Radio - DLZThe Lemonheads - My Hero, ZeroJenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Melt Your HeartStevie Wonder - We Can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E04: Here and Now Where did the time go? March? Really?A variety of topics this week: not much on planning, but a lot on recent cultural happenings. If there's an overriding theme , it might be "current perspectives on one's sense of place and identity", but there probably isn't one, really. Just enjoy!We're the Franco/Hathaway of the InternetPLAYLISTJ.Lo feat. Pit Bull - On The FloorLuke Doucet - You Gotta Get ItTragically Hip - BobcaygeonArianne Moffatt - MontréalWolf Parade - Soldier's GrinLuke Doucet an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E03: Be Mine Considering Valentine's Day is tomorrow, the holiday garners little attention this week. We do, however, discuss Alissa's new-found affection of Philidelphia's neighbourhoods; discuss the lovely awkwardness that love brings to our beloved The Office; and play some music we adore. Oh, also, we try to solve the free market/government intervention quandary in twenty shambling minutes. What could be more romantic? Enjoy!P.S. Let us know what you think of the intro. Actually, let us know what y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E02: Devil's Advocate Just to play devil's advocate here for a second, do we really need these little intro paragraphs? I mean, I bet most people just click on the episode title and listen to the show when they want to discover the contents, not read someone's exercise in self-aggrandizement through cheeky writing. Hmm... maybe this is all a bit hypocritical. Anyway, enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like YouTommy James and the Shondells - I Think We're Alone NowMarvin Gaye - What's Going OnSleater Kin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S03 E01: Get on Board (The Train) No need for an intro when we're so awesome:Pictured: Our awesomeness, Lego-fiedPLAYLISTQuad City Djs - C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)French Kicks - Said So WhatJenny and Johnny - AnimalArcade Fire - Keep the Car RunningJack Johnson - Good PeoplePeter, Bjorn and John - AmsterdamNat King Cole - Almost Like Being In LoveLINKSHamilton's vision for LRT revealedMontreal's exhibit on the heritage of rue Ste-CatherineToronto police officer killed in snowplow jacking'Money for Nothing' in dire straits ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E39: The Call In what some marketing mavens might call a BONUS EPISODE, we sit down with SURP alumnus Adam Bentley and talk about his new film project, Call of the City. Wow... we suddenly sound like adults. It's a neat conversation about the draw of the city, film-making, and Internet fund-raising. Cheers.PLAYLISTOhbijou - Black IceOhbijou - New Years Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E38: DO they know it's Christmas? It's hard to say...Greetings, all! We've crammed more yuletide tidings into one hour and five minutes than legally allowed. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas, everyone!PLAYLISTDarlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)The Nightmare Before Christmas - What's This?Fucked Up - Do They Know It's Christmas?Bob Rivers - Walking Round in Women's UnderwearThe Ramones - Merry ChristmasSufjan Stevens - It's Christmas! Let's Be GladHanson - Merry Christmas BabyJohn Denver and the Mupppets - Christmas W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E37: Off Track For the record, our clever little title for this episode in no way reflects a sudden decrease in the quality of the Awkward Silences Radio Show (I'm pretty sure that's impossible - Ha! *rimshot). Rather, this week we talk about some serious issues that worry us, like transit planning problems; leaks, freedom of speech and the Internet; and ups-and-downs of city life and modern society. All this, and a special guest appearance by Ms. Sally Struthers! Enjoy!PLAYLISTPaul Simon - KodachromeBill ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E36: The 'Burbs This week on Awkward Silences, we tackle the suburbs by way of The Arcade Fire's new album of that name. We also manage to tie in discussions on live concerts, Glee, growing up, the Tea Party movement, World Town Planning Day and Nazis. With a line up like that, who needs jokes in the introduction?Also, apologies to Andrew Morton. We finished recording the episode approximately twenty minutes before he both commented on last week's show and added himself as a follower. Thanks Andrew!PLAYLIS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E35: Earworms for the New Milenium Folks, there are a few good reasons to get excited for this week's dose of the Show. First of all, it's one of our always-enjoyable (as in, the only other time we've done this, the number of letter-bombs waned for a week) earworm episodes; second of all, we're only playing popular music from the last ten years (You won't learn anything new today. Hooray!). Third and last of all, you won't have to confront Robbie Ford's bloated, ogre-like visage at the top of the posts anymore. Double hooray ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E34: The Robbie Ford Horror Show Well folks, some of you may be partying it up, others giving out candy, still others getting ready for the dreary cold of November. Whatever the case, we here at Awkward Silences have dreamt up a fantasy world of hope and joy for you this week. Allow yourselves to be transported to the land of faeries and gumdrops, as we explore the enchanting world of... municipal politics. Enjoy! What a jolly fellow. (Picture taken after consuming an orphan.)PLAYLISTThe Beach Boys - The Monster MashSheb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E33: Views Get ready for some sassy 'pinions, people!PLAYLISTThe Dandy Warhols - SolidJason Collett - Reunion (Stars Cover)Enon - MonsoonFleetwood Mac - GypsyAllison Williams - Mad Men Theme Song...with a TwistLangley Schools Music Project - DesperadoFleetwood Mac - DustInterpol - No I in ThreesomeLINKSUrban Repair Squad (Blog Site)Hammertown Public Space Department (Anti-gentrification group)It Gets Better FCKH8 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E32: Back to Work Alright, alright... the hiatus was a nice change of pace, but it's time to get down to business. For us, that is. Listeners can carry on goofing around. Enjoy!PLAYLISTSmokey Robinson - Tears of a ClownKaiser Chiefs - Oh My GodJenny Lewis - CarpetbaggerThe Velvet Underground - Oh Sweet Nuthin'LINKSGay teenage suicides in the news recently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E31: Together Again What's that? There's a September? Where? Here, right now? Ending really soon? Oops...Howdy folks. We've been asked if ASR is on hiatus. The answer is no and/or not anymore!Turns out radical live changes can lead to different schedules. Go figure. But fear not, we're back (and not because of any contract requirements, we assure you). This week's (month's?) episode is a doozy and will comfortably feed 4-6 average-sized listeners. Probably enough talk here to last you for weeks. Are you glad y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E30: Ya Dig? Here we go, folks: the long-awaited "Hip" Episode. Not that we're all that hip, or the show is very hip. Not sure the music is, either. But we say the word "hip" a lot. That's hip, right?Enjoy... just not ironically, please.PLAYLISTThe Tragically Hip - PoetsLou Reed - Perfect DayElla Fitzgerald and Louie Armstrong - They Can't Take That Away From MeJanelle Monae - Tightrope (another great live performance here)LCD Soundsystem - Losing My EdgeHuey Lewis and the News - Hip to Be SquareLINKSHi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E29: The Itch We here at Awkward Silences are clever people, but only clever enough to land half of the witty jabs we throw. Case in point: The Itch is a good episode title this week, since we deal with guilty pleasures, those songs that lurk in the recesses of your brain, urging you to indulge in them, even though you shouldn't. Hardy-har!Oh, but had we managed to work in the detail that Tyler developed a rash from poison ivy over the weekend, well, that would have been brilliant, no? In any case, if th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E28: Games People Play We haven't had a good rant episode lately (some people would say we haven't had a good episode, period. Jerks.), but this week, well... if you don't end up passionate about stadium construction in Hamilton by the end of the show, there's no hope for you. Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Stars - Wasted DaylightsThe Stars - We Don't Want Your Body The Stars - ChangesLINKSTiger-Cat owner Bob Young's letter stating their rejection of the West-Harbour site (May 2010)Facilitator Michael Fenn's Report (July 6, 2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E27: Quick Fix Why hello, listeners. Were you waiting for an episode that never came last week? Oh dear. Well, the good news is we've got all new content this week. Bad news: Alissa's not there for all of it. But we'll be back to normal next week. Cheers!(How fresh...)PLAYLISTI'm not telling. So there.LINKSThe interesting link between Inception's main score and a song they use in the film. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E25: Playing Catch-Up Did you miss us? Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Rascals - Groovin'The Byrds - Turn, Turn, TurnOtis Redding - The Dock of the BaySanto & Johnny - Sleep Walk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E25: Let's Talk Howdy folks. Normally this space is reserved for wit, but with little to say about this week's episode (apart from, "It's swell") how about some priming for that "Hip" episode coming up? Check out the graphic below:Does this make sense or ring true? Let's get the discussion going: we want to hear your thoughts about being hip, however you define it. Seriously, we do. It really cuts down the work for us...PLAYLISTSally Seltmann - Dream About ChangingThe Exciters - Tell HimThe Doves - Here I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E24: Gee Whiz Nothing of interest happened this past week, so don't expect any serious discussion in this week's episode. Nope. Nothing at all.Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War Babyshambles - You TalkInterpol - Heinrich ManeoverBlock Party - Price of Gas Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E23: Oh Little Fire Has summer humidity permanently affixed you upon the couch?Don't dreary doldrums, demanding docility, deserve defiance?Doesn't the comedic law of thirds require another question here?If you answered yes to any of these, you may want to look around and make sure nobody caught you talking to a computer. Also, you'll probably enjoy this week's episode; nothing like heady discussions of planning to light a fire under you!PLAYLISTStars - FixedSarah Harmer - CaptiveTom Petty & The Heartbreake ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E22: Sharing the Road We hope you enjoy the shorter episode this week. Don't think of it as less show; but rather, the same show with twenty minutes of extra time afterwards you can devote to whatever you like! Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Cars - Just What I NeededMetric - Front RowTegan & Sara - Red BeltNeil Young - Cinnamon GirlLINKSAndrew Clark of the Globe & Mail comes across as a jerk (aka the Great Canadian Cyclist Exam) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E21: Summer in the City I'd type a proper into this week, but A) it's too hot, and b) I'm worried about getting Popsicle juice all over the keyboard. Enjoy!PLAYLISTLen - Steal My SunshineDick Dale and the Del Tones - MisirlouMartha and the Vandellas - HeatwaveChubby Checker - Let's Twist AgainEddie Cochran - Summertime BluesThe Drifters - Under the BoardwalkRod Stewart - Maggie MayBachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of BusinessGolden Earring - Radar LoveBruce Springsteen - Dancing in the DarkThe Go Go's - We Go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E20: Aloha Howdy. To be honest, faithful listeners, while we realize you all have lives beyond this podcast, it's usually a bit, well, disconcerting when a week's episode doesn't seem to garner much interest. We try, most often, to make our scatter-shot musings palatable to others, after all.But this week's episode...Well, look, we get it. If your not a fan of LOST, you won't find 45+ minutes of discussion about the series finale all that entertaining. Heck, maybe even if you are a fan. But of course ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E19: The Right Click In what seems to be a theme developing here, this week's episode focuses on what's wrong with a host of problems plaguing the planet. Not that anyone asked us; we're just really helpful. Unless you're suicidal... best not listen. So, everyone but Tom, enjoy!PLAYLISTThe 1990's - You Made MePlacebo - Summer's GoneThe Cure - Close To MeFeist - Past and PresentTV on the Radio - ProvinceThe Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah SongLINKSJimmy Kimmel's Lost skitJim Henson died twenty years ago Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E18: White Mothers' Day Frankly, I would think an episode of Awkward Silences that uses TWO images of Betty White in its post needn't a text description: you should have already developed a rug burn on your pointer finger from clicking the link in such a hurry to sample the Mothers' Day-sized awesomeness within. I may be biased, mind you. Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Who - Won't Get Fooled AgainPearl Jam - FaithfulWeeping Tile - Basement ApartmentBroken Social Scene - Sentimental X'sDelgados - I Fought The AngelsRam Jam - Bl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E17: Labour of Love Alternate name for this episode: "Spill, Baby, Spill". Enjoy!PLAYLISTShe & Him - In The SunHeart - Magic ManOranger - Mr. SandmanThe Guess Who - LaughingThe Kossoy Sisters and Erik Darling - Bowling GreenThe Libertines - Music When The Lights Go OutLINKSSURP 2009 Alumni blog: http://surp.tumblr.com/Fascinating Oil Spill Pictures Ireland's Ghost Estates The 1939 World's Fair & ProgressWyoming's Safe Haven Laws for infants Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E16: Boldly Go After last week's wallow-fest, it's time to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off (no shower required) and head off for new horizons. Buckle up, A.S. fans... Away we go!(*Cue random topics)PLAYLISTLily Allen - LDNThe Klaxons - Golden SkansDeath In Vegas - Scorpio RisingEmbee featuring José González - Send Someone AwayThe Subways - I Want To Hear What You Have Got To SayYou Say Party! I Say Die! - MonsterLINKSCity eyes S&R buildingSex education curriculum causes uproarProposed Hamilton ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E15: Dark Days Umm... Happy Spring, everybody!PLAYLISTMarvin Gaye - Mercy, Mercy MeVera Lynn - We'll Meet AgainIron & Wine - DieJason Collette - FireThe New Pornographers - FailsafeThe Clash - Spanish BombsColdplay - We Never ChangeDeath Cab For Cutie - Follow You Into The DarkLINKSPaddling in Texas schoolsRetoxing in UK prisons Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E14: Mixed Nuts You're going to love our nuts: Enjoy!PLAYLISTWolf Parade - California DreamerLand of Talk - Young BrideThe Beatles - Hello GoodbyeRadiohead - House of CardsBlondie - Sunday GirlNelly Furtado - Hey ManLINKSAuto-Tune the NewsSlap Chop RapMalcolm Gladwell on PlagiarismDetroit's Urban Agriculture Project Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E13: In Our Step Does it really matter what's written in this post? Aren't you just dying to hear this week's episode to the point where you'll just click away without reading? Or is it that we can't think of anything witty to write this week? You be the judge...PLAYLISTThe Beatles - Here Comes The SunU2 - Beautiful DayLovin' Spoonful - DaydreamScott McKenzie - San FranciscoNina Simone - Spring is HereSimon & Garfunkel - At The ZooBadly Drawn Boy - The ShiningLINKSSumo @ Queen's deemed discriminatory.Ni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E12: We're Stereo-types This week, we look at people who criticize others. We then go on and criticize them. And others. Or is it The Others... enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night TogetherThe Detroit Cobras - Laughing at YouMetric - Front RowThe Radio Dept. - Pulling Our WeightBlur - Music Is My RadarGoldfrapp - A&ELINKSAnn Coulter getting more press than she deservesMontreal Mosaic (deserves more press) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E11: Going Overboard Remember last week? When you gave us a mound of disparate topics and music to weave together? Well, we were worried about fitting it all in, but we did, mostly, and wouldn't you know it if we didn't end right on the one-hour mark.Well, this week was one of those We're-both-kind-of-tired-and-can't-think-of-anything-to-talk-about kind of weeks. So we set a few extra music tracks aside. You can check the length: yep, that's right... it's becoming a general rule that we always go over in these ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E10: Being Awkward Silences Hmm, writing this little introductory paragraph to this week's episode seems to be the only creative thought we've required this week; it's all been in the hands of our listeners. Thanks, friends: We're one step away from the Witczak, Szilagyi & Brutus Hour, which has been our plan all along...PLAYLISTMouret - RondeauWeezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You ToThe White Stripes - We Are Going To Be FriendsAlison Krauss and Robert Plant - Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Move ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E09: We're Oscar Wild(e) Oh, puns...You're probably reading this after the Academy Awards, an so this Oscar-themed episode won't seem nearly as timely or as clever as it was when we first conceived the idea, but then again, when have we ever lived up to our own expectations? Enjoy!PLAYLISTThe Way You Look Tonight - Swing Time (1936) http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=93731Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz (1939) http://www.metacafe.com/watch/859392/judy_garland_somewhere_over_the_rainbow/Swinging on a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E08: Dreaming in Technicolor It makes sense, on a grey winter's day, to add a little colour to one's life, no? This week, join us ask we daydream about Betty White, The Man in Black and, musically, everything in between.PLAYLISTUB40 - Red, Red WineLed Zeppelin - TangerineDonovan - Mellow YellowIncubus - A Certain Shade of Green (Acoustic)Dishwalla - Counting Blue CarsJimi Hendrix - Purple HazeThe Rolling Stones - Paint It BlackCounting Crows - ColourblindLINKSSome insightful comments on "The Lighthouse" (Lost)Levar Bur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E07: A New Chapter Why are you reading this? Reading's for squares, for nerds! Why read when you can listen to this week's episode? I bet Miley Cyrus doesn't read...PLAYLISTThe Magic Numbers - Mornings ElevenAmy Millan - Skinny BoyThe Kooks - Ooh LaDeath Cab For Cutie - Title and RegistrationJosé González - HintsDJ Shadow - Six Days Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E06: The L Word This week, albeit inadvertently, we discuss love. We all love the Olympics, right? And heritage buildings? What about Jim, from The Office? Pedestrians, of course? Hmm, maybe not everyone... cue the music.PLAYLISTKaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less & LessBen Folds Five - Song For The DumpedBat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?Goldfrapp - HappinessBlack Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your LoveMike Doughty - I Hear The BellsLINKSIt's okay to be grumpy about the OlympicsWhy no one lik ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E05: Getting Wiser Greetings!Normally, here you'd find some sort of introductory paragraph outlining the content of this week's episode, usually in an overly perspicacious fashion and coming across as a sorry attempt to sound "hip". That's all well and good, but today is Tyler's birthday, so instead, here is a picture of him at age 5:Rock on, man-child, rock on.PLAYLISTThe Dirty Projectors - Knotty PineSpoon - I Saw The LightArcade Fire - LeninFeist and Ben Gibbard - Train SongMiley Cyrus - Party In The USAEl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website LOST a.k.a. se2e4That's right folks: if you're a fan of LOST, this is your episode, filled with analysis, speculation and series-related tunes. If you are not a fan, well, you have a few days yet to watch five seasons' worth of T.V. in preparation for the season premiere on Tuesday. Get going!PLAYLISTBuddy Holly - Everyday (S05E11)Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight (multiple episodes)Brenda Lee - I Wonder (S03E05)The Police - Message in a BottleJohn Denver - Leaving on a Jet PlaneLed Zeppelin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E03: The Road Less Travelled Where do we go from here, faithful listeners? That seems to be the overall theme of this episode, if you had to think about it (we did). Hmm... a rhetorical question from two twenty-something nerds concerned with the uncertainty surrounding our times? Cue the Indie music!PLAYLISTBrand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin LightMinus The Bear - This Ain't A Surfin' MovieWolf Parade - Shine A LightTV On The Radio - ProvinceThe Smiths - Pretty Girls Make GravesNew Order - TemptationLINKSC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website S02 E02: Building On We won't say that this is the best episode of A. S. ever. That would be presumptuous. But it's probably fair to say it's the best of this season. And if we keep building on our experience, Season 3 will win some sort of Podcastie Award. No pressure, though...PLAYLISTLilly Allen - Everything's Just WonderfulRilo Kiley - My Slumbering HeartCSS - Off The HookLittle Girls - Youth TunesTegan and Sara - On DirectingNightmares on Wax - Flip Ya LidLINKSAlice is Dead; Here Comes the BoogeymanCentury ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Awkward Silences S02 E01: The Big Leagues One might say we've 'graduated' to the next level of podcasting. The second season, if you will.PLAYLISTFrench Kicks - Said So WhatSarah Harmer - LodestarTaken by Trees - Lost and FoundTegan and Sara - The CureTegan and Sara - SomedayStars - HeartColdplay - See You SoonLINKSMichael Ignatieff's Opinion PieceLost Overview Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 47: Baby, It's Cold Outside Since this episode is pretty self-explanatory, how about an anecdote? As a child, I always thought that the line "See the blazing Yule before us," from Deck the Halls, made reference to a tradition dating back to the pagan roots of this holiday; namely, the ritualistic burning of Yul Brynner, star of such films as The King and I, on a large pyre fuelled by yew-wood and holly. And since I never knew the lyrics to "Baby, It's Cold Outside," past the title phrase, I assumed the rest of the ver ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 46: New Old-Fashioned Way Somewhere between the sacred and traditional Christmas carols and the chintzy slop we covered in Episode 45, there's the Christmas Song: It's pleasant, it's catchy, it's relatively recent yet seems destined to feature for many Christmases to come. So in our last "regular" episode of 2009, we're rocking out to our favourite Christmas songs. In a new old-fashioned way. Whatever that means.PLAYLISTBrenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas TreeBobby Helms & The Anita Kerr Singers - Jingle B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 45: Roasting Chestnuts Many subscribe to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. Sorry, folks, this is not the time for etiquette: Christmas is at stake! So this week, we take a look at the most horrendous Yuletide musical offerings over the years. Why would you subject yourself to this gauntlet of chintz? Well, we here at Awkward Silences are experts at making catty remarks. Also, it's considered "with it" to like things ironically. So here we go...PLAYLISTShir ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 44: It's Late We're getting ever so close to the end: the end of the month, end of the year, end of the decade. But hopefully not at the end of your patience. Here it is, Episode 44, plump with sonorous delights. Plus, you know all those things you were thinking about lately? Yeah, we've thought about them too. Except we have microphones. And opinions. And delusions of greatness.Playlist:Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent AdolescentBlind Melon - SoupFleetwood Mac - DreamsJenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - You ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 43: What's Up With That? Doesn't everyone love a parade? No? Ooo wee... What's up with that?It's a veritable parade of hot topics this week, as we unleash a new rapid-fire segment. Plus, more Office talk than you could probably ever want. Oh, and, did you know we play music now? Enjoy!(Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 1918)PLAYLISTCar Stereo Wars - Radio EditWinter Gloves - About a GirlTegan and Sara - Living RoomBorn Ruffians - HummingbirdThe Strokes - Trying Your LuckYeah Yeah Yeahs - PinThe Pixies - Wave of Mutilatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 42: Better with Age Remembrance Day, the fall of the Berlin Wall, a recent Royal visit and forty years of Sesame Street: yes, we can find a link between the four. Gloomy November has a knack for casting our focus on old things, anniversaries and institutions. So enjoy this week's episode, as we dust off the old memory album (and play a variety of unconnected, modern music, just because we can).PLAYLISTNew Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish TechnoBroken Social Scene - Looks Just Like the SunRadiohead - Bangers &am ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 41: Same Old Story ...same old song and dance, my friend.That was an Aerosmith reference. Clever, eh?This week, we discuss November, mass shootings, the conservation of our industrial heritage, and, of course, The Office. Oh, and, as usual, we talk about ourselves. Enjoy!PLAYLISTSantogold - L.E.S. artistesMetric - HandshakesTimber Timbre - Like a MountainGrizzly Bear - Deep Blue SeaThe Conservation Authority - Her Stirring WavesThe Clash - Rudie Can't FailBlondie - RaptureEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 40: Far & Away No, you haven't stumbled onto a blog dedicated to Ron Howard's 1992 film (starring the former Hollywood power couple of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise). It's just, Far & Away is this week's musical theme. And, as it happens, Episode 40 is far and away our most awkward of late, so, umm, aren't you keen on it, now?PLAYLISTRainer Maria - Life of LeisureTegan and Sara - Hop A PlaneElton John - Rocket ManChantal Kreviazuk - Until We DieCarole King - So Far AwaySimon and Garfunkel - Homeward Bo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 38: Stuck on You Yes, we've had to delay for a few days to get our ducks in a row (in accordance with Bylaw 11.34(20), "Provisions for Fowl Alignment"), but what a show this week! Earworms: songs that are so catchy, you'll need a restraining order to distance yourself from this episode. Co-stanza...PLAYLISTKylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My HeadDion & The Belmonts - Runaround SueThe Tokens - The Lion Sleeps TonightThe Archies - Sugar, SugarThe Muppets - Mah Nà Mah NàElton John - Bennie and the Je ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 38 With people getting hit by trains and bunnies being burned for fuel, is it any wonder that we spend a good portion of this comfort-food episode to discuss our favourite streets? Also, as usual, a look at the latest episode of The Office, with some passing thoughts on Inglorious Basterds.MUSIC CREDITSBadly Drawn Boy - Camping Next to WaterZeus - How Does it FeelThe Guess Who - Hand Me Down WorldSea Wolf - The Violet HourTraveling Wilburys - Handle with CarePaul Simon - Me and Julio Down By T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE 37 This week, well, why not just listen?MUSIC CREDITSDeath Cab For Cutie - Information Travels FasterShe & Him - I Was Made For YouSt. Vincent - MarrowLand of Talk - A Series of Small FlamesPick A Piper - RoomsMonty Python - Drunken Philosophers' SongFor a worthwhile blog jam-packed with art and music, check out: Nocturnal Weeks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cover Episode (36) It's the episode you've all been waiting for - COVERS!(Stephen Harper performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the NAC Gala: Video)With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (Beatles Cover)Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas (Covered by The Rolling Stones)Hard To Handle by Otis Redding (Covered by The Black Crowes)Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers (Covered by Roy Orbison and Nazareth)Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac (Covered by Santana)Proud Mary by Tina and Ike Turner (CCR Cover)Nothing Compares ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cover Episode (36) It's the episode you've all been waiting for - COVERS!(Stephen Harper performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the NAC Gala: Video)With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (Beatles Cover)Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas (Covered by The Rolling Stones)Hard To Handle by Otis Redding (Covered by The Black Crowes)Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers (Covered by Roy Orbison and Nazareth)Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac (Covered by Santana)Proud Mary by Tina and Ike Turner (CCR Cover)Nothing Compares ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EPISODE ONE Here's our first episode. Please let us know what you think. Enjoy!For those that can't get it directly from here, try:Episode 1 - January 9th, 2009 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website