Screw It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or Whatever

A music podcast with each episode featuring songs selected on a loose theme. Sometimes solo hosted, sometimes featuring guests. Conversational and wide-ranging, this should feel like chatting with your friends about music you're really into.

Screw It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or Whatever is a music podcast hosted by Katie Plattner, with 54 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Katie Plattner hosts Screw It, I'm Just Gonna Talk About Music Or Whatever, a music show with 54 episodes published.

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  Episode #24

  Unintentionally Funny Lyrics - with Kate Riley

  Aug 8, 20251h 17mS2

  <p>I'm joined for this episode by my close friend Kate Riley! We each contributed songs whose lyrics strike us as very funny and don't seem to be a joke on purpose (i.e. unintentionally funny). Send us your picks for songs on this theme! Buy Kate's amazing debut novel "Ruth", out 8/19/25!</p> <p> </p> <p>Songs discussed in this episode:</p> <p>The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (1966)</p> <p>Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly (1966)</p> <p>Drake - Best I Ever Had (2009)</p> <p>Flo Rida - My House (2015)</p> <p>Prince - Nothing Compares 2 U (1985? 1991?)</p...

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  Episode #23

  Same Title, Different Songs - Part 2

  Jun 22, 202556 minS2

  <p>Back again with more songs that have the same titles but otherwise have nothing in common!</p> <p> </p> <p>Songs discussed in this episode:</p> <p>Dion & The Belmonts - A Teenager In Love (1959)</p> <p>The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - A Teenager In Love (2009)</p> <p>Arthur Alexander - Soldier of Love (1960)</p> <p>Sade - Soldier of Love (2010)</p> <p>Wye Oak - Holy Holy (2011)</p> <p>Geordie Greep - Holy, Holy (2024)</p> <p>Moondog - Do Your Thing (1978)</p> <p>Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing (2001)</p> <p>Don Cherry, Ray Conniff...

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  Episode #22

  Prepositions

  Jun 13, 202555 minS2

  <p>This is a pretty flimsy theme BUT all the songs are good so let's all just cool it. The theme is prepositions. Songs that have prepositions in the title. That's it. Anyway, they're good songs.</p> <p> </p> <p>Songs discussed in this episode:</p> <p>Viagra Boys - Down In The Basement (2018)</p> <p>Klaus Johann Grobe - Between The Buttons (2014)</p> <p>Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Inside Straight (1973)</p> <p>Brewer & Shipley - One Toke Over The Line (1970)</p> <p>Rubblebucket - Came Out Of A Lady (2010)</p> <p>The Toms - Standing In The Shadows (1979)</p> <p...

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  Episode #21

  Memento Mori / Spring

  Mar 7, 202553 minS2

  <p>We're all gonna die someday! Also it's almost spring, and that's nice.</p> <p> </p> <p>Songs discussed in this episode:</p> <p>Arthur Lee - Everybody's Gotta Live (1972)</p> <p>Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July (2015)</p> <p>William Onyeabor - Try And Try (1979)</p> <p>Yard Act - 100% Endurance (2022)</p> <p>Tol-Puddle Martyrs - Time Will Come (1967)</p> <p>Viagra Boys - Worms (2018)</p> <p>Paul Williams - The Hell Of It (1974)</p> <p>Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998)</p> <p>La Luz - Sure As Spring (2013)</p> <p>Slow Children - S...

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  Episode #20

  Handclaps - with Eric D. Johnson

  Feb 21, 20251h 37mS2

  <p>This is the 50th episode of this podcast! I'm joined by friend Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats, Bonny Light Horseman) to talk about handclaps. We talk about handclaps in the songwriting and recording process, play some of our favorite songs featuring handclaps, and also have a bunch of digressions about other stuff.</p> <p> </p> <p>Songs played in this episode (maybe not exactly in this order):</p> <p>The Shins - Kissing the Lipless (2003)</p> <p>Led Zeppelin - Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (1970)</p> <p>Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody (2003)</p> <p>The Routers - Let's Go - P...

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