Aug 31, 2016
We missed National Dog Day, but every week is a good week to celebrate our furry friends. Right? Come with us on this. We listened to two songs about pets, "Christmas Is Going to the Dogs" by Eels and "It's Hard to Be a Cat On Christmas" by Cats Across America, and it, you know, could have gone worse. It didn't go great.
Aug 24, 2016
With one week left until September, it's back to school season! Hear us stroll down memory lane with Christmas songs by bands that bring us back to our own school days, "Christmas at the Zoo" by The Flaming Lips and "It's Christmas Time" by Yo La Tengo.
Aug 17, 2016
Friend of the show Andy has served us with another request - this time for what could be the worst of all versions of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah": a Nativity/Good Friday centric cover by The Osmonds, recorded in the Year of our Lord 2015. To cleanse our palates, we then listened to Rufus Wainwright's "Spotlight on...
Aug 10, 2016
This week on HARK we return to a musical genre we haven't heard in a while - hip-hop - and do we even have to tell you at this point that the results were mixed? RJ adores the lollygagging "Landy In my Eggnog" by Bad Lucc enough for the both of us, while our opinions are more united on the brief but baffling "Hanukkah...
Aug 3, 2016
This week we take a request from a dear friend who wanted us to suffer through two poorly-told musical tales of Christmas disillusionment: "Where Are You Christmas?" by Faith Hill and "Silver Bells" by Kathie Lee Gifford featuring Regis Philbin. Join us on this journey through talk show banter and music video hairstyles...