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Earworm: Ma Shifang's Musical Time Machine
Popular music, youth culture, and echoes of an age
Completed · 52 episodes
Buy for ¥98.00
Audio in Chinese
Ma Shifang: I Look Forward to Meeting You over the Airwaves 01. These Songs Kicked Open a Door in My Mind 02. The Greatest Side-A Opening Track on a Debut Album 03. Press Play and You're Flying! The Greatest Debut Album Opener, Continued 04. I Am My Own Bandmate—and There Really Is Only One of Me 05. The Coolest Instrument You Would Never Guess—Straight from the Farm 06. A Lonely Singer from the Land of Solitude—I Am My Own Bandmate, Continued 07. No Instruments Needed to Make You Cry—Women Singing A Cappella 08. Give Me Three Minutes and I'll Send You into Space 09. Goodbye, Charlie, Goodbye 10. Without This Guitar Intro, There Would Be No Rock and Roll 11. The World's Earliest Electronic Instrument Sounds like a Wizard Casting Spells 12. Three Songs Show Why Drums and Bass Matter 13. Rhythmically Brilliant Classics—One without Any Drums 14. Can a Rock Song Really Work without Drums? 15. What Does a Six-Million-Dollar Guitar Sound Like? 16. Never Play These Songs at a Wedding—Unless You Want to Curse the Couple 17. Songs Never to Play at a Wedding | Listener Selections 18. More than Precocious: Brilliant Young Women 19. More than Precocious: Brilliant Young Women, Continued 20. More than Precocious: Stevie Wonder, the Prodigy of Black Music 21. The Shortest Pop Single Ever—and Other Remarkably Short Songs 22. Short Songs, Long Stories: From the Beatles to Pikotaro 23. Short, Sad, Desolate Songs 24. She Only Wanted to Be a Drummer, but Died Young after Singing into Millions of Hearts 25. Men's Songs, Sung by Women 26. Christmas Song Special 27. Inventing a Sound That Broke Open an Era 28. Cash Registers, Aerosol Cans, and a Stalk of Celery in Rock History 29. Goodbye, Ronnie, Goodbye 30. Men's Songs, Sung by Women, Continued 31. Distorted-Guitar Heaven! No Ballad Seekers Allowed 32. The Most Irresistible Whistling in Pop History? 33. Irresistible Whistling Songs: Listener Requests 34. A Legendary Weapon That Changed Music History: The Yamaha DX7 35. That Ecstatic Piano 36. Perhaps the Three Most Important Electrified Singles Ever—the World Was Never the Same 37. A Strange, Indescribably Wonderful Instrument That Sets Your Blood Racing 38. That Gleaming Saxophone 39. New Languages Invented by Singers: You Don't Understand, Yet Somehow You Do 40. There Is Still Time to Write One Song before Leaving the World 41. A Guitar Hero's Perfect Outro 42. Harmonies Beautiful Enough to Break Your Heart 43. Exquisite Harmonies, Continued 44. You Must Wear Headphones for This One—Prepare for an Eargasm 45. One Song for Falling in Love, One for Breaking Up 46. The Legendary Instrument That Changed Rock History: The Hammond Organ 47. Strange Sounds in Epic Classics 48. No Accompaniment Needed to Strike Your Soul | A Cappella, Continued 49. My Most Treasured Live Recordings 50. Finale: If Tomorrow Were the End of the World