James Crowley's Infinite Playlist

James Crowley's Infinite Playlist

Comic and writer James Crowley sits down with comedians, musicians, writers, and other creative people to craft playlists catered to a different theme each week.

Episodes

September 21, 2022 21 mins

This week, James talks about new songs by the Mountain Goats, Britney Spears, Ozzy Osbourne, Rina Sawayama, Death Cab For Cutie and more! Plus he gives rundowns of seeing My Chemical Romance (4x) and Riot Fest.

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Playlist:

the Mountain Goats - Hostages

The Chats - The Price of Smokes

Cass McCombs - Unproud Warrior

4s4ki - ring ring, you kill me

Elton John & Britney Spears - Hold Me Closer

Tiny Blue Ghost - Frag...

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(Comedian) This week James talks about new music from Beyonce, Chat Pile, Kal Marks, Fugitive, and more, plus Rage Against the Machine.

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Playlist Bite:

Rage Against The Machine - Down Rodeo

Beyoncé - ENERGY

Chat Pile - Why

Pool Kids - Swallow

Elder Brother - Welcome To The Black Parade

HOLYFANGS - This Might Take A While

Kal Marks - Everybody Hertz

Fugitive - Hell's Half Acre

Ocean Glass - Two Bastards In Boston

S...

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(Comedian) This week, James talks about new releases from Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Flo Millie, The Wonder Years, Slipknot, and more.

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Playlist bite:

Lizzo – Everybody’s Gay

Magnolia Park – Don’t Be Racist

Titus Andronicus – (I’m) Screwed

Slipknot – The Chapeltown Rag

A Day To Remember – Miracle

Billie Elish – TV

John Moreland – Lion’s Den

Flo Milli – Pay Day (feat. Rico Nasty)

Future Teens – BYOB

The Wonder Years – L...

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July 20, 2022 14 mins

In this episode, James talks about some of his favorite recent releases, including Petrol Girls, Death Cab for Cutie, and Flo Milli. He also wants to know what you think about podcasts without song clips.

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Playlist bite: 

Petrol Girls—Baby, I Had An Abortion

CLIFFDIVER—Who Let the Hawgz Out?

Greet Death—Punishment Existence

Gospel—MVDM

Monaleo & Flo Milli—We Not Humping (Remix)

Death Cab For Cutie—H...

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(Comedian) This week, James talks about some of the recent tunes he's been loving, including new Kendrick Lamar, Florence + The Machine, and much more.

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Playlist bite:

My Chemical Romance – The Foundations of Decay

With The Punches – Almost Everything

Pkew Pkew Pkew – Young Pro

Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties – Thunder Road

The Smile – You Will Never Work In Television Again

Florence + The Machine – Girls Ag...

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(Comedian) This week, James tries a new solo style for a brief minisode. Lots of talk about new songs from The Wonder Years, The Linda Lindas, and much more.

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Abortion Funds You Can Donate To Here

Playlist bite:

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – January 10th, 2014

The Wonder Years – Oldest Daughter

Mel Bryant & The Marcy Makers – Relatively Good

Pusha T – Rock N Roll (feat. Ka...

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April 20, 2022 28 mins

(Comedian) This week, James discusses some of his favorite recent releases, including Pkew Pkew Pkew, Oso Oso, talker, Babehoven, and much more.

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With The Punches – Stoneham Blues

Remi Wolf – Sexy Villain

Babehoven – Twenty Dried Chilies

Pkew Pkew Pkew – Maybe Someday

Peregrine – exorcism USA

Tiny Blue Ghost – We Intertwined

Proper. – McConnell

Oso Oso – Computer Exploder

Talker – Sad Chick

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March 30, 2022 84 mins

(Comedy & Podcast producer) Following the second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning! This week, Al Kane joins the podcast to talk about some of our favorite Disney songs. From the classics to the deep cuts, Al and James Crowley get into all sorts of aspects of Disney.

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Al’s playlist:

Hunchback of Notre Dame – The Bells of Notre Dame

Dumbo – Pink Elephants on Parade

The Little Mermaid – Poor Unfortu...

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March 9, 2022 25 mins

(comic) Just James this week chatting about some of the songs he's been listening to! Some new, some new to him, and some just straight nostalgia.

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EARTHGANG — POWER (feat. Cee-lo Green and Nick Cannon)

The Armed — Forever Scum

Red City Radio — This Day's Seen Better Bars

Pictoria Vark — I Can't Bike

Bartees Strange — Heavy Heart

Sueco — Sober/Hungover (feat. Arizona Zervas)

Spanish Love Songs — Dolores (Etc. Vers...

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(Podcaster) James and Sammy of the Red String Podcast finish up their discussion about what they think it would sound like as a dying robot recounts its memories. It gets a little dark and moody.

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Sammy's Playlist:

The Strokes – At The Door

Radiohead – Treefingers

Bon Iver – 715 CrEEks

Daft Punk – Within-robots

Thom Yorke – Dawn Chorus

James' Playlist:

Nine Inch Nails – Hurt

LCD Soundsystem – black screen

Bon...

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(Podcaster) Kicking off 2022 with a bang! James Crowley starts the year with a conversation with Sammy Wiener of the Red String Podcast, where they create playlists about a dying robot as it slowly recounts its memories. Equal parts moving and hilarious, it’s a great way to kick off the new year.

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Sammy’s Playlist:

Sweet Trip – To All The Dancers Of the World

My bloody valentine – Touched

MGMT – As You Move Throug...

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October 13, 2021 87 mins

(Comedian) Welcome to my nightmare! It's Halloween season, and with All Hallow's Eve just around the corner, Rory Patrick returned to talk about some of our favorite spooky season songs. Everything from classics like "I Put A Spell On You" to modern takes on classic horror films like Ice Nine Kills, James and Rory get scary.

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Rory’s Playlist:

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell On You

Warren Zevon – Werewolves o...

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(Comedian) Life's been super busy, but James is getting back into going to shows and is trying to keep up with some of the great new music coming out lately.

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Pastor T. L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Like A Ship

midwxst – Star

Shortly – Dancer

Bartees Strange – Weights

Joyce Manor – Call Out

Save Face – Bury Me (Tonight)

illuminati hotties – Mmmoooaaaaaayaya

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Midnigh...

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Today we have the rest of the conversation between James and Hypothetical: A What If? Podcastto discuss songs about growth and change. It’s a deeply personal conversation with a lot of discussions about getting older and relationships.

James’ Playlist:

The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die—Getting Soda

Kevin Devine—Protest Singer

LCD Soundsystem—Someone Great

Camp Cope—Lost (Season One)

Taylor Swift—All ...

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June 2, 2021 30 mins

After feeling kinda starved for new music, James has been diving more into stuff that he loves and exploring a bunch of new stuff (as well as some familiar favorites). There’s so much new stuff to be excited about.

Zeal & Ardor – Run

Mdou Moctar – Layla

KennyHoopla – ESTELLA// (feat. Travis Barker)

Mannequin Pussy – Pigs is Pigs

Foxing – Where the Lightning Strikes Twice

Fiddlehead – Down University

The National – Conversation ...

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Emmi (my girlfriend) and I kept discussing classical music. There's some more recognizable pieces in here, especially works by John Williams (Music from Star Wars and Jurassic Park), as well as chats about what it was like when we first matched on Hinge and some of Emmi's memories from playing classical fiddle music in college.

Emmi's Playlist:

Antonio Vivaldi-Double Cello Concerto RV531: Allegro

Sir Edward Elgar-Cello Concerto in ...

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This week, I brought probably the most important guest I've ever had on: my girlfriend Emmi Albarano to absolutely school me on classical music. It's both a fun and light conversation about our relationship, working in the arts, performing classical music, and indie films, written by Josh Radnor.

Emmi’s Playlist:

Igor Stravinsky-Petrouchka: VII. Dance of the Wet

Camille Saint-Saëns-The Swan from Carnival of the Animals

Oja Gjeilo-S...

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We're in for a doozy with this one. This week begins the first of a few episodes with comedian Aaron Levine, where we discuss outlaw country music. Aaron and I really connected and spoke for a very long time about both the genre and life in general. These are all goodies.

(Also, apologies for some rough audio).

Aaron's Playlist:

Johnny Cash—Cocaine Blues (Live)

Marty Robbins—They’re Hanging Me Tonight

Waylon Jennings—Lonesome, On’r...

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January 12, 2021 63 mins

We’re living in a time before riots and COVID in this week’s episode! My lifelong friend John Donnelly returns to talk about nostalgia on today’s episode, ranging from songs that were popular when we were young to songs our moms and dads taught us.

John’s Playlist:

Elton John-Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Barry White-Never Never Gonna Give You Up

U2-City of Blinding Lights

Matt Nathanson-Laid

The Specials-Pressure Drop

Ja...

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October 21, 2020 22 mins

It's a solo episode this week where I announce that we're joining the Lughole Network, and I talk about some new stuff I've been listening to, including petitions to get Stevie Nicks to cover "You're So Vain." opinions on acoustic albums, and rediscovering blink-182.


Carly Simon-You're So Vain

100gecs-money machine (A.G. Cook remix)

Fireworks-Demitasse

Laura Jane Grace-The Swimming Pool Song

The Menzingers-I Can't Stop Drinkin...

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