looking at the big sky

the show where we all sit and look at the big sky together.

host: madeline flaherty

the final episode of trinity!! this week we listen to a collection of summery songs, ranging from the cute to the hot to the epic. thank you for listening to looking at the big sky! it's been so much fun.
songs:
Saliva, Viktor Vaughn
4EVER, Clairo
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone, Aretha Franklin
Cherry Jerry Citrus, Hey Cowboy!
Now I'm In It, HAIM
Amor Prohibido, Selena
You're So Good to Me (Mono), The Beach Boys
She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals
You Are My Heart, Rex Williams
Ticket To Ride, The Beatles
Check the Rhime, A Tribe Called Quest
Luna, Bombay Bicycle Club
Venice Bitch, Lana Del Rey

this episode is to demonstrate solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and to stand against hate. please enjoy this uninterrupted hour of queer music! (aired 7-8pm 30th May 2023)
songs:
The walker, Christine and the Queens
Jason, Perfume Genius
Talkin' Bout A Revolution, Tracy Chapman
Make Me Feel, Janelle Monáe
I Want To Break Free, Queen
Heart to Break, Kim Petras
3SEX, Indochine; Christine and the Queens
Get Well Soon, Frances Grove
Televangelism, Ethel Cain
Triple Dog Dare, Lucy Dacus
Soldier, Trixie Mattel
Love And Affection, Joan Armatrading
Red Wine Supernova, Chappell Roan
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), Whitney Houston
The Story, Brandi Carlile
Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

warning: Derrida comes up in this episode. prepare yourself. other than that this week we dive into my current obsessions, indulging my brain, ears and heart with a collection of songs i love at the moment:
Spiral, Pinegrove
The Swimming Song, Loudon Wainwright III
99 Luftballons, Nena
Pretty Little Flowers, Mark Kozelek; Kath Bloom
Any Time of Day, The Lemon Twigs
These Arms of Mine, Otis Redding
Do I Ever Cross Your Mind, Chet Atkins and Dolly Parton
Waltz (Better Than Fine), Fiona Apple
Storms, Fleetwood Mac
Strangers, Ethel Cain
Oxford Comma, Vampire Weekend
Phase (Amperland, NY), Pinegrove

inspired by the wisdom of my muse (lolly), this week we're embracing the joy and life music can bring us, and feeling the glow that radiates from these songs:
Maria, Blondie
Northern Sky, Nick Drake
Different Drum, Stone Poneys; Linda Ronstadt
Aku Raukura - Disco Mix, Patea Maori Club
French Navy, Camera Obscura
U Should, CHIKA
Alina, Alex G
Sure, Hatchie
Bright Star, Anaïs Mitchell
Gypsy, Fleetwood Mac

this week we're thinking about rage; it's destructiveness but also its power. cathart with me through this selection of songs:
STFU!, Rina Sawayama
Guts, Leith Ross
Oblivion, Grimes
Eat Your Young, Hozier
British Bombs, Declan McKenna
Somebody That I Used to Know, Elliott Smith
Not About Love, Fiona Apple
Piece of My Heart, Big Brother & The Holding Company; Janis Joplin
Like A Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan
Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile

(content warnings: brief non-graphic references to sexual assault, sexual violence, and depression)

looking at the big sky is back with a new episode on friends!! i decided this week to dedicate some songs to my friends whom i love very much. the act of sharing art is one of love and we don't appreciate that enough💘
songs:
Shoegaze, Alabama Shakes (for lolly)
Dhoom Taana, Shreya Ghoshal; Abhjijeet (for khushi and ade)
Crawdad Song, Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley (for jonas)
Don't Know Why, Norah Jones (for emily)
Judas, Lady Gaga (for jenny)
Dress, Taylor Swift (for tara)
Lonely Sea (Mono), The Beach Boys (for dan)
Stockholm Syndrome, One Direction (for freya)
Forget About Him, Kath Bloom (for tyler)
Booster Seat, Spacey Jane (for emma)
Mikrokosmos, BTS (for sophie)

for this episode special guest Emma Robinson joins us to impart her wisdom about movie soundtracks and why romcoms are the best genre (she's right)
songs:
When Will My Life Begin, Mandy Moore
Send Me on My Way, Rusted Root
Shooting the Moon, OK Go
Modern Love, David Bowie
String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, B. 179, Antonín Dvorák, Pavel Haas Quartet
Nemo Egg (Main Title), Thomas Newman
Hypnotize, The Notorious B. I. G.
Everybody's Free (To Feel Good), Quindon Tarver
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours), Stevie Wonder
One Summer Day, Joe Hisaishi

special guest Emily Jones features on this week's episode about home! we talk about home as people, places, things, feelings ... in these songs:
Banana Pancakes, Jack Johnson
Rosendo en Sabaxans, Berrogüetto
Changes, Butterfly Boucher; David Bowie
Baby Love, The Supremes
arms, Christina Perri
Ketchum, ID, boygenius
Now Is Exactly The Time, Noah and the Whale
Our Town, Iris DeMent
Come Away With Me, Norah Jones
Centre of Gravity, Yo La Tengo

this episode we get into solitude, good and bad - where do we draw the line between loneliness and enjoying your own company? how do we navigate pursuing healthy relationships with others and ourselves? (p.s. there was a technical difficulty in the middle of Bob Dylan, so for now this episode is cut off at that point - I will try and fix it at a later date)
songs:
Help!, The Beatles
Square, Mitski
Sour Breath, Julien Baker
Berlin, Fenne Lily
Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
Shelter from the Storm, Bob Dylan
enemy, Charli XCX
The Solitude, Bedouine

a belated valentine's day episode!! love expert Lola Francis joins us in the studio for an epic collection of love songs and the intense feelings they get into.
songs:
Hounds of Love, Kate Bush
Love and Affection, Joan Armatrading
The Book of Love, The Magnetic Fields
Beeswing, Richard Thompson
anything, Adrianne Lenker
Lover, You Should've Come Over, Jeff Buckley
That Feel, Tom Waits
You in the Sky, The Waterboys

today we've got another seasonal episode - this time spring! it's a time for new beginnings, renewal, and loving the world as it comes to us. i hope you enjoy this week's episode my spring chickens 😚
songs:
I Courted A Sailor, Kate Rusby; Jim Causley
花ひらくまで, Ayano Kaneko
Pilgrimage, Ichiko Aoba
Diamond Day, Vashti Bunyan
My Finest Hour, The Sundays
The Thief Bunny Society, Per Störby Jutbring
Someone New, Hozier
Without You, Perfume Genius
Dancing Through the Telephone, The Axidents
Walking on Broken Glass, Annie Lennox

this week i was ill, and so to combat my weakness i utilised the power of fate - and spotify's shuffle button. please enjoy this mishmash of excellent songs:
Sometimes, James
Château Lobby no.4 (In C for Two Virgins), Father John Misty
(You) On My Arm, Leith Ross
It Wasn't Me, Bedouine
White Ferrari, Frank Ocean
drive it all over me, my bloody valentine
Prélude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45, Frédéric Chopin; Alexei Lubimov
Watermelon, Tom Rosenthal
Everybody Wants to Love You, Japanese Breakfast
Try a Little Tenderness, Otis Redding

episode 8 is here and this week we're talking about musicals! special guest and musical theatre nerd extraordinaire Jenny Black joins us for a journey through the world of musical theatre, from the harrowing to the hilarious (p.s. you're treated to the usual helping of BTS noises as I continue my power battle with audacity)
songs:
Maria, Leonard Bernstein; Various Artists
Take Me or Leave Me, Idina Menzel; Tracie Thoms
Serious, Laura Bell Bundy; Richard H. Blake
When You're Good to Mama, Queen Latifa; Taye Diggs
Wait for It, Leslie Odom Jr.; Hamilton Original Broadway Cast
Noel's Lament, Kholby Wardell; Scott Redmond
Lost in the Wilderness, Danny Kosarin; Darius deHaas
What Would I Do?, Christian Borle; Andrew Rannells
Epic III, Reeve Carney; Hadestown Original Broadway Cast
The Bitch of Living, John Gallagher Jr.; Spring Awakening Original Broadway Cast

it's lucky number 7!! this week we're talking about change - how it makes us feel, how we deal with it, how to accept it. everything changes! all the time! and there's nothing we can do! :) :D
songs:
Change, Alex G
What Used To Be Mine, Faye Webster
Everything is Everything, Ms. Lauryn Hill
Not the Same, Ezra Williams
A New England, Kirsty MacColl
Perpetuum Mobile, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Change, Big Thief
Scott Street, Phoebe Bridgers
Neverending Math Equation, Sun Kil Moon

looking at the big sky is back baby! this is our first episode with a special guest, tv connoisseur and expert Tyler Daly, where we navigate our relationships with tv and the music featured therein. (you’ve also been treated to an exclusive, raw, behind the scenes countdown to the start of the show)
songs:
There She Goes, The La's
Mulder and Scully, Catatonia
I Got Nerve, Hannah Montana
Dick Turpin Song, Horrible Histories
101 Rap, Donald Glover and Danny Pudi
You're My Best Friend, Queen
Call Your Girlfriend, Robyn
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac

our first seasonal episode - this week is all about winter. are we surviving it, are we enjoying it, are we reckoning with it? we're exploring all these wintery feelings in this week's picks.
songs:
If We Make It Through December, Phoebe Bridgers
White Winter Hymnal, Fleet Foxes
In Dulce Jubilo, Mike Oldfield
I Believe in Father Christmas, Greg Lake
Wintering, The 1975

episode 4 is here!! this week's theme is longing - for connection, love, meaning, to be in a movie, you name it. (skip to 47 seconds in - i cannot work audacity for the life of me 😭)

songs:
Just One Day, BTS
People, Barbra Streisand
I Want You To Love Me, Fiona Apple
I Will, Mitski
Movies, Weyes Blood

it looks like episode 3 has been lost to time and the ravages of audacity 😔 i will try my best to recover it however i think it will be a fruitless endeavour. goodbye episode 3, you will be forever missed.

episode 3’s theme was euphoria. the tracklist was:

Fantasy, Mariah Carey

Smoking Gun, Magnolia Shorty

Mauja Hi Mauja (Remix), Pritam; Mika Singh; Bunty Rajput

Clarity, Zedd; Foxes

This Is The Day, The The

episode 2 of looking at the big sky is here! this week's theme is youth: we start at the beginning and end at the end through these 5 songs. (once again i forgot to start recording at the beginning of episode so apologies)
tracklist:
Going Going Gone, Lucy Dacus
Carrying You, Azumi Inoue
seven, Taylor Swift
I Don't Wanna Grow Up, Tom Waits
Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Broken Social Scene

 the first episode of looking at the big sky!! this week's theme is wonder: how is it possible that we exist? what is gravity? how crazy is it that we live in the universe?! (disclaimer: I only started recording this episode in the middle of the first song. sorry about that!! also my voice is quite muffled so turn it up when you get to my parts)
songs:
Gravity Rides Everything, Modest Mouse
Reflecting Light, Sam Phillips
Chicago, Sufjan Stevens
(unplayed) Spud Infinity, Big Thief
I Know The End, Phoebe Bridgers