A group of Irish music fans get together to chat about music and which songs they think fit a particular theme.
You can listen along on Spotify in the playlist Immature Themes (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71YHVPAnjlelUXPfejOWmi?si=f4f39c4be9a54188).
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Hello dear listeners! This month Tara goes rogue and has a little solo ramble about songs that are about being seventeen and why there's so many of them. Back soon as a group!
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
Sam Fender
Sharon Van Etten
ABBA
Broken Social Scene
Stevie Nicks
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8 Jan 2023
Driving songs
Hello dear listeners! This month we're chatting about driving songs. What's your favourite tune to blast while you're driving around? Back pocket theme is a song you'd listen to while doing a polar dip, or any jump into cold water. What's a good motivator or something to slowly ease you in.
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
Sigur Ros
The Doors
PJ Harvey
Bruce Springsteen
Lisa O'Neill
QOTSA
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20 Dec 2022
Songs for your own biopic
Hello dear listeners! This month we're chatting about songs that you would pick as a soundtrack to your own biopic. Your life is a movie, what song is playing over it? The back pocket theme is the oldest songs you like to listen to.
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
Rory Gallagher
Kings of Leon
Glenn Miller
Kris Kristofferson
Smog
Etta James
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2 Dec 2022
Goodbye Songs
Hello dear listeners! This month we're chatting about goodbye songs as our buddy Grier goes off on a six month travel trip. The back pocket theme is songs your parents introduced you to - both good and bad.
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
Led Zeppelin
Roy Orbison
Frankie Cosmos
Wye Oak
Johnny Cash
Radiohead
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1 Nov 2022
Songs to get you out of a music rut
Hello dear listeners! This month we're chatting about songs that can get you out of a music rut, or just out of a rut in general. Songs that inspire you to dig in and appreciate music again. The back pocket theme is wedding first dance songs that somehow includes chats about the British Office soundtrack.
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
No Age
Wet Leg
Cat Stevens
The Pillow Queens
Fear
Turnstile
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Bruce Springsteen (Conz as always)
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1 Oct 2022
Scary Songs
Hello dear listeners! We're picking scary songs this month. What songs give you the willies? Does music evoke fear without an added visual? Why does horror-billy exist? We'll be chatting about all of this and also naming songs about being thankful.
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
The Mummies
Lou Reed
Nick Cave
Tom Waits
Kate Bush
Sunn O)))
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24 Jul 2021
Best Opening Songs on an Album
Hello! After a little delay, we're back. This month we're talking about best opening tracks on an album. What opener made you stop what you were doing and think, what is this?! Our back pocket theme was best hidden tracks. Remember those? What CDs would startle you awake with hidden songs? Why were they a thing?
As always, you can reach us at immaturethemes@gmail.com and you can find the playlist of songs on Spotify.
Featuring:
IDLES
The Cure
Black Sabbath
Talking Heads
Whipping Boy
Lamb Chop
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13 Apr 2021
Best Songs to Wake Up From a Coma To
Hello!
This month we're talking comas. How'd you get in one? And what song would you like playing when you wake up? Turns out there are some notably bad songs that people have awoken from comas to. One rhymes with Tom Tovi.
Back pocket theme is Best Spring songs. What songs make you open your windows and want to grab a bag of cans for the park?
Wilco
Meatloaf
Velvet Underground (Conz, obvs)
Nils Frahm
Republic of Loose
Elbow
The Jam
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Tara, obvs)
Dolly Parton
And many more
Playlist can be found on Spotify under Immature Themes: The Playlist. Contact us at immaturethemes@gmail.com.
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15 Mar 2021
Best Songs with Stories
Hello! This month we're talking about best songs with stories, from ballads to cloudbusting. Yes. Busting of clouds. Back pocket theme is best Irish party songs that aren't Maniac 2000. Happy Paddy's Day!
Kate Bush
Radiator Hospital
Arctic Monkeys
Johnny Cash
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Thin Lizzy
Nick Cave
The Drones
Playlist can be found on Spotify.
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13 Feb 2021
Best Love Songs
Hello! This month we're talking about love songs. Which ones set our hearts a flutter and which ones made us almost cry when we saw them performed live. Back pocket theme is favourite side projects. If you have any theme requests, email immaturethemes@gmail.com.
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17 Jan 2021
Best Live Songs
Hello!
This month we chat about the best live songs. Grier forgets and then remembers how he hung out with Idles twice and told John Dwyer off for a bad Irish joke. Aine sets us all off chatting about Robson and Jerome.
Back pocket theme was the classic, best nu metal song.
Playlist, as always, is available on Spotify.
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22 Dec 2020
Songs to walk to, and then fight to
Hello!
This month we're chatting about walk in songs or entrance songs. If you were about to enter the boxing ring, what song would you have playing?
Back pocket theme is Christmas songs that aren't sh*t.
As always, we have a playlist with all the songs on Spotify, just search for Immature Themes.
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21 Nov 2020
Songs with women's names
Hello!
We're talking about ladies names this episode. Best songs about women or with women's names in the title.
Secondary theme is about songs that are pretty good but made great by their outro.
As always, playlist is on Spotify and you can email us at immaturethemes@gmail.com.
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12 Oct 2020
Songs to protest to
Hello! 2020 has seen a lot of protests so this month we're talking about our favourite protest songs. Lots of good picks from old Irish protest songs to more modern American protest music.
Secondary theme is about gateway songs - songs that led you to discover a whole new genre of music.
As always, playlist is on Spotify and you can email us at immaturethemes@gmail.com.
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18 Aug 2020
Songs you discovered from a film
In this months episode we talk about our favourite songs from movies and the greatest music moments we remember from tv. Playlist of all of the songs is available on Spotify.
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17 Jul 2020
Songs about growing older
Hello!
This month the theme is songs about growing older. What song do you hear on your birthday and cry a little to? And what is growing older? It's listening to nostalgic songs, right?
Back pocket theme: cover songs that sound better than the original. Lots of talk about Dirty Dancing.
To follow along, the playlist of all the songs mentioned is on Spotify under Immature Themes.
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13 Jun 2020
Songs that encapsulate the feeling of social isolation
Hello!
In this episode we talk about songs that encapsulate the feeling of social isolation. It's broad. It could be a monotonous song that goes on for six hours or something upbeat that reminds you of the world outside.
For the back pocket theme, Grier picked something very Grier: best last song on an album. What's that closing tune you just love? Grier made an entire playlist and still couldn't narrow us an answer down to a single song.
If you want to listen along with us, there's a playlist available on Spotify. It's called Immature Themes, just like this podcast. You can't miss it. Dummy.
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18 May 2020
Songs that work at 4PM and 4AM
Welcome to the first episode of Immature Themes!
The very first theme that we're chatting about is songs that work at 4PM AND at 4AM. It was a bit of a thinker and had some different interpretations. We also had a second, back-pocket theme: songs about revenge.
In the rambles, we chat about songs from the provinces of Ireland, that we happen to be from and how we all define the music we like.
Here's a link to a playlist with the songs that we've mentioned:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/71YHVPAnjlelUXPfejOWmi?si=r7hegnwDQf6MMPaQH6GFvw
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