Well, after 171 hours of listening starting back in 2023, I am finally caught up with the podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs. This is one of those cases where the podcast medium perfectly lines up with the intent, since fair-use clips of music for illustration can be regularly inset in the show and give you insights into the music that a book could never provide.

Andrew Hickey has slowed his pace a good bit since he started the podcast. While I have doubts about whether he will ever actually make it to song #500, even through the first 177 songs he has provided me a wonderful background education about the development of rock music from the early 20th century up through the late 1960s.

Now that I’m caught up, I need to figure out what podcast becomes my next binge show. I’ve let my Filmspotting backlog get pretty big, I might do a quick scan through at least the review bits of those. Otherwise I’m open to suggestions!