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Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog: “Falsifiable”

September 24, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer 6 Comments

FalsifiableListen to "Falsifiable."

It was not my intention to write a tune specifically to go with this episode, but just before we recorded it, I did get this sort of disco thing going in my head, and jotted down some lyrics, and it just wouldn't let me alone. I waited until it was too late to get anyone to help me with the recording, but the song is goofy enough that I don't know that it required full band treatment anyway.

Here's the concept: a scumbag husband (and keep in mind that my wife's doing graduate studies in domestic violence, so I get to hear plenty of stories of manipulation and cruelty) uses Popper's theory to defend his cheating and neglect and all: love is not supposed to be science, so it's not falsifiable, so you can't prove that I don't love you, so ha!

Hope dig it... be sure to listen through to the end where it gets a bit creepy and a whole arrangement shows up for like 5 seconds.

-Mark Linsenmayer

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  1. Tammy says

    September 27, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    “Hope dig it… be sure to listen through to the end where it gets a bit creepy and a whole arrangement shows up for like 5 seconds.”

    I have to ask is the slowing creepy riff a Neil Young spin-off?

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    • Mark Linsenmayer says

      September 27, 2013 at 5:24 pm

      I was thinking more Pink Floyd’s “Breathe,” but that’d work.

      Reply
  2. Maxx Bartko says

    September 28, 2013 at 8:56 am

    This has got to be one of my all-time favorites from the end-of-episode tunes, especially the rendering of totalitarianism in a domestic setting. Love it, as well as the rest of the episode. I can’t wait for the Kuhn and I hope you do some Lakatos.

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  3. Mark Viscid Gillis says

    April 29, 2014 at 7:08 pm

    This is certainly the best end song yet. Very amusing, great work.

    Reply

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