Podcast Corner: Netflix version of Song Exploder is the bomb for music fans
One of the best episodes of Song Exploder features Losing My Religion, by REM.
From Homecoming to Dirty John to Comedy Bang Bang, there have been plenty of TV adaptations of popular podcasts already - and there are many more true crime podcasts out there that you could imagine binge-watching on Netflix. Song Exploder, however, wouldn't have been top of our thoughts in making the crossover to TV.
And yet here we are - it recently released 'Volume One' of four episodes on Netflix. It follows the general outline of the podcast, which began in January 2014: Host Hrishikesh Hirway ever so slowly gets an artist to talk through one of their big hits as we hear the stems of a song, the thought process behind it, and how it all comes together. Listening to the full song at the end of the short episodes was like hearing it for the first time, coming at the track with a breadth of new knowledge.
