Lost Notes (Various Seasons)
4.8/5
Critic Rating
This season on Lost Notes: Groupies. Women of the Sunset Strip from the Pill to Punk. From KCRW and Golden Teapot.
Critic Reviews
Score: 4.9
Fiona Sturges • Financial Times • Oct 20, 2024
"(Season: Groupies) Groupies does a good job of conveying the perceived glamour and licentiousness of the era, and the concept of building a podcast around the women at the heart of the scene is a good one; you only hope the ethical questions will be addressed later on. Thus far, the series seems to buy into time-honoured rock’n’roll mythology: that young girls happily threw themselves into a life of wildness and excess and a lovely time was had by all."
Score: 4.5
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Oct 19, 2024
"(Seasons: Groupies) ...fun but that strapline makes it sound more revealing than it really is...an opening anecdote told for fun that is, quite frankly, chilling..."
Score: 5
Nicholas Quah • Vulture • Nov 10, 2021
"(Season: Snap!) Bent by Nature is a family affair in many ways, one that carries the slight air of an overdue wake. Even if SNAP! means little to you, there’s a lot here about the texture, legacy, and influence of late-night radio to warrant your attention."
Score: 4.8
Ashley Lusk • Bello Collective • Dec 2, 2020
"Let Wonder be your gateway into Lost Notes: 1980, an expansive series about a decade that shaped and defined the generations of music that followed it."
Score: 4.5
Angie Fiedler Sutton • Contents May Vary • Nov 23, 2019
"It’s also a bit difficult for me to figure out what — outside of that general description — the podcast is trying to accomplish. But maybe that broadness is intentional. I mean, look at my own podcast and how broad my concept is. If you like music journalism, it’s definitely worth a listen — but more in a “dip your toes in and sample what interests you” more than “inhale the whole series”."
Score: 5
Brendan Mattox • PodcastReview.org • Sep 5, 2019
"It might yet be impossible to write about music without always returning to the forces outside of it that shape its production. Nevertheless, as a social history of marginalization at a particular moment in music history, Lost Notes is an unqualified success. You really ought to listen to it."
