Sweet Child Of Time: Recaps Of Time Related TV Shows And Movies · Steve Barnes hosts; cohosts James McCollum, and Lindsey Dunn

Songs About Time Part 2 with Sarah Ellis

December 30, 2025·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

Steve opens with unfinished business. The earlier songs-about-time chat only had room for The Beatles' Now and Then and Sub Rosa's Borrowed Time, Borrowed Eyes, and neither pick quite won the other person over. So Sarah Ellis comes back, introduced through her acting credits, then pulled straight into room-stealing domestic banter. She is broadcasting from her older daughter's room, which gives the episode a nice bit of everyday mess before the music talk tightens. Iron Maiden changes the mood fast. Sarah's first response to Wasted Years is awe at the speed and control of the playing. She hears the craft before she chases the meaning. From there, she gets into pop culture packaging, image management, branding, and the way artists can be polished down until the rough parts disappear. She wants the song to land somewhere specific. For Sarah, the title points to touring: suitcases, missed births, missed funerals, and the weird grind of performing far from home. Steve lets her build the thought. She checks who Iron Maiden were, lands on their English heavy metal roots, and gets especially caught by Bruce Dickinson. The fencing detail stops being trivia once Sarah links his endurance to the physical work of fronting a band through six performances a week on a long tour. The ending gets scrappy in a good way. Steve and Sarah compare heavy metal's emotional jab with cruel online behavior, then pull apart artful intensity from cheap cruelty. The final joke stays loose and pointed. It feels less like a ranked song list than a fan conversation about skill, mess, performance, and music that wants to poke you awake.

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