Rich Price and Clint Bierman
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The Age Old Question is an insightful and hilarious podcast for the music fan who has ever debated music's unanswerables. Each episode tackles another debate in music fandom ("Is D Minor the saddest of all keys?" "Why do people hate the Eagles?"...). Rich Price and Clint Bierman host and call on friends and experts to help settle them once and for all. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rich Price and Clint Beerman make familiar music debates more revealing by tracing the craft, history, and taste beneath each answer.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman turn stubborn music arguments into guided listening: choose a question, assemble contenders, then test instinct against songwriting craft, cultural memory, and outside perspectives.
A Steely Dan T-shirt lyric sparks a whole debate; you'll be thinking of your own nominee.
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A question-title debate that moves from listener picks to Motown and isolated tracks.
Question-title songs are mostly the hook, but the stronger pull is hearing Rich Price and Clint Beerman turn a listener-suggested prompt into a loose, lively music debate.
A comeback debate that keeps music history moving like an argument.
The episode frames the greatest comeback in music history as a clear, running argument, with Rich Price and Clint Bierman moving through Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin, American Recordings, Hurt, and Elvis without losing sight of the central question.
A lively argument that mixes drumming lore, pop history, and a very big Phil Collins pivot.
The episode takes a familiar fandom debate and gives it a sharp, entertaining angle: the rare drummer who can also lead the band. It moves from stage layout to the odd logistics of singing from behind the kit, then settles on Phil Collins as the main reference point, while the…
A playful music-fandom debate that keeps circling back to clever self-references.
The episode starts with Mark's Steely Dan question and turns it into a familiar music-fandom puzzle: what is the best self-reference by a band in a song?
A lively Bond-theme debate that turns pop history into a real-time argument.
The episode treats Bond themes as a pop-music debate worth having, and it keeps the focus on why the question matters. Rich Price and Clint Beerman move through the official songs with memories, song history, and plain preference, circling back to Live and Let Die, Nobody Does…
A sequel that turns lyric one liners into a pointed, reflective conversation about what they can do.
Part two stays with listener suggestions and the old question of what makes a lyric land. Rich Price and Clint Beerman treat it like a familiar fandom argument, then work through examples such as "Let It Be" and the Dawes line from "Crack the Case" to show how a few words can…
A loose, affectionate conversation about what makes a children's album stand out, with Ziggy Marley and Johnny Cash in the mix.
The piece asks a simple question and keeps it grounded with examples that actually fit, from Ziggy Marley to Johnny Cash's 1975 children's album on Columbia Records.
A loose, lively argument about the lines that make songs stick.
The episode takes a plain fandom question and stretches it into a spirited argument about how a song earns its final line. Rich Price and Clint Beerman keep the pace up with memory, trivia, and a little friendly pushback, which gives the discussion an easy, conversational feel…
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Annual Songlines Music Awards ceremonies spotlighting global artists, from Afrobeat to sevda.
A high schooler's music diary — Grammys press pass stories to family concert interviews.
Stephen Hyden and Ian Cohen argue about indie rock, one Metacritic score at a time.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman ask whether the most profound lyric of all time might be Paul McCartney’s “The Undertaker drew a heavy sigh / Seeing no one else had come,” first heard while driving during "Band on the Run." They trace the song to Lagos, Nigeria in September 1973, mention the stolen demo tapes at knife point, and use that story to set up the lyric’s grim image of an undertaker disappointed that nobody died.
The question is simple: which TV theme song is the best of all time?
Rich Price and Clint Beerman open The Age Old Question by asking how artificial intelligence is changing music, then use Dustin Ballard’s There I Ruined It videos to show Elvis singing 'Baby Got Back' and Frank Sinatra singing Ludacris.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman build the episode around one question: what is the best reference to another band in a song, as listener Mark’s follow-up to their earlier self-reference episode.
Never judge a song by its title.
Rich and Clint finally tackle breakup songs.
Fifty years of SNL, one stubborn music question.
What makes a great question song?
Rich Price and Clint Beerman narrow the episode to songs that reference drugs, starting with The Weeknd's 'I Can't Feel My Face,' which they call a thinly veiled cocaine song that reached number one for three weeks in 2015.
Rich and Clint debate the greatest comeback in music history.
Rich Price and Clint Bierman ask “What is the greatest driving song of all time?” and begin with Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild,” which they note came out in May 1968 and became famous after Easy Rider in 1969.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman frame The Age-Old Question around “who is the greatest singing drummer of all time,” then narrow it to drummers who are also the band’s lead voice.
Rich Price and Clint Bierman build the episode around a listener comment about the best self-reference by a band in a song.
Rich and Clint explore songs with numbers in their titles, debating which is the greatest.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman open with a childhood memory of James Bond as a family event.
Part two of exploring the most profound lyrics in music history, featuring guest submissions and hosts' personal discoveries.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman open with a simple question: what is the greatest children's album of all time?
Rich Price and Clint Beerman circle back to an older opening-lines debate and turn it toward endings.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman kick things off with a listener-suggested question about the greatest song about songwriting.
The Age-Old Question explores America's greatest songwriter, Bob Dylan, through the lens of an all-star benefit concert held at Burlington's Flynn Theater to raise money for Vermont farmers devastated by July flooding.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman frame "What Is The Greatest Instruction Song?" around listener-suggested tracks like "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," "The Gambler," and "Lose Yourself." They connect Paul Simon's 1975 Rolling Stone quote about waking up in his Central Park apartment to the line "The problem is all inside your head," then compare it with Kenny Rogers' 1978 hit and Don Schlitz's comments to Casey Kasem.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman ask a simple question with a lot of room inside it: what is the best song in an odd time signature?
I can't wait to get laid off: when exhaustion meets romantic hope in country music form.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman explore what makes the best sing-along song through five rules: easy-to-remember lyrics, key everyone can sing, call-and-response hooks, harmony potential, and generational transcendence.
My funeral gift to my bandmate: Wildflowers, memorized, no safety net.
The pocket—that sweet groove between hi-hat and snare—is where the soul feels warm.
Rich Price and Clint Beerman open with the idea that days of the week are one of songwriting's most familiar subjects.
Let's do it
Beethoven's Ninth was too weird when it premiered.