Feist—“1234”

Imagine, you’re on the road with an indie sleaze band making sock puppets sing obscenities when Sesame Street gives you a call. Leslie Feist’s career can be compared to the life of Benjamin Button because her most successful and youthful song, “1234,” came later in her colorful and previously raucous music career. Rob breaks down Feist’s magical ability to bring new perspectives to covers and sing emotion into numbers before he is joined by Canadian filmmaker Chandler Levack. They discuss the role Feist’s music played in soundtracking Chandler’s college years and how this affected her most recent film, Mile End Kicks, which follows a young music journalist becoming increasingly involved in the music scene she’s documenting.

Listen to the songs from the episode: ’00s #44 Feist “1234”

Host: Rob Harvilla
Producers: Olivia Crerie, Julianna Ress, Chris Sutton, and Justin Sayles
Additional Video Editing: Kevin Pooler
Guest: Chandler Levack