To wrap up our two parter on Pitchfork and the Pitchfork effect, we each picked an album Pitchfork gave a bad review of and decided to make a case as to why that record is good and why Pitchfork were wrong.
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This week we dive into the world music journalism, and how music publications can often make or break a band. Pitchfork is perhaps the biggest recent example of a publication that have the power to elevate bands or destroy them entirely. On this episode, we get into this weird phenomena.
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The Sound were a band every bit as good as Joy Division, Wire and Echo and the Bunnymen. This week Ferrucio returns to explain the genius of their sound, and we wax lyrical on how the press can make or break a band.
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Neil from The Accordion podcast joins us this week and he’s here to make a case as to why Finelines by My Vitriol is an unsung classic. Buzz band or quality songwriters? We leave that, as ever, up to you.
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We’ve taken a small break this week to deal with some life stuff. So, in place of a regular episode we thought we’d post this bonus episode we released to subscribers back in October 2019, where one of our donors asked us what our perfect festival line-up would be.
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Things get really rowdy in this episode. We talk about Millie Jackson’s discography before talking about Caught Up in full.
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Crag and Vicki join us this week as we slide into drunken oblivion whilst talking about Millie Jackson’s strange, wonderful career in part one of our two parter.
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New friends Fran and Babs from Over/underrated music podcast join us in part two of our Muse EPIC as we talk about the band’s entire discography and why Origin of Symmetry may or may not be an unsung classic…
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Our new pals Fran and Babs from Over/underrated music podcast join us in part one of this EPICE two parter on Muse. In part one we talk about the craziness of Matt Bellamy and ask who said it: Matt or Alex Jones?
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Our good pal Anna Goldthorp returns and takes us on a journey into the 60s garage rock revival scene with Shannon and the Clams’ third album Dreams in the Rat House. We also chat about much, much more besides…
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We welcome our friend and musician Kapil Seshasayee this week as we talk about the debut album by little known Scottish post rock band Long Fin Killie.
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It’s a crossover! We asked on Ryan Schaff from the awesome Broken Record Player Podcast to pick an album he felt was an unsung classic. He picked Tinderbox by Siouxsie and the Banshee. What a choice!
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Vicki returns this week to talk to us about the lush post-rock soundscapes of Do Make Say Think, and submits their seventh album, Stubborn Persistent Illusions, for inclusion in our canon of classics.
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Arthur Russell didn’t release a whole lot of music in his career, but he sure did record a bunch. This week Dave chooses Calling Out of Context, the first posthumous compilation of his work. Join us in exploring his strange musical world.
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Humbug. Josh Homme. The desert. All things we’ll be talking about this week as we give the third album by the Arctic Monkeys a good once over. Unsung classic? That’s up to you to decide. As ever.
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Is this the biggest band we’ve EVER covered? Probably not, but they are the first band we’ve had on the show with a song on Spotify that has over 1 billion streams. This week we’re talking about all things Arctic Monkeys. Their career, MySpace and more.
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Screamo is a genre that strikes fear in many hearts. We’re here to talk about what it is and why it strikes such fear in some people’s hearts. Then we talk about one of the OG skramz bands, as we discuss the noisy, frenetic debut of Circle Takes the Square. HISTORY!
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In part two we get round to the actual task of talking about Skunk Anansie’s debut album Paranoid and Sunburnt. Is it an unsung classic?
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Wooft. Our planned Skunk Anansie episode turned into a two parter. This week we chat about the band’s history, their legacy, their discography and a little of the Britrock scene they were part of in the mid to late 90s.
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On this episode each of us bought two albums costing £1 and gifted them to the other two. The albums were…questionable. But much fun was had and we know you folk will love the banter.
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