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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A little bit of an insight into the bonus content we’ve been providing lately. This is episode one of a mini series we’re running called Unsong, which is basically the name of our SINGLES CLUB. One song, analysed. Weaver’s picked this black metal banger.
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Whenever he smiled he apologised profusely and he only ate white food. He also owned over 100 umbrellas and is often seen as the father of ambient music. He is the classical composer Erik Satie and yes, we’re well out of our comfort zone here.
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We’ve discussed the history, now we discuss our favourites. We’ve picked three double albums that we think are the best examples of the genre. Now you get to decide which one of us is right…
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The dreaded double album! Where did they come from? Why do they exist? Are there any good ones?! We chat about the format, the excess, the ego and some of the best (and worst) examples of music’s much maligned artistic statement.
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We pick up right where we left off last week, as we talk about the band’s career from Archetype to the present day, detail the internal politics at play within the band at that time and of course Dave puts his case forward as to why Demanufacture is an unsung classic.
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Another influential band this week, as we talk about Fear Factory. We cover cyber metal, industrial metal, groove metal, the band’s first four albums and their fraught interpersonal relationships.
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Like so many artist’s we’ve covered on this show, this band are a real band’s band. Despite being touted as one of the best hip hop albums ever written, it’s not as well known as it should be. Let’s sort that, shall we?
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Our good pal, and veritable walking encyclopaedia of rock Ferruccio Quercetti, joins us this week as he nominates Brainiac’s third album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture.
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Our good pal, and veritable walking encyclopaedia of rock Ferruccio Quercetti, joins us this week as he nominates Brainiac’s third album Hissing Prigs in Static Couture.
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Part two of our interview with Andy Falkous sees us discuss three albums he thinks are unsung classics, taking in everything from angular disco-punk to psychedelic hip hop. It’s a ride.
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This week we have part one of our interview with Andy Falkous from mclusky and Future of the Left. We talk about his career, some of the things he thinks have been under appreciated from his catalogue, IKEA furniture, Diet Coke and more. A wonderfully funny chat.
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On this episode we tackle all of Scott Walker’s albums from 1984’s Climate of Hunter until his final studio release with Sunn O))). We then talk about why Nite Flights is truly unsung.
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Even though we’re doing Nite Flights by The Walker Brothers, this two parter is basically all about Scott Walker. In this part, we talk about The Walker Brothers and Scott’s early solo career right up until the 1980s.
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This week we pick three albums by supergroups that we each enjoy: The Director’s Cut by Fantomas, Take a Break by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and NOLA by Down.
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