Episodes

Been a while since we did an electronic record so Chris decides to bring us into the hypnotic, sorta trippy world of Factory Floor’s self titled debut album.

We’ve decided to completely reshape our Patreon, making it more appealing and fun for music lovers everywhere.

This week we’re chatting about Jawbox and their influential third album For Your Own Special Sweetheart. We also ponder how such a strange band ended up on a major label, and how it probably relates to the grunge gold rush of the era.

Babs from Over/underrated music joins us again this week to talk about one of her favourite bands - Belgian alt-rockers Millionaire. Oh and they’re one of Christopher’s too. This is a bumper episode as we discuss the Belgian music scene as well as the band themselves. Strap in and listen up!

We decide to kick off 2022 with a bang and our first album of the year is a biggie - South of Heaven by Slayer. We go deep on the band and their legacy. It’s a fun chat about a great band.

Christmas is in the review now, and we’re well into the New Year but that won’t stop us from keeping the cheer around a little bit longer. This week we conclude Xmas Xtravaganza in boozy style and also talk about our favourite albums of 2021. Yaldi.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS! We answer some more of your questions this week, such as which bands are shite but have great songs? Which hot takes in music are you sick of? And if you could only watch one artist for the rest of your life, who would it be?

SIMPLY. HAVING. A WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME. Yes, it’s Xmas. So we answer your questions and get progressively drunker over the course of three episodes. You know the drill by now, but if you’re new…we asked our listeners to send us some serious and some silly questions and we answered. This is also EPISODE 200! CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT?! Thanks to all who have taken time to listen to our pod this year and any year. x

Chris got COVID so our 200th episode has been postponed. Instead, we fished out a recording we forgot to release and present to you episode 1 of Demolicious, where all three of us review our own bands first demos. Fancy letting us review your first demo? Get in touch!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Things get really rowdy in this episode. We talk about Millie Jackson’s discography before talking about Caught Up in full.

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.

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…