After spending ten years as the frontman of bands like the patchenka world fusion outfit Mano Negra and the Parisian pub-rock group Hot Pants, Manu Chao lost both his band and his long-term girlfriend. He then spent three years in suicidal exile trekking across South America and West Africa, before returning to music with “Clandestino” - his debut solo album recorded on a laptop with international guests from the collective known as Radio Bemba. It went on to spearhead the world music trend at the turn of the millennium, and sell five million copies. Not only that, but it’s #469 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it this week, and got into it on everything from Francisco Franco and Robbie Williams to Subcomandante Marcos and the University of Southern California. All that and more, plus an unfathomably spicy chapter of Secret Posho, on the thirty-second episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Cash Money Records may have released albums by Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, but this searing quadruple-platinum slice of New Orleans bounce-inflected trap-predicting hip-hop outsold all of them. Largely produced by southern rap legend Mannie Fresh, Juvenile’s third album broke into the mainstream with mega-hits like “Ha” and “Back That Azz Up”. Not only that, but it’s #470 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail get into it/over it on subjects such as “Shake Ya Ass” by Mystikal, “Shake That” by Eminem, Juvie’s juvenilia squad The Hot Boys, reupholstery, Scottish Seinfeld, and the Saint-Denis area of the Playstation 4 game Red Dead Redemption 2. All that and more, plus an underwhelming edition of Secret Posho, on the thirty-first episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Jefferson Airplane were iconic to dirty hippies across the world in the sixties, as the only band to headline Woodstock, Altamont and the Monterey Pop festivals. “Surrealistic Pillow” was saved from record company meddling by the spiritual advisory of Grateful Dead honcho Jerry Garcia, and went on to become the defining soundtrack to the Summer Of Love. Not only that, but it’s #471 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. Christopher and Liam get into it/over it on topics such as Grace Slick’s incredible vocals, the 1998 science fiction film The Matrix, the poor bodyguarding skills of the Hells Angels, Richard Nixon, and “We Built This City” by Jefferson Starship. All that and more, plus a scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on the thirtieth episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

#472 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the modern masterpiece of confessional R&B, “Cntrl” by SZA. Christopher and Liam enjoyed it for the first time and get into it and over it about the Wu-Tang Clan, the proper pronunciation of the word ‘SZA’, hot stone massage, ‘Donda’, the term ‘alternative R&B’, talking to your mum, and watery guitars. All that and more, plus Secret Posho, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Big Star’s lead singer Alex Chilton went platinum as a teenager as the lead singer of The Box Tops, and this record has been cited as an influential masterpiece by members of R.E.M., Kiss, Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements and Primal Scream. So why was it one of the biggest flops in power-pop history? Liam and Christopher do a deep dive on this gem with a particularly spicy incarnation of Secret Posho, plus a banger of a quiz that leaves Liam utterly flummoxed. It might not really have been a #1 record, but it’s #474 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Enjoy!

All we wanna do is have some fun, and we’ve got a feeling that we’re not the only ones. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have spent a week listening to Sheryl Crow’s self-titled sophomore alt-blues smasher, and now they’re going to talk about it. Is Sheryl Crow a distinct separate person from Cheryl Cole? Who would you “fuck/marry/kill” out of Lance Armstrong, Owen Wilson and Eric Clapton? And is Sheryl Cole personally responsible for the suicide of a short story writer? All that and more, plus another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on episode 26 of Enjoy An Album.

We watched the new Edgar Wright-directed documentary ‘The Brothers Sparks’, we done a deep dive on the 1974 glam rock classic ‘Kimono My House’, and we spent seven days here in heaven with Sparks. Liam presents Secret Posho, Christopher is back with a brand new quiz, but is this town big enough for the both of them? This isn’t amatuer hour as the Enjoy An Album boys go head-to-head on topics such as the hinterlands, Buckethead, the brothers’ long career, and whether or not this is the single best album we’ve listened to in the list so far in episode 25 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent the week digging in to #477 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: “Moaning In The Moonlight” by Howlin’ Wolf. It’s another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, as well as spicy discussion on topics such as Wolf’s feud with Muddy Waters, the Chicago blues style, harmonicas, and the grand return of Blind Willie Dixon and Slimcock Bumblebee Balls.  Order up a big plate of B.B. king-sized nachos and listen to episode 24 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

“Something Else by The Kinks” by The Kinks

Family feuds and working-class self-sabotage simmer to the surface as the Kinks move on from their early-days Moddish rave-ups towards the nuanced character studies of their peak in this transitional sleeper masterpiece. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it about their grandads, badgers, the nature of British imperialism, Cockney appropriation, Hey Jude, Wes Anderson, RHCP and counterfeit Barcelona football kits. All that as well as Secret Posho and Quiz. Enjoy!