Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

James struggles through another heavy album, and Glen tries to keep the episode length down to adhere to manufacturing restrictions.

Content Warnings: mild explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2024/03/22/episode-20-31-ten-thousand-guitars/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

In this episode, Glen drops some hot music theory and searches for a klaxon sound effect, and James asks: "why?"

Content Warnings: minor description of surgery on a baby (at roughly 8-10 minutes).

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2024/03/08/episode-19-32-more-satisfied-than-others/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

Would you be a better wrestler or darts player? This one came out longer than planned, but with good reason. We discuss childbirth, Christmas, speeding, hot chocolate, the ins-and-outs of comedy and free speech, and the usual two albums.

Content Warnings: discussion of childbirth and parenthood, some mild adult themes.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at hhttps://50by2.net/2024/02/23/episode-18-33/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We tap up two Irish solo artists for this episode. James finds some depressing music not depressing, and Glen is forced to reveal one of his most surprising secrets about his tastes. Over twenty-six hours of this, everybody.

Content Warnings: some explicit language late on.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2024/02/09/episode-17-34/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

When is a street corner not the street corner it appears to be? How big is Yorkshire? What does the world's greatest ever squash player have to do with any of this? What if Jarvis Cocker sounded a bit more like Roy Orbison? Where is your Mercury Bingo Card?

Content Warnings: some explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2024/01/26/episode-16-35-a-girl-named-keith/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We start a new year with a special award for James, and - as expected - talk about two albums. One, critically considered one of the best of its decade, the other might not even actually exist. We also return to the question: what is the worst band name ever?

Content Warnings: some explicit language and mild adult themes.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2024/01/12/episode-15-36/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

Two giants of music history clash in this episode, and one host fails to complete their homework on time. We give mentions to some of our favourite YouTubers, discuss some niche anatomy, and wonder what day it is. 

Content Warnings: some explicit language in music clips.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2023/12/29/episode-14-37-distracted-by-four-men-in-their-seventies/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

It's Christmas, and we fulfil seasonal obligation (or, as James would have it, celebrate the most wonderful time of the year) by talking about six Christmas songs.

Content Warnings: some mild explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2023/12/15/episode-13-5-christmas-special-bells-on-a-stick/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

This episode, we suffer from a short recording turnaround, and would both have liked longer than the four days we had with these albums. We begin what will become an ongoing discussion on the worst band names in history, drop a pen into the abyss, and postpone niceties.

Content Warnings: none.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2023/12/01/episode-13-38-my-favourite-fictional-us-president/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

On with the countdown, with - as is becoming usual - two very different albums. We also take some time to examine the top fifty albums of all time, according to sales numbers. How many will we talk about in this series?

Content Warnings: spoilers for Titanic.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2023/11/17/episode-12-39-i-was-very-moist/.

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