Records & Bands

In which our hero talks nonsense about Terrorvision's sophomore album, How to Make Friends and Influence People.

Full Show including my favourite songs from this album on Mixcloud

Today we're looking at an album, and a band that are quite difficult to stick in a box...they're a very British band but definitely not Britpop, their records came out at the same time as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and all those Seattle bands but they're certainly not grunge... they've toured with Def Leppard, played Festivals alongside Metallica and Marilyn Manson and headlined some of the country's finest venues over the last 30 odd years proving that sometimes, all you need... is some massive riffs, some big hooky choruses and a bunch of lads from Bradford bouncing around like Zebedee.

Lots going on over on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

In which our hero talks nonsense about Guns 'n' Roses

Listen to the complete show with all the tunes over on MIXCLOUD

In today's show I compile my Top 5 songs by one of my favourite bands, Guns 'n' Roses, have a look at some opinions of others who actually get paid for their opinions and hear the thoughts of you, the dear listener.

Whether you're a fan of the sweaty, sleazy Appetite era, love the pomposity and grandeur of the Use Your Illusion albums and subsequent mega tours or, and I'm sure this is a minority, you love The Chinese Democracy, there's something here for you.

As mentioned in the show...

That FKing Guy

Pat Veil - Check out his Music please

Dino Corvino

Find the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

In which our hero talks nonsense about his Top 5 favourite albums*

Listen to the complete show with all the tunes over on MIXCLOUD

After running through a long list of great albums in the previous show, I play some of my favourite tracks from my favourite records. 

This ranking probably changes everyday but is a good snapshot of what gets me going at the moment.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

Please consider listening on Mixcloud for the full show AND all the bonus playlists and mixtapes I can share on that platform...loads going on over there.

Cheers

Rob

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In which our hero talks nonsense about his Top 5 favourite albums*

Listen to the complete show with all the tunes over on MIXCLOUD

After running through a long list of great albums in the previous show, I play some of my favourite tracks from my favourite records. 

This ranking probably changes everyday but is a good snapshot of what gets me going at the moment.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

Oh... here's me and Planty chatting Ben Folds "On Being Frank"

Please consider listening on Mixcloud for the full show AND all the bonus playlists and mixtapes I can share on that platform...loads going on over there.

In which our hero talks nonsense about his favourite albums of all time and plays some tracks from a few of them

Listen to the complete show with all the tunes over on MIXCLOUD

Best of lists. Top 100s. Top 5 guitarists you never heard of, Greatest bands in the history of the universe and time and space and whatever....the internet is full of lists and a lot of the time it's always the same records, by the same bands and artists and I rarely listen to any of them

So I sat down to make my own list of 25 which quickly became 50, then 60 and finally after about 15 minutes I stopped on 108. You won't find many of them in the Rolling Stone Top 500 or a Kerrang Top 50 but they're a good representation of the music that gets me going.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

Please consider listening on Mixcloud for the full show AND all the bonus playlists and mixtapes I can share on that platform...loads going on over there.

Cheers

Rob

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In which our hero talks nonsense about his favourite albums of all time and plays some tracks from a few of them

Listen to the complete show with all the tunes over on MIXCLOUD

Best of lists. Top 100s. Top 5 guitarists you never heard of, Greatest bands in the history of the universe and time and space and whatever....the internet is full of lists and a lot of the time it's always the same records, by the same bands and artists and I rarely listen to any of them

So I sat down to make my own list of 25 which quickly became 50, then 60 and finally after about 15 minutes I stopped on 108. You won't find many of them in the Rolling Stone Top 500 or a Kerrang Top 50 but they're a good representation of the music that gets me going.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

Please consider listening on Mixcloud for the full show AND all the bonus playlists and mixtapes I can share on that platform...loads going on over there.

Cheers

Rob

In which our hero talks nonsense about where the show's been and where it's going.

Records & Bands has a new home and it's MIXCLOUD.... a platform that allows us to actually play the music we're talking about so it seems an obvious place to build the new rebooted podcast!

Music Free version of the shows will still be uploaded to the usual podcast feed but all the exciting shenanigans will be on Mixcloud

LINKS

MIXCLOUD - the new home for Records & Bands

SUBSTACK - This is where I'm hanging out online, chatting with cool people about cool stuff...Warning - It's just for cool kids.

INSTAGRAM - For all my vinyl/tape collecting tomfoolery

Death Is Not The End - the podcast where I soundtracked my life...it's really good but then, all his stuff is. Check it all out.

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In which our heroes talk s*** about music for people who don't like music

Mark Plant from 100 Things We Learned From Film joins me as we get into upcoming albums from Punk "Legends"?, share our "favourite" example of beige music and have a little quiz

RECENT LISTENS:

• Paul Simon
• Dylan Gossett

UPCOMING RELEASES:

• Black Keys
• Cock Sparrer
• Bob Vylan

BEIGE SONGS FOR BEIGE PEOPLE PLAYLIST:

A few of the names included on our playlist

• Macy Gray
• David Gray
• Dido
• Coldplay (obviously)
• Paul Weller's solo stuff because he once told Planty to f*** off outside a club in Nottingham

And a few more besides.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

Planty picks Aussie punk trio The Living Ends eponymous album....The Living End. Which leads to a brief chat about some great Australian bands from the turn of the century

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In which our heroes talk s*** about The Eagles, Pulp and U2

Sam is with us tis week as we discuss my U2 mission and his love of The Eagles, we also choose a record of the week, share some reviews of a massive album, play pop quizzes and make a playlist of title tracks.

RECENT LISTENS:

• U2
• The River
• Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

UPCOMING RELEASES:

• Elbow
• Gossip
• Lauran Hibberd

TITLE TRACK PLAYLIST:

A few of the names included on our playlist

• Bruce Springsteen
• Crash Test Dummies
• The Doors
• Jason Isbell
• Paul Simon
• Zach Bryan

And a few more besides.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

Sam picks Different Class by Pulp as our record of the week and it's a great choice...good work Sammy.

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In which our heroes talk s*** about solo records from Iron Maiden vocalists.

Leon joins me this week as we get into his thoughts on the new solo records from Iron Maiden frontmen Bruce Dickinson and Blaze Bayley while I give my early first impressions type thoughts on Norther by Shane Smith and the Saints.

We also look at some upcoming releases, chat about some other interesting side/solo projects and I make Leon play my silly little pop trivia games.

RECENT LISTENS:

• Blaze Bayley
• Genesis
• The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
• Go West
• Shane Smith and the Saints

UPCOMING RELEASES:

• The Black Crows
• Kayce Musgraves
• Mad Caddies

SIDE PROJECT PLAYLIST:

A few of the names included on our playlist

• Bruce Dickinson
• James Dean Bradfield
• Layne Staley
• The Power Station
• John Frusciante

And a few more besides.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

Leon picked this weeks record and it's the 2023 album Hackney Diamonds from the Rolling Stones which I definitely did not compare to a Supergrass record. Definitely not a thing that I would do.

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