Terror in Turtlenecks

Season 2, Episode 2 - Is 1971 Overrated? (1st July 2021)

It was the year of the Ibrox tragedy, the Apollo 14 moon landing, decimal currency, Evel Knievel, the very first Starbucks, the Apollo 15 moon landing, George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, the first Mr Men book, the Attica prison riot, the foundation of Greenpeace,  the Cambodian civil war, Mars 3 - the first craft to land on Mars, and A Clockwork Orange.

We've chosen three tracks to represent the year:

'Southern Man' by Neil Young
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5FCcDEA6mY

'Funny Funny' by The Sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd8JHqjHJ5U

'What's Going On?' by Marvin Gaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M

We also try to decipher the lyrics to 'Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves' by Cher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xHhWkz5aMc

Overrated Criterion Album Collection: 'What's Going On?' by Marvin Gaye

Jeremy Recommends:
'The Six Teens' by The Sweet
https://youtu.be/hFxJsCKjanU

Jeremy Recommends (albums)
'Desolation Boulevard' by The Sweet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolation_Boulevard

'Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd' by The Monkees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces,_Aquarius,_Capricorn_%26_Jones_Ltd.

Vince Can't Remember:
'Love Is Like Oxygen' by The Sweet
https://youtu.be/zRgWvvkSvfk

Vince Recommends:
'Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)' by Marvin Gaye
https://youtu.be/p_PxgSQ9Vf4

You've Got to See it to Believe it!:
'Stairway To Heaven ' - The Far Corporation
https://youtu.be/KO066OFUuNQ

Season 2, Episode 1a - 'Rain' by The Beatles (19th June 2021)

The first of our new companion shows, dedicated to a track by the Untouchables (that's The Beatles, not the cast of the 1987, Oscar winning film).

As an accompaniment to our main show, we discuss a Beatles track and Vince fills in the gaps, reading from Ian MacDonald's unsurpassed 'Revolution in The Head - The Beatles' Records and The Sixties'.

And of course, every show, Vince attempts to outfox Jeremy with a Beatles question.

'Rain' -  The Beatles 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5G8fPmWeA

Season 2, Episode 1 - Is Rain Overrated? (5th June 2021)

Season 2 of our rebooted and re-branded show gets off to a wet and sploshy start with a show themed around rain.   We don wellies and open umbrellas as we discuss three songs representative of an artist, and then Jeremy gets to rate them because THAT'S WHAT HE DOES HE CAN'T BE STOPPED HELP HE'S A MONSTER!

Who will be found underrated?  Or more likely, overrated?

The songs in this show:

'Rainy Days and Mondays' by The Carpenters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGikhmjTSZI

'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO28lB1uwp4

'Here Comes the Rain Again' by The Eurythmics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohZ0dqaP64

Jeremy Recommends:

'Superstar' by The Carpenters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmmaIGiGBg

'So Good to be Back Home Again' by The Tourists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWaFcZGp-2c

Vince Recommends:

'You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart' by The Eurythmics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQpJqtfCmcM

Vince Can't Remember:

'Run Through the Jungle' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

We're releasing a few tiny little episodes over the festive season as a Christmas treat. 

8. Revolution in the Head - The Missing Entries / A Day In The Life

Vince opens up his shiny new copy of our 'Beatles Bible', Ian MacDonald's amazing "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Music and the Sixties", and reads the entry on "A Day In The Life",  which he missed on a previous show. You know, for completeness.

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

We're releasing a few tiny little episodes over the festive season as a Christmas treat. 

7. Revolution in the Head - The Missing Entries / Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Vince opens up his shiny new copy of our 'Beatles Bible', Ian MacDonald's amazing "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Music and the Sixties", and reads the entry on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer'', which he missed on a previous show. You know, for completeness.

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

We're releasing a few tiny little episodes over the festive season as a Christmas treat. 

6. Revolution in the Head - The Missing Entries / Cry Baby Cry

Vince opens up his shiny new copy of our 'Beatles Bible', Ian MacDonald's amazing "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Music and the Sixties", and reads the entry on "Cry Baby Cry", which he missed on a previous show. You know, for completeness.

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

We're releasing a few tiny little episodes over the festive season as a Christmas treat. 

5. Revolution in the Head - The Missing Entries / Magical Mystery Tour

Vince opens up his shiny new copy of our 'Beatles Bible', Ian MacDonald's amazing "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Music and the Sixties", and reads the entry on "Magical Mystery Tour", which he missed on a previous show. You know, for completeness.

Episode 30:  The Last of the Analogues  - Christmas Special  (December 30th 2020)

'The Podcast that looks to the future now, it’s only just begun'

This episode: 

Vince fuses the growly voices of Jimmy Saville, Chris Rea and Barry White into a terrifying unholy trinity, and wistfully recalls the nose-biting, toe-nipping harsh winter of 1982 and the smell of his Dad’s single malt whisky as they watched together the Dave Allen Christmas Show late into the night; Neil reprimands Led Zeppelin for not being festive enough, ponders the weighty issue of the generation gap between the Analogues and Millennials, and muses on the currency of shared cultural experiences like the spectacular double-issue Radio Times, Christmas Number Ones, and getting plastered in pubs you otherwise avoided the rest of the year.

Jeremy finally returns from his mysterious sabbatical to immediately compare Johnny Mathis to Kim Jong-Il, Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011, wax lyrical about his childhood Christmases, and lament the melancholy ending of the season as symbolised by the remaining, unwanted and unwrapped hard and chewy golden toffee in the otherwise empty and forlorn Quality Street tin. 

And we say goodbye to the old and ring in the new as we look ahead to exciting changes to the show in the coming year.

FULL TRACK LISTING 

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free) 

Driving Home for Christmas  – Chris Rea 

When a Child is Born – Johnny Mathis 

The Christmas Song  – Nat King Cole 

Stop the Calvary  – Jona Lewie 

Hello, Goodbye – The Beatles

JEREMY RECOMMENDS 

Too Much, Too Little, Too Late – Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams 

 NEIL RECOMMENDS 

 Mona Lisa – Nat King Cole 

 VINCE RECOMMENDS 

 You’ll Always Find Me in The Kitchen at Parties – Jona Lewie 

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

We're releasing a few tiny little episodes over the festive season as a Christmas treat. 

4. Revolution in the Head - The Missing Entries / Day Tripper

Vince opens up his shiny new copy of our 'Beatles Bible', Ian MacDonald's amazing "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Music and the Sixties", and reads the entry on "Day Tripper", which he missed on a previous show. You know, for completeness.

OVERRATED CHRISTMAS STOCKING FILLER

3. The Joshua Tree -  U2

Jeremy bought a copy of U2's The Joshua Tree (gasp!) and actually listened to it (gasp!) and recorded his thoughts (gasp!) for you all to enjoy this Christmastime.