It's time for another of our bonus episodes and this month we are extremely lucky to have secured the services of British music journalism royalty, David Stubbs. Dan and Tom pick out the best and worst of British music from the pre-Thatcher era of 1977-79. David was a staff writer at Melody Maker magazine in the 80s as well as numerous other music publications and has his own bibliography of British comedy analysis and musical deep dives so adds a tremendous volume of knowledge to our usual discussion in the round. We highlight our favourite singles and albums as well as the bands that we find to be quite overhyped, and discover which particular artist was not a fan of one of David's reviews as well as, obviously, the most pertinent of questions in his favourite musical year and selection for the undeniable banger hall of fame.

We would like to thank David for taking the time to chat with us, and for the uninitiated we implore you to check out his contributions to Chart Music Podcast for their hilarious Top of the Pops commentary. You can find them on Twitter here, David's account here and our own Twitter page right here. Let us know your thoughts on some of our controversial selections and we'll be back with another episode soon, with more new voices!

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The latest episode of The Cacophony Sessions sees regulars Dan, Martyn, Alex, Tom and Dave nominating their favourite songs designed for getting one's proverbial freak on. This month we discern your Barry Whites from your Cilla Blacks so join us as we select three songs each to get you through the sexiest of times. This one obviously contains some adult themes, as well as the normal amount of swearing and fighting.

Find out which all-time sex jam was used in Robin Williams' Bicentennial Man, which two songs have been certified as undeniably banging this month and if Martyn has been working a lot and cycling about (spoiler alert: obvs).

The playlist can be found on the blog, or you can contact us on Twitter directly @cacsessionspod whereby we will send it to you publicly with the message 'THE SEX PLAYLIST YOU REQUESTED' loudly attached.

Enjoy, and please continue to support us on social media and let us know what you'd like to hear going forward.

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Life got in the way, but do not fret as The Cacophony Sessions Podcast is back and longer than ever! The first of two episodes in May to make up for the lack of an update in April sees Dan as well as the regular line up Alex, Martyn, Tom and Dave selecting songs that we suspect would be found on the walkman of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman from the years 1985-88.

The 1991 book and 2000 film are both renowned for their use of musical references delivered from the perspective of psychotic killer Patrick Bateman who masquerades as an 80s stockbroker by day. We've come up with 25 songs between us that are not mentioned in the novel or used in the movie soundtrack to justify talking about the 80s for two and a half hours.

So if you want to find out who was in the band 'Cork the Bitch's Ass',  which singer Dan had a crush on in his pre-school years and which albums Tom's Dad owns, listen to this. If you don't, we mention at least three other things as well. This one is very sweary and very heated. In other words, it won't disappoint.

All music courtesy of Longships, Danny W & The Dope and DJ Funktapuss.

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For the thirtieth anniversary, the latest episode of The Cacophony Sessions sees Dan, Tom, Alex, Martyn and Dave nominating what we think are the twenty best songs of 1991. We each nominated thirty songs and scored them out of fifty, and tonight, we discuss the scores. We cover everything from hip-hop to dance to grunge so we hope you'll agree with at least some of them!

Other than that we find the links between Pearl Jam, Ronan Keating and the Star Wars theme, Al gives us his best Sepultura karaoke, Baphomet remains elusive and there are more than a fair share of surprise results along the way.

Head to our blog where you can review the full list of 150 songs we put forward, along with how they scored and even links to the Spotify and Apple Music playlists we've compiled so you can listen along!

https://thecacophonysessions.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/top-150-songs-of-1991/

All music courtesy of Tom F, DJ Funktapuss and Martyn Ley (aka Longships).

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We're back for our second season of The Cacophony Sessions! In the first main episode of 2021 the whole gang looks back at the best albums of what was a very strange year for all of us. Join Dan, Dave, Alex, Tom and Martyn as we count down our top 15 records of 2020. Along the way find out what happened Dave at the end of last season, which homoerotic posters are the best ones to adorn your walls with, our best lookalikes, and just exactly how many slave masters are posing on your dollar. All with our normal sweary brand of tangential chaos. Oh, and Al explains why he is a Corpsegrinder.

A little later than we first thought, our top ten was based on a shortlist of three albums per guest, all scored out of ten. On the podcast we run down through our rankings and go over some of the honourable mentions in what was actually a very good year for music. There's everything here from hip-hop to soul to punk.

Let us know what you think of our picks, and if, heaven forbid, we missed any please let Dan know on Twitter @GoldenEPump.

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As you know if you've listened to us for more than four minutes,  Dan is a huge Prince fan.  This has been a long time coming, so along with Dave and Martyn we've recruited Arthur of the wonderful Music Snobs podcast to help as we discuss our favourite side-projects, and main albums and what we'd like to see in the future from the mythical Paisley Park vault.

Whether you're a True Funk Soldier or if you know [two thousand] zero, zero about Prince, we promise there's something here for you amongst the recommendations we give you in this podcast. This all-encompassing discussion delves into various eras and aims to explain some of the subtext surrounding His Royal Badness for the unfamiliar. Let's get Purple!

Oh, and I wonder if Arthur has brought his undeniable banger and favourite year in music to the chat. Them's the rules after all...

Our blog is now live! Stay tuned for a lot more, coming soon.

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All music snippets performed by DJ Funktapuss, Longships and Danny W & The Dope.

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Welcome to Episode Eight, where we finish running down our dream festival line-up, covering hip-hop and miscellaneous choices and all of our favourite acts from history.

Dan, Alex, Martyn, Dave and Tom assembled to continue the episode, but not everyone made it to the end of the festival. Typical. A few technical issues and the longest episode ever mean that this is a few days later than anticipated. Originally pegged as our Christmas special, the festive trimmings are kept to the end of the conversation so it doesn't feel too out of season. Well apart from our own Christmas song, of course.

So please listen to this, the last episode of The Cacophony Sessions in 2020, as we find out just how Al gets revenge f you cross him, the unsexiest song of all time and the travel safety concerns of Dolly Parton.

Thanks for listening in 2020. We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our Records of the Year. From everyone at TCSP, we hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, and let's get ready for a better 2021.

With music from Martyn Ley, DJ Funktapuss, Danny W & The Dope and Tom Fry.

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You know what we really miss? Festivals and live music. Fuck you 2020. This episode of The Cacophony Sessions sets up the stage for our own dream festival as  Dan asks Martyn, Al, Dave and Tom to help him build a line-up for the ages.

Stay tuned for a steaming dump of hot content before Christmas, Funkateers, but in the meantime please enjoy this - the first part of our largest and most expansive episode yet as we find out Tom's ulterior motive for inviting you to see Sigur Ros with him; Martyn enjoys himself a bit too much talking about Leftfield and Dave tells us what he really thinks about Bruno Mars.

This is just part one, as the conversation spans five stages and two days so this was quite the recording session! On the agenda for Episode 7A is the currently active bands for our fantasy rock, pop and dance stages. 7B will be discussing hip-hop, miscellaneous acts and our favourite acts of yesteryear. Oh and we might have something Christmassy coming for you as well in amongst all of that!

All music courtesy of Martyn Ley, DJ Funktapuss and Danny W & The Dope.

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We were going to post a Halloween episode of The Cacophony Sessions  but as this is coming to you in November on this episode instead we run down the biggest selling album of all time, track by track. We are of course talking about Michael Jackson's Thriller and all of its seven singles and two album tracks.

Regulars Martyn, Alex, Dave and Tom are here alongside host Dan for a full breakdown of the album, as well as discussions about our favourite Michael Jackson songs. Although certain aspects of his personal life are covered, it is important to note that this episode does its best to keep on track to discussion of the music, as we all know there is a lot of controversy surrounding this particular subject.

Also covered are some of our favourite horror-themed tracks, the late, great Eddie Van Halen, and our usual chatter. Also, if your name is Paul McCartney, you might want to sit this one out.

All incidental music featured courtesy of Danny W & The Dope, Longships and DJ Funktapuss.

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In a special bonus episode of The Cacophony Sessions, Dan, Martyn and Dave chat with legendary Plymouth-based DJ Aldo Vanucci all about our favourite soul records of all time. We cover a lot of the greats - Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield to name but a few. Don't worry, we still find time to divert the talk train away from the station, as per usual.

We would like to thank Aldo for his time in chatting with us and we hope you all enjoy what is ultimately a more condense version of our usual conversational shenanigans. If you like soul music, this one's for you!

Music courtesy of Martyn Ley.

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