From the TTMF vaults comes this episode recorded in 2023.

Intended as the first pod of a subsequently aborted Foo Fighters side-series, it find podcast co-host Stephen and his son Luke critiquing the band’s eponymously named 1995 debut album, and ranking the singles from it:

00:00 Prologue

00:48 Introduction

01:34 Tale of the Tape - Foo Fighters (1995)

04:22 Foo Fighters album TV promo

04:52 Exhausted discussion

09:12 This is a Call discussion

13:44 I’ll Stick Around discussion

16:50 For all the Cows discussion

19:39 Big Me discussion

23:42 Luke’s drumming demo and discussion

26:13 Critical reception

27:24 Critiquing and ranking the album

34:12 End credits

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Take someone who’s never listened to a Rolling Stones studio album. Another who only started listening to their albums in the last few years. Throw them together to listen to The Stones’ most highly regarded album - Exile on Main Street (1972), and find out what they think 🤔

Exile is a double album 💿 💿 Podcasts hosts Stephen & Paul believe it plays better as a single 💿

Join them as they curate the under 50 minute, single vinyl, TTMF Supercut of it ⏱️

The guys also find time to share some Stones facts, sales info, play archive interview clips, and reminisce about seeing the band live in 1999.

It’s time to get your “Rocks Off”. It’s time for Trimming The Musical Fat ▶️

00:00 Prologue

00:18 Titles

00:38 Introduction

01:49 General music catch-up

07:19 Level of fandom - Rolling Stones

10:10 Mick Jagger talking about recording the album

10:57 Tale of the Tape - Exile on Main Street

12:38 Album sales info and critical reception

13:56 Top 5 selling Rolling Stones albums

16:19 Exile reissue TV promo

16:49 Trim the Talk

19:26 Discussing seeing the band live

21:10 Critiquing the album

25:25 Keith Richards picks his favourite song from Exile

26:14 Critiquing the album artwork

27:29 Trim the Album (Pt.1)

39:45 Top 5 selling Rolling Stones singles

40:37 Trim the Album (Pt.2)

44:36 Joke of the Pod

46:01 Revealing the songs that no one picked

46:46 Mick Jagger interview (Berlin, 1973)

47:47 Trim the Album (Pt.3)

54:31 The Top 10 selling albums of 1972

55:20 Revealing the Exile TTMF Supercut and ratings

56:46 News stories from 1972

57:53 The Final Question

61:33 Farewell

62:56 End

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This will knock you off your feet! 👣

We’re back for another episode of Trimming The Musical Fat 🎧 ✂️

Hosts Paul, Stephen and regular guest Davie Melon, take on another classic double album to ‘improve it’ by reducing its runtime to less than 50-minutes 🕰️

And what a task they have. The album in question is Stevie Wonder’s Grammy winning, multi-million selling - Songs in the Key of Life (1976). Home to classics like As, Sir Duke, I Wish and Isn’t She Lovely 👶

That’s 21 songs and a 205 minute run-time (double album and bonus EP) 💿 💿 💿

Which tracks will make the TTMF Supercut? Listen now to find out 👂

Also, we find time to critique the album, share SITKOL facts, discuss seeing Stevie live, look at his sales figures, and revisit 1976 (news stories, popular songs & movies) 🎵 📰 🎥

Isn’t it lovely ☺️ Hit play 🟢 It’s time for Trimming The Musical Fat!

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** 03/09/2024 - Hi. After being down for most of this year, we are making this episode available again. Enjoy **

What songs will we pick for the TTMF Supercut of the album? Is the song Innuendo better than Bohemian Rhapsody? Who picked Delilah? Did the album have sound problems on initial release? What song makes Paul Murphy think of a ‘mid-life crisis’? Which song does Stephen want to cut 2 minutes off? What’s the favourite Innuendo song from Queen social media sites? Find out by now by listening! Enjoy!

It’s the penultimate episode of our Bruce Springsteen side-series as we take a look at The Boss’s albums from 1975 to 1987 to create the ultimate under 50-minute Bruce singles collection from that period.

How do you follow the biggest album of your career? You go against the grain and record an album almost solely by yourself focussing on relationship struggles. That album is ‘Tunnel of Love’ (1987), which features the singles ‘Brilliant Disguise’ & ‘Tougher Than The Rest’.

Joining us sailing down the tunnel is regular guest Davie Melon. And, travelling all the way from the US to join us, is Bruce super-fan and award winning writer Renee James*. Interesting fact: Renee got to meet Bruce in 1978!

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* Renée A. James

As a versatile and award-winning writer (PA Press Association), her columns and articles have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Morning Call, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hartford Courant, Jewish World Review, The Women’s Quarterly, and The Huffington Post.

She built a diversified career around communications, in positions that encompassed writing and marketing through print, broadcast and digital media. Prior to her retirement, she served as Marketing Director for The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the oldest Bach Choir in America. 

She spent many years in publishing, where she launched new marketing programs and communication projects for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including MSN, Walmart, Hilton, Hallmark, Nissan, Anheuser-Busch, Merck, Mead Johnson, Nestle and many others, managing the production of newsletters, social media content, e-newsletters, videos, infographics, websites, and books and magazines.  

She distinctly remembers hearing "Saint in the City" for the first time in 1976, and has listened to and enjoyed Bruce Springsteen's music ever since. 

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