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Free With This Months Issue 67 - Andrew O'Neill picks Metal Hammer's Killing Cuts
Free With This Months Issue - June 09, 2024 05:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn episode 67 we're joined by comedian, musician, author, occultist & metal historian, Andrew O'Neill to talk about Metal Hammer's Killing Cuts 3 from October 1997. The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 – Pantera - Walk (Live) 2 - Pantera - This Love (Live) 3 - Strife - Will To Die (mislab...
Free With This Months Issue 66 - Robin Ince selects Melody Maker Five Alive volumes 1-3
Free With This Months Issue - May 12, 2024 05:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn episode 66, we're joined by comedian, author, podcaster, bibliomaniac, & general "Shaman of the Curious" Robin Ince (who you may know from presenting The Infinite Monkey Cage on Radio 4 with Professor Brian Cox) to talk about Melody Maker's trifecta of Five Alive tapes from January &...
Free With This Months Issue 65 - Carl Bryan selects Kerrang Incoming - The Sounds of 2002
Free With This Months Issue - April 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn episode 65, Carl Bryan, one of Colin's other cohosts from the Shipwrecked & Comatose Red Dwarf podcast joins us again to talk about Kerrang Magazine's Incoming - The Sounds of 2002 from December 2001 The cd's full tracklisting is - 1 – American Head Charge - A Violent Reaction 2 - W...
Free With This Months Issue technical announcement.
Free With This Months Issue - April 05, 2024 20:00 - 39 seconds ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHi everyone, We're currently in the process of changing our hosting company. It should all transfer across smoothly with no action needed by our subscribers, but just in case it doesn't, our next episode is due on Sunday 14th April 2024. If it doesn't appear in your feed then you may ...
Free With This Months Issue 64 - 5th Birthday spectacular! Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels select Kerrang 1998
Free With This Months Issue - March 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFree With This Months Issue is 5 years old! to celebrate we've rounded up two of our best friends Lisa Williams & Sarah Daniels to talk about a cd we've been wanting to cover since before we started the podcast, Kerrang's 1998 cd from December 1998! We've got metal legends, Ska-Punk cla...
Free With This Months Issue 63 - Bo Nicholson selects Q Best of 2007
Free With This Months Issue - February 11, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor this episode of Free With This Month's Issue we're joined by Bo Nicholson from the Movieversaries & Academy Watch podcaststo talk about Q Magazine's Q2007 cd from November 2007. The episode also features discussion abut wasted drummers, funeral songs, russian literature, and an apol...
Free With This Months Issue 62.5 - X-Cast Crossover - The X Files Songs In the Key Of X - Bonus Episode
Free With This Months Issue - January 21, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTo celebrate the We Made This podcast network's 5th birthday we're releasing a series of crossover episodes throughout the network this January. For this special bonus episode Kurt North from We Made This's X Files podcast The X-Cast joins us to talk about the 1996 compilation Songs In ...
Free With This Months Issue 62 - Alex Claridge picks Mojo - Up Yours! Punk's Not Dead
Free With This Months Issue - January 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor episode 62 Birmingham's Most Rock & Roll Chef, Alex Claridge joins us again to discuss Mojo's Up Yours! Punk's Not Dead cd from March 2003. The cd's tracklisting is - 1 - The Clash - 1977 2 - The Strokes - The Modern Age 3 - The Adverts - One Chord Wonders 4 - The Hives - Main Off...
Chart Music #73: March 4th 1993 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 07, 2024 02:59 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; do we really have to hug? And rub-a-dub? The Chart Music time sofa descends upon March of 1993, Pop-Crazed Youngsters – the Forgotten Nineties, if you will. A time where the only options available to The Kids were having their heads filled with rubb...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 4): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 06, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Sarah Bee and Al Needham hit the final stretch of this episode of TOTP with the chance to hear 20 seconds of a Xmas Number One, Bryan Ferry going through the motions, some Americans who want to weld you into a chair and Dead Madonna, then Diana Ross gets all excited at the sight of ...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 3): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 05, 2024 00:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSarah Bee, Simon Price and Al Needham end up having a massively deep dive on Suede, before being whipped over to Hawaii to watch the Lower-Case Canadian sit on a box for a bit. Oh, and Runrig! Video Playlist | Subscribe | Facebook | Twitter | The Chart Music Wiki | Patreon Get your tickets for...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 2): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 04, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Sarah Bee and Al Needham begin their slog through an early-Nineties episode of The Pops with an examination of the changes Stanley Appell wrought upon our fave Thursday Evening Pop Treat. Then we’re immediately assailed by the sight of someone grabbing one of Right Said Fred’s arse ...
Chart Music #73 (Pt 1): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - January 03, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratings#73 (Pt 1): 4.3.93 – Frank Bald Sarah Bee, Simon Price and Al Needham gird their loins for a plunge into a TOTP from the early Nineties, but before all that there’s a comprehensive leaf through that week’s NME. a heartrending discussion about the misery of gym knickers and hair loss, and a mass...
Free With This Months Issue 61 - Leah Fitzsimmons picks Mojo best of 2023
Free With This Months Issue - December 17, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnd just like that another year is over, so our old friend Leah Fitzsimmons joins us to talk about Mojo Magazine's Best of 2023 cd! The tracklisting is - 1 - Young Fathers - Drum 2 - The Tubs - Round The Bend 3 - The Coral - Oceans Apart 4 - Anohni & The Johnsons - Scapegoat 5 - Lankum...
Free With This Months Issue 60 - Simon Price picks Why Cant I Be You (Mojo Presents A Tribute To The Cure)
Free With This Months Issue - November 12, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor episode 60 it's a special episode on the actual greatest band in the universe (The Cure, obviously), to celebrate our guest's new book, Curepedia - An A-Z Of The Cure which is out now! This month music journalist, author, DJ, & podcaster Simon Price joins us to talk about Mojo Magaz...
Free With This Months Issue 59 - Steven from Kerrang Back Issues selects Kerrang Supersonic Vol 2
Free With This Months Issue - October 22, 2023 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSteven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again for the second of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume two from exactly 27 years ago. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Ash - Hulk Hogan's Bubble Bath (Live) 2...
Free With This Months Issue 58 - Steven from Kerrang Back Issues selects Kerrang Supersonic volume 1
Free With This Months Issue - October 15, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs an extra special treat this month Steven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us for the first of two weekly episodes to talk about Kerrang's Supersonic tapes from October 1996. This week it's Supersonic Volume one from exactly 27 years ago. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Kerbdog -...
Free With This Months Issue 57 - Caroline Cawley (from Church Of The Cosmic Skull & Dystopian Future Movies) selects Vox Class of 96
Free With This Months Issue - September 10, 2023 05:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor episode 57 we're joined by Caroline Cawley who's the singer and guitarist for Dystopian Future Movies (who listeners to our other podcast We Dig Music will be very familiar with as they've been voted our song of the year for both 2022 & 2022, a feat only equalled by The Cure!) She's...
Chart Music #72: October 3rd 1985 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 25, 2023 23:01 - 6 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; so how do you set fire to a trophy? Like a man in a cage, we find ourselves trapped in the mid-Eighties, imprisoned in a lurid enclosure of neon and rolled sleeves and appalling Number Ones, with Gary Davies – fresh from a birthday party in a garage...
#72 (Pt 4): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 24, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham hit the final stretch of this episode of TOTP, and pick through the ‘delights’ of the Top Ten. It’s a meaty fist in the air for Billy Idol, King of the Quincy Punks, before being subjected to a cult indoctrination video. We savour Midge Ure’s ...
#72 (Pt 3): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 23, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham plunge ever-onwards into a post-Live Aid episode of The Pops, and it turns out that 1985 is SKILL – well, it is when Cameo are slinking about on TOTP stage. Then we’re reminded of the dark times when John Parr pitches up to do a film advert. B...
#72 (Pt 2): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 22, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham set about this episode of TOTP with the usual gleeful abandon, asking themselves; what did Paul Jordan actually do to get nobbed off from Radio 1 in less than a year? And why does Gary Davies look like he’s been thrown into a tub of Bisto? Col...
#72 (Pt 1): 3.10.85 – Rod Vicious
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - August 21, 2023 23:01 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSimon Price, Rock Expert David Stubbs and Al Needham prepare for a punishing slog through a post-Live Aid episode of The Pops – but first, a good hard shill of their new books, which are out NOW/SOON. We leaf through that week’s NME, discuss a Norwegian newspaper article from the year 2000, and,...
Free With This Months Issue 56 - Neil Kulkarni selects Uncut 4ad
Free With This Months Issue - August 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFor episode 56 we're joined by music journalist, musician, & podcaster Neil Kulkarni, who's written for Melody Maker, DJ mag, Uncut, Kerrang, Metal Hammer, Plan B, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Terrorizer & The Quietus, and is a regular member of the mighty Chart Music podcast team. The CD...
Free With This Months Issue 55 - Steven from Kerrang Back Issues selects Rare because Kerrang Cares
Free With This Months Issue - July 09, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSteven from Kerrang Back Issues joins us again to talk about Rare (Because Kerrang! Cares) from October 1995. The tape's full tracklisting is - 1 –Reef - Repulsive 2 - Skyscraper - Lovesick 3 - Machine Head - Hard Times 4 - Fear Factory - Your Mistake 5 - Carcass - Generation Hexed (Ba...
#71: March 19th 1981 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 25, 2023 23:01 - 7 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe latest episode of the podcast which asks; Whoops Scotties, Tasty Tarts Foster Grants or Allied For Carpets For You? Oh yes – it’s back to the Eighventies we go, Pop-Crazed Youngsters, to a year where everyone was loaded into a cannon and fired into the dress-up box, or so we’re led to belie...
#71 (Pt 4): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 24, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham finally stumble upon the real 1981 – Strange The Clock, and the New Street Station Dolls – while Al deals with an industrial dispute over Toyah by locking Neil and Taylor out and getting some robots in. And we finally get to grips with the most malign ...
#71 (Pt 3): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 23, 2023 23:01 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham plough on through this episode from the tail-end of the Eighventies, stopping for a deep, deep, deep dive on the post-Moon Who. Legs & Co say farewell to Pauline by sitting about under a giant Scotch egg, the Paint Pot comes back for an encore, and Buc...
#71 (Pt 2): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 22, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham commence their odyssey into the March 19th 1981 episode, and are horrified to discover that the Top Of The Pops Orchestra are still knocking about, and The Kids – who are supposed to be dressed up as nouveaux dandies – are wearing visors and doing the ...
#71 (Pt 1): 19.3.81 – Shaky Of The Dorm
Chart Music: the Top Of The Pops Podcast - June 21, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNeil Kulkarni, Taylor Parkes and Al Needham prepare the stage for a late-Eighventies episode of The Pops – but first, it’s a flick through that week’s NME, Rod Hull and Emu pay tribute to Rolls-Royce, Neil speaks of his brush with the local Masonic Lodge (and fails to win the Tombola), Al shares...