Episode 26 – quite a jaunty, light affair.

We start with one of Jeff’s favourite 80’s electronic numbers, from THE avant-synth-pop experi-mentalists, and we play a snippet of a reworked (hit) version featuring a true pop culture icon. Richy kicks off his ‘Swedish Indie Pop Trilogy” with a perfectly sweet 3 minute guitar pop number.

The Randomizer poses a near impossible question to answer – not quite ‘Best. Song. Ever.’ But close.. – and gives us the chance to play a couple of well known tracks by a two of the UKs biggest acts – Jeff’s favourite act and our coolest export.

New tracks this week from a French soul singer / producer duo and a champion beat boxer (although thankfully none of that nonsense on this track) set a nice mellow, dancey tone to close the show

Richy reports back from 2 gigs – one good, one a bit ‘meh’. We talk about Pharrell vs The Gayes and Kanye for Glasto (controversial? Nah) and we wonder if there’s a point to co-headline gig and double A-sides. Jeff announces the first date of his Vinyl Frontier World Tour. And since this is our “kinda-St. Patrick’s day show” we don’t play any Irish music.

Thanks as always for listening (and for reading this far, if you have… I guess you must have… Haven’t you?)

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This week’s episode was always going to be a challenge for Richy, after a day on which everything he listened to sounded awful and annoying. Luckily, Jeff was in a far better mood (as usual!).

Old tracks are a classic from a soul/pop innovator and legend (with a snippet of a more recent – and in Richy’s opinion, superior – rock cover version) and a forgotten but recently resurrected 90s indie/prog band.

The Randomizer is back and throws up some real obscurities – one of which cheers Richy up no end. (Polite notice: Richy’s track turns into two tracks, making for 8 minutes or so of challenging, dark alt-Americana).

New tracks from a German, reggae/funk/pop/dance/electronica act, courtesy of Jeff (of course) and a not-really-new-but-new-to-him bit of melancholy Grunge from Richy. We end with a crushing disappointment, an example of what an unchecked heroin addiction can do to a beautiful song.

Along the way we offend Clash fans everywhere, discuss the merits – or otherwise – of moving the charts to a Friday night (in summary: “Meh.”), Madge’s tumble at the Brits, Jeff’s pet subject of original vs cover version and lots of other, probably pointless, nonsense.

Richy mentions the Easter Egg that he hid in the description of the last episode – which is still unclaimed… Hint, hint…

Thanks as always for listening, we really do appreciate it.

Richy & Jeff

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