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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.

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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…

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Episode 24. We took a week off last week, so it’s been a while and we have a lot to talk about – and we deliver the longest (and possibly the most entertaining) episode yet.

Jeff goes proper old, old school for his first track – a quick, deeeep rendering of a true standard – but Richy only goes back a single decade for a concise slice of Brit-pop-mod-punk.

We revisit the Randomizer result that threw us a curveball last show – the tricky “Live Track”. Jeff chooses an absolute bona-fide ska classic, one of the very few live Number Ones. Richy goes for a bang up-to-date number from a Radio 1 session, by one of his current faves.

Then it’s back to new numbers with some anthemic Irish rock courtesy of Jeff and a piece of piano-led, 80’s post-punk influenced alt-rock from Richy (courtesy of Paul ‘Geezer’ Flower).

Richy reports back from the only gig of the year so far (a very slow start to 2015) and among other things we discuss: naughty band names, cancelled tours and excursions, Phil Collins, Jeff’s upcoming big Eurovision night out

We somehow manage to play some more obscure African guitar music, and end up spending waaay too much time discussing the bloody Black Eyed Peas (and Jeff gets far too excited!)

We had a great time recording this show, thanks for listening, hope you enjoy ot.

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Episode 23 and it’s a much longer show this time. Despite neither of us having done much over the last couple of weeks (other than Jeff’s excellent, sellout, Vinyl Frontier Album Championship) we find quite a lot to talk about.

Jeff chooses a favourite album track from his college dorm days and Richy surprises with a not-like-him-at-all, bongo-heavy, pre-house-music classic, and then reverts to type, squeezing in a goth-tinged post-punk gem.

The Randomizer gives us some food for thought and then has us going all ‘baggy’, which gets Richy reminiscing about one of the worst weekends of his life.

New tracks from an unknown (at the moment) balladeer of the pastoral-folk variety and a great electronic-folk/Americana track, played as a preview to gig later in the year.

Some bad news from the dance music scene leads Richy to remember a criminally ignored music-related film, Jeff introduces us to a French singer, club-owner, artist’s muse and wartime collaborator, we discuss whether the Pixies are any good and the merits of The Beach Boys. Status Quo get a mention as does Ian Brown’s recent appearance in court (but only briefly!), and Jeff looks forward to meeting the legend that is Tony Blackburn!!

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Episode 22 and we’re easing ourselves back into the swing of things with a short-but-sweet selection of “Easy Listening” and “Dad Rock”!

Jeff chooses a great, unsung piece of Folk Rock from the early 70’s that has a great story attached to it. Richy plays a forgotten 80’s number by a band who would mutate into something far more successful 10 years later.

The Randomizer lets us get all sentimental but throws up a bit of a dilemma for Richy.

The new tracks are much more “to form” with a couple of excellent electronic pieces – both of which owe a heavy debt to the past.

Not much to discuss in the way of musical highlights – always an issue in January – but despite that, as you’d expect there aren’t many awkward silences.

One imminent thing to look forward to, it’s Jeff’s “Vinyl Frontier – The Album Championship” this weekend, in which Richy – in a highly predictable move – will be singing (not literally) the praises of a Goth / not Goth masterpiece, which has little, to no hope of winning. We’ll undoubtedly report back next time!

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