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Episode 11 and we welcome our second guest to the studio* – Richy’s good friend “Steve from Bristol”.

Another great selection of music – classic pop, a little bit of rockabilly, indie rock and several flavours of electronica – downbeat, bedroom, acid/minimal and commercial – and we enjoy a new festival-themed twist on the Randomizer that introduces us to a couple of great new bands.

Richy reports back from his bargain Hyde Park metal excursion, screws up a bit (but isn’t really bothered), experiences one of the major problems with Spotify and underwhelms with another US-alt-rock choice.

Jeff tells us about a chart milestone, mercilessly plugs the upcoming Led Zep 4 Vinyl Frontier and stays true-to-form, throwing in another great Depeche-mode influenced, bedroom electronica artist.

Steve, depresses us with a jazz/blues (?) classic, probably offends one of the best up-and-coming (not “Arctic Monkeys wannabes”) bands and introduces Rich to yet another outstanding German acid/techno artist.

If anyone else fancies being a guest, drop us a line!!

Thanks as always for listening, we really appreciate it!!

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Episode 10… EPISODE 10!!

A epic show and a mini-milestone this week. We’re both happy to have made 10 quality episodes and (mostly) pleased with the music choices we’ve made.

We’ve played 87 tracks from loads of different genres and from all over the world, and on the whole we’ve liked what each other’s bought to the “decks”. We’ve got plans for a couple of special edition podcasts that we’ll unveil soon.

In the meantime, this week we have another mixed bag – some mainstream tracks, some decidedly not. Welsh folk. British folk. More American 70’s-influenced rock (not a Fleetwood Mac cover band, but close!), all-girl-post-punk and a banging remix of a favourite track from last weekend’s Glasto coverage.

Hear about Richy’s lucky purchase and his birthday plans for November. The Randomizer throws up a classic. We have a quick discussion about the best “Best Of…” albums and Richy tells Jeff about a ‘hidden’ function in iTunes. Plus, find out who won the Erasure vs Pet Shop Boys Vinyl Frontier battle.

Thanks as always for listening, we really appreciate it!!

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Another (possibly our most) chaotic affair, featuring our first special guest, winner of the Vinyl Frontier Singles Championship, Mr Steve Carman.

This episode’s highlights:

-Steve tells us why The Jam were his number 1 pick for the Singles Championship and then proceeds to confuse and horrify us with his choice for the Randomizer round. Strangely, he didn’t put us off having guests though, so we’ll line up a few more for future episodes.

– Jeff performs an acapella jingle for “The Randomizer”, chooses some more great electronica for his new track and discovers his “theme song”.

– Richy gets a chance to vent, chooses a couple of moody piano heavy pieces (not Richard Clayderman) and decides not to edit out some of this week’s cock ups 😉

Finally, we’ve decided not to put the tracklisting on these episode summaries anymore, you can now find them on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/headtoheadpodcasts.

Thanks as always for listening, we really appreciate it!!

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Episode 7 and it’s all gone a bit “easy listening”…

Mostly mellow this week, if you’re looking for metal you came to the wrong place! Although… stick around to the end, the Wovenhand track is quite noisy.

Jeff picks a great story song by Britain’s favourite piano-basher/music-show-host and can’t resist throwing in another dollop of bedroom electronica, while Richy goes for a beautiful piece of mid-noughties shoegaze and some fire-and-brimstone folk metal…

We decide to play a few more tracks all the way through this week, mostly on the strength of the Alexi Murdoch song – it would’ve been criminal to fade it out. 🙂

Taurus – Spirit (excerpt)
Jools Holland feat. Louise Marshall – I Went By
Engineers – Come In Out Of The Rain
Alexi Murdoch – All My Days
Billy Joel – Captain Jack
Maxwell’s Complex – Hurting Inside Out
Maxwell’s Complex – It Doesn’t Matter Two (excerpt)
Maxwell – Sumthin’ Sumthin’ (excerpt)
Wovenhand – The Refractory

There’s a lot of talk about live music, we pass judgement on the Taurus / Led Zep legal case, Richy dredges up an aberration from his collection and Jeff tells us about the Vinyl Frontier Single Championship, which Richy is “competing” in but has no possibility of winning!

Great tracklist this week, but as always, let us know what you think. We’re still after ideas for the Randomizer too (it’s Jeff’s favourite bit of the show!)

Thanks for listening, we really appreciate it!!

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All over the place again this week, some great tracks and a couple of (not so) guilty pleasures. We had a lot of fun with this one!

Voodoo swamp-blues, twee and not twee indie, classic 70s, and bang up-to-date-out-this-week goth-tinged stadium rock and several points in between.

C W Stoneking – The Love Me Or Die
Six By Seven – Brilliantly Cute
U2 – Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (excerpt)
David Soul – Don’t Give Up On Us Baby (excerpt)
Helen Reddy – I Am Woman (excerpt)
The Boy Least Likely To – I’m Glad I’m Hitched My Wagon To Your Star
The Horrors – In And Out Of Sight
The Horrors – Sheena Is A Parasite (excerpt)

All this, plus a shout-out to the guys at www.UKpodcasters.com, pub quiz nightmares, misheard lyrics, the worst music currently being used in a TV advert and Jeff plants a horrible vision in Richy’s mind.

This week’s “competition”: we’re after more subjects for The Randomizer, so post your suggestion/s on Soundcloud or Facebook. We’ll choose our favourite one and if you’re local to us you’ll win a pair of tickets to Jeff’s Electric Eighties night, May 16th in Marlow, if you’re elsewhere we’ll send you something nice 🙂

Thanks as always for listening!!

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Definitely our most diverse episode yet.

Commercial dance music from 90’s South Africa, bonkers 70’s synth from Nigeria, disappointing industrial rock, some sad folk (is there any other kind?) a stomping indie-electro-dance number and a few other oddities for good measure.

Richy realises that things have moved on A LOT over the last 20 years and Jeff gets to play a favourite synth track that definitely won’t get an airing at Electric Eighties 2 (…or will it?)

Mandoza – Nkalakatha
William Onyeabor – Good Name (excerpt)
Love Spit Love – Half A Life
Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting (excerpt)
The Revolting Cocks – Stainless Steel Providers (excerpt)
Adam Holmes – Oh My God
Liars – Vox Detuned D.E.D.
Visage – Mind Of A Toy (excerpt)

Looking at that track list now it really does look all over the place! There’s definitely some interesting stuff there and I think we managed to keep it reasonably coherent!

This week’s “competition”: we’re looking for some more subjects for The Randomizer, so post your suggestion/s as a comment on the soundwave above or on Facebook and we’ll choose our favourite. If that person is local to us you’ll win a pair of tickets to Jeff’s Electric Eighties night in Marlow, May 16th, if you’re elsewhere we’ll send you something nice 🙂

Thanks again for listening!

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Fourth episode and two very different tracks for our first choices and then – totally coincidentally – we both went for folk-infused, psych-rock Americana for track two.

There’s a couple of tracks from – what feels like – a loooong time ago, some classic reggae and an equally classic late’s 80’s dance hit.

Plus introducing two new features

– “The Randomizer” – not sure we’ve quite ironed out the concept yet but it led to two great tracks
– The Competition – win tickets for Jeff’s “Vinyl Frontier – Exodus” on April 16th (or something else if you can’t make it – details at 1hr 5mins if you want to skip straight to it!).

Plus – hear the phrase “ghetto blaster” three times – are we even allowed to say that these days..?

Tracklist:-
Bob Geldof – The Great Song Of Indifference
Puressence – This Feeling
Phosphorescent – Song For Zula
The War On Drugs – Under The Pressure
Strawberry Switchblade – Since Yesterday
Depeche Mode – A Question Of Time
Bob Marley – Exodus (excerpt)
S’Express – Theme From S’Express

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Third episode and I think we’re getting pretty good at this!

(Note to Jeff – no more songs with whistling please. Ever.)

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill
The Chameleons – Don’t Fall
The Chameleons – In Shreds (excerpt)
The Chameleons – Swamp Thing (excerpt)
Bastille – Pompeii (excerpt)
Laibach – The Whistleblowers
School Of Seven Bells – Low Times
Cosmicide – Talos’ Corpse (excerpt)
St. Etienne – Hobart Paving (excerpt)

Thanks for listening!

R.I.P. Benjamin Curtis

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Our second show, building on what we learned from recording the Pilot show.

The same format as before, but with added music – we decided we’d play some excerpts of tracks from some of the “related artists” that we end up talking about. Let us know if you think this works.

(Richy got a bit carried away with Ryan Adams…)

This weeks tracks:

Nick Heyward – My Heavy Head
Ryan Adams – La Cienega Just Smiled
Ryan Adams – New York, New York (excerpt)
Ryan Adams – New York, New York – Live piano version (excerpt)
Billy Joel – New York State Of Mind (excerpt)
Polly Scattergood – Please Don’t Touch
Daniel Avery – New Energy [Live Through It]
William Orbit – Water From A Vine Leaf (excerpt)

Thanks for listening!

Richy & Jeff

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