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Word Podcast 350 - do we still need these Greatest Album lists?
We look at Rolling Stone's new Best 500 Albums update and think ... where's the 80s? Where's the British stuff? Where's the jazz, country, dance musi…
6 years ago
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Old pal Owen Parker on Street Life, Message In A Bottle, Superstition and other recordings that accelerate and the nightmarish complexity of playing …
6 years ago
Word Podcast 349 - famous records whose timing speeds up
Old pal Owen Parker on Street Life, Message In A Bottle, Superstition and other recordings that accelerate and the nightmarish complexity of playing …
6 years ago
Word Podcast 348 - David Hepworth book launch Crowdcast
Mark Ellen talks to David Hepworth about his new book "Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There" which describes how British imitations came out from under…
6 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns
In which we rope in a real musician – aka our producer Magic Alex – to discover why bands always play their big hits too fast (‘are you a dragger or …
6 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 347 - ‘Emma Peel’, ‘Sandie Shaw’ and other puns we missed
In which we rope in a real musician – aka our producer Magic Alex – to discover why bands always play their big hits too fast (‘are you a dragger or …
6 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
In which we dig out a Smash Hits from ‘79 (entirely written by D Hepworth), wonder if Ian Brown’s gone stir crazy, watch it kick off between Dylan an…
6 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 346 - when punk rock stars are pensioners
In which we dig out a Smash Hits from ‘79 (entirely written by D Hepworth), wonder if Ian Brown’s gone stir crazy, watch it kick off between Dylan an…
6 years, 1 month ago
Word Podcast 345 - Justin Quirk on glam metal
Author Justin Quirk on ‘the direct link between Kiss and Trump’. Writer and highly entertaining metal connoisseur Justin Quirk – the man behind Nothi…
6 years, 1 month ago
Born To Run's 45th birthday starts here
In which we're joined by our producer Magic Alex for a scenic tour of 'Landfill Indie' ("the Libertines were our Beatles!"), check the musicians ince…
6 years, 1 month ago