Episode #26 - Bring Your Daughters To The Slaughter
Dads know full well that on the school run and given a choice between the Today programme or some Def Leppard, Sheffield’s finest will always be the lesser of two evils. And so it was that the lads decided their daughters - Sian, Alice and Holly - should choose the albums they would review for Episode 26.
Episode #17 - 1981
Back in the old days, when the only way for your mummies and daddies to own the music they really loved was to go out and buy records by their favourite bands from a record shop, the album cover was an essential part of the marketing mix that sold a band and its music - at a time when mainstream radio played very little rock music, many people bought records based solely on the cover alone.
Episode 17 of the pod saw the boys get to grips with three albums with covers that were nothing if not striking. But was what occupied the 0.28 miles of groove on the 2mm-thick disc inside those covers any good?
Episode #8 - The Little Wizard
In the space of 7 years between 1976 and 1983, Ronnie James Dio recorded three classic albums with three different bands. First came Rainbow’s Rising; then, 4 years later, Heaven and Hell , the first of two he would record with Black Sabbath; and finally, in 1983, Holy Diver, from the band that bore his name. Which of the three would give the Little Wizard his highest spot in the Hall of Fame?