Episode #23 - Rock by Numbers
In the good old days, when we didn’t know very much and were happy for it, we had to rely on old fashioned methods of gaining knowledge. ‘Internet’ wasn’t even a word and if you were a rock fan then you were pretty much reliant on either Sounds, Kerrang! or your best mate’s older brother to learn what was hot and what was not.
Episode #21 - 1971
Let’s be honest. Early Seventies rock was really fucking weird. Like, weapons-grade weird. Sometimes that weirdness was good, and sometimes that weirdness was, well … really fucking weird. To the point where you just had to have smoked a lot of pot to be reading the same book, never mind be on the same page.
Episode #20 - The Rock Goddess Homework
Occasionally, the boys get to sit down for an hour and chat to a special guest - and when they do they challenge that guest to choose three albums to review in a future episode: three albums released between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1995, none of which have featured on the show already. And it was no different when Rock Goddess dropped in for a chat.
Episode #19 - Siblings
Now, we all know that by and large, when you’re a kid, siblings are a total pain in the arse. And it doesn’t matter which sibling you are, either - older, younger or middle, it’s all the same. in this episode of the pod, the boys manage to find three rare creatures indeed: three sets of siblings who got on so well as kids that they decided to form a band together and spend even more time in each other’s company. How mad is that?
Episode #15 - Sheer Art Attack
We’ve all been there. Loitering in the record shop, pretending to be browsing whilst gawping at the cover to the Scorpions’ Lovedrive and nursing a boner. It’s an unwritten rites of passage for male rock fans of a certain age (and in fact, the Scorpions were serial purveyors of controversial album covers in the late 70s and early 80s - as evidenced by the original album art for both Animal Magnetism and Virgin Killer).