Irreverent and occasionally profound music chat from 2 middle-aged English chaps who happen to be almost lifelong friends.
Each episode, they dissect and reflect on an album from Apple Music's Top 100 Albums list and contrast this with the album occupying the same berth in Rolling Stone Magazine's equivalent list. For those who don't know, Apple's list is famous for it's unsentimental and future-forward stance while RS is more representative of the old guard. Sometimes the juxtaposition is hilarious, sometimes jarring, but always interesting.
While paying scant attention to facts and evidence, our heroes draw on a lifetime's love of music, both as fans and sometime musicians themselves, to draw some fresh conclusions and observations. All served with a hefty dollop of whimsy, a side serving of offbeat humour and a pinch of surreality.
Apple Music Top 100: https://100best.music.apple.com/us
Rolling Stone Top 100: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-band-music-from-big-pink-2-1063133/
Add our playlist of selections from each episode here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2uFOcOfxIij1TWmzahH5Vl?si=49a44cc1cc404a15
Irreverent and occasionally profound music chat from 2 middle-aged English chaps who happen to be almost lifelong friends.
Each episode, they dissect and reflect on an album from Apple Music's Top 100 Albums list and contrast this with the album occupying the same berth in Rolling Stone Magazine's equivalent list. For those who don't know, Apple's list is famous for it's unsentimental and future-forward stance while RS is more representative of the old guard. Sometimes the juxtaposition is hilarious, sometimes jarring, but always interesting.
While paying scant attention to facts and evidence, our heroes draw on a lifetime's love of music, both as fans and sometime musicians themselves, to draw some fresh conclusions and observations. All served with a hefty dollop of whimsy, a side serving of offbeat humour and a pinch of surreality.
Apple Music Top 100: https://100best.music.apple.com/us
Rolling Stone Top 100: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-band-music-from-big-pink-2-1063133/
Add our playlist of selections from each episode here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2uFOcOfxIij1TWmzahH5Vl?si=49a44cc1cc404a15
In at no 98 on the Apple Best Albums Of All Time Forever And Ever Amen list is a certain Travis Scott with his 2018 record "Astroworld".
Inspired by a local fairground, the contents present a murky and curiously introspective world belying the sunny Texas climes from whence he hails.
In neighbouring Louisiana, some 20 years previously, Lucinda Williams was cooking up some deceptively poetic country rock for her album "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" which did so well it ended up at no 98 in Rolling Stone's list. Well done both of you!
Now our middle-aged heroes attempt once more to decipher what these two artists were trying to achieve with these records that showcase very different sides of American life.