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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 5, 2023 7:37:28 GMT
About the only one I listen regularly to is Arsecast. I'd like to listen to more but I struggle to find things that interest me. 'Lifestyle' stuff featuring loud guys going on about their adventures in the gym is of no interest to me at all, and that's about 95% of them. I like discussion stuff and listening to people who are well versed in their subject.
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Post by tory on Jul 5, 2023 7:45:13 GMT
The Rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. It's genuinely entertaining.
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Post by riggers on Jul 5, 2023 7:54:05 GMT
People often recommend podcasts to me but I can't do them. I think it's because I like to see things, above all. I'll watch documentaries, listen to people who are sitting in front of me for ages, and actually listen to 'podcasts' that have a visual element - even if it's just the faces of the people talking (Rob Brydon's series on YT is a good example of this). But this business of plugging in to a disembodied voice or a number of voices - not for me. For me, I think it has a similar role to what radio used to have, when I used to listen to radio. Living on your own, it can be nice to hear voices and conversation, rather than just music all the time. I used to listen to 6 music a lot, but I find a lot of the presenters irritating these days and the music can be hit and miss for me.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 5, 2023 7:58:36 GMT
The Rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. It's genuinely entertaining. Might give it a go, but I find Sandbrook a bit of a bland thinker. Better when he sticks to politics (I did like his book on 50s Britain to be fair), but he has nothing interesting at all to say about cultural history, other than to parade his dreary middlebrow 'populist' opinions (Ooo...Lloyd Weber is popular across the world, we should celebrate him!).
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jul 5, 2023 8:05:14 GMT
People often recommend podcasts to me but I can't do them. I think it's because I like to see things, above all. I'll watch documentaries, listen to people who are sitting in front of me for ages, and actually listen to 'podcasts' that have a visual element - even if it's just the faces of the people talking (Rob Brydon's series on YT is a good example of this). But this business of plugging in to a disembodied voice or a number of voices - not for me. For me, I think it has a similar role to what radio used to have, when I used to listen to radio. Living on your own, it can be nice to hear voices and conversation, rather than just music all the time. I used to listen to 6 music a lot, but I find a lot of the presenters irritating these days and the music can be hit and miss for me. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And I listen to 6 Music a lot, especially in the evenings. Maybe it's the 'timetabled' nature of radio broadcasts I like.
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Post by riggers on Jul 5, 2023 8:07:19 GMT
Just lay in bed, after two relaxing days off (about to go in for a sleep in shift 😕) and listening to three Geordie blokes talking enthusiastically and knowledgeably about 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' on a podcast called 'All The Right Movies'.
They also tackle, amongst others, Casino, Reservoir Dogs, Boogie Nights, American Werewolf in London..etc..so will probably be listening to more of these.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 5, 2023 8:09:09 GMT
Just lay in bed, after two relaxing days off (about to go in for a sleep in shift 😕) and listening to three Geordie blokes talking enthusiastically and knowledgeably about 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' on a podcast called 'All The Right Movies'. They also tackle, amongst others, Casino, Reservoir Dogs, Boogie Nights, American Werewolf in London..etc..so will probably be listening to more of these. Their choices seem a bit 'blokeish'.
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Post by riggers on Jul 5, 2023 8:12:39 GMT
Well yeah. They also do all the Star Wars films, which I won't be listening to, but so far it has the qualities I like in a pod.
Funny, unpretentious, knowledgeable, good sound balance etc..
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Post by riggers on Jul 5, 2023 8:14:16 GMT
But also, just to reiterate a point from my initial post, I can't stress enough just how good "Chart Music" is. It's way out in front for me.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 5, 2023 8:32:31 GMT
I'll give it a go -cheers! (if I can find it on youtube, I don't subscribe to Amazon)
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Post by riggers on Jul 5, 2023 8:41:15 GMT
There's not any full episodes on YouTube, although there's an excerpt of Neil Kulkarni and Simon Price on Oasis, which gives you an idea ..
But if you just Google 'Chart Music Podcast' there are various platforms that carry it. (I get it, and all the others on Spotify) I'd post a link but I'm on my phone and a bit short of time.
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Post by riggers on Jul 6, 2023 17:16:20 GMT
I know I'm really plugging this, but if these clips don't sell it, nothing will..
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2023 18:12:03 GMT
The Rest is History with Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. It's genuinely entertaining. Spiderman?
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Post by riggers on Jan 23, 2024 14:23:55 GMT
Neil Kulkarni, ex Melody Maker journalist and contributor to the Chart Music podcast died suddenly yesterday.
It's really hit me, so I felt compelled to stick this here. Al Needham, the creator and host of the podcast posted this on the show's Patreon page.
There is so much to say about Neil, who died yesterday, and the things you need to hear are going to be said by the people who knew him and worked with him and loved him over his thirty year career as a writer for Melody Maker, Uncut, Spin, Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, Wire, The Quietus, and any other magazine who were in need of one of the greatest music writers of his generation, because that’s what he was. All I can do is talk about him from the standpoint of someone who worked with him over Skype, and met him only twice. But that doesn’t matter, because I’ve been blessed to have done that for the past seven years.
I started Chart Music seven years ago for two reasons; firstly because my options as a magazine writer had completely dried up and I was casting around to do something – anything – worthwhile and interesting, but mainly because I’d run into a group of people who used to write for Melody Maker in the late Eighties and Nineties on the When Saturday Comes forum, who I went on to meet at a forum meet-up, and I wanted to know them better –and I couldn’t believe my luck when they wanted to get involved. I’d met almost all of them before – in fact, I floated the idea in a pub in London at a drink-up for Taylor’s birthday – but at the time Neil was a Facebook mate; that bloke who worked on a proper magazine writing proper articles who I was a bit in awe of, who knew more about Pop music and could write about it better than I ever could, especially when it came to hip-hop (Not only that, but he was doing it all from his beloved Coventry, refusing to move down to London like everyone else did. Do you have any idea how good you had to be to do that?).
Neil made his debut in Chart Music #4, and the moment he started talking about how his Mam could detect who was on drugs on Top Of The Pops and how his sister used to play a game called Disco Lights which involved her switching the lights on and off and then screaming at him, I immediately wanted to attach a microphone to him and force him to talk about Pop music forever. Neil got the point of Chart Music straight away, and it was an absolute joy to record an episode with him. He was a Pop evangelist, he knew his shit backwards, he never forgot he was a fan before he became a critic, he had zero tolerance for catshit, and refused to believe that the age of Pop has passed, constantly championing the new and railing against the English Rock Defence League. By the time he said that he wouldn’t accept a sandwich from Tears For Fears, Chart Music effectively ceased being a hobby and became a full-on Mission To Explain.
So I’m sitting here, at 4am, listening to The Specials and T Rex, twisting myself into knots about how to pass this appalling news on to you, and refusing to believe that I’ll never hear Neil’s laugh again. I don’t like making statements on behalf of the rest of Chart Music, but I know they won’t mind me saying: fucking hell, Neil, we love you, mate. And we’ve been so fortunate to have had you in our lives.
- Al
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 23, 2024 16:28:38 GMT
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