IN FIVE Edward Thomas

Do we have it in us?

How dumb would it be if we ended up picking 2 songs from Voyage?

Portishead? Really?!

At least 2 of these will be addressed on tonight's sweded simulcast...

I'm privileged to be joined, once more, by Rob & Andy (from the estimable Hits 21 Podcast) and effrontery artiste Josh ('Jacques n' Their Box'), as we split the ABBA Gold from the abbatoir in a Voyage to find the middle ground on Sweden's perpetual palindromic pop p...henomenon.


The Hits 21 Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mcG2eHx146WWVzAZBHAqF

Jacques (aka Josh aka Jacques) on Bandcamp: https://jesuiselation.bandcamp.com/

My "Favourite Albums" challenge list on RYM: ⁠https://rateyourmusic.com/list/RhymeDragWithDrag/shall-i-compare-thee-approaching-my-favourite-albums/

What the hell are we doing here?

Do you understand THEIR ripcord, Thom? Did you ever consider that?

What Radiohead song sounds like it was written by a
schoolboy?

A full third of these will be addressed here, tonight, as “myself” is joined by Politico, Podcaster & Pal Jake to talk about Muse, U2, Dolly Parton and that band that did the sad track from the Romeo & Juliet soundtrack.


Did I mention that we talk about Muse?

 

Here us waffle about relegation tier Pixar movies here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rebel-chums/episodes/Rebel-Chums-2-18--Cars-3-e4i75n/a-aiemob

And check out my favourite albums “challenge” list here: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/RhymeDragWithDrag/shall-i-compare-thee-approaching-my-favourite-albums/

APPLES AND PEARS AND VARIOUS OTHER FRUIT.

Podcast veteran and Hits 21 co-host Lizzy & I celebrate
the turn of a new year (and the release of a new album) by recounting the ballad of "Seymour" from Barrett-echoing bargain bin baggy, through “Middle Class” Britpop
and eclectic proto-Hail to the Thief noise pop to a broken speaker on Mars.

What album proved so controversial it made one of the hosts watch a racist episode of Star Trek? And that one with the horny virus (only if you’re a woman – the men just sweat a bit).

How many new ways can be found to say The Great
Escape is underwhelming?

How would Lizzy deal with the possibility of alien
contact?

Did that pigtail woman from Moonraker have braces or not?

At least 75% of these inquiries will be answered with
approx. 60% certainty in this Westwastic edition of In Five.

 

LINKSES:

The Hits21 Podcast ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7mcG2eHx146WWVzAZBHAqF⁠


My RYM Fave Album Challenge Thingum https://rateyourmusic.com/list/RhymeDragWithDrag/shall-i-compare-thee-approaching-my-favourite-albums/

‘Why can’t Stevie Wonder tie his own shoelaces?’

‘Because of a clause in a crippling Motown recording contract signed when he was a child’

Andy from Hits21 joins me to cherish the prestige popcraft of Stevie Wonder … and, of course, to flog one of music criticism’s oldest, deadest horses by noticing how comparatively crap his 80s stuff is (Hotter than July is smashin’, though).

What is the opening chord to ‘As’?

How do you pronounce moog?

Why does no one pick Superstition?

Has mint ever been sexy in any context?

A good… half to a third of these will ALL be answered!



CHECK THESE OUT:

Take an entertaining, insightful trawl through
the 21st century public’s conception of pop greatness with the Hits21 Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7mcG2eHx146WWVzAZBHAqF

And, as this episode took me so goddamn long to
edit – he’s only got another podcast now about… well… NOW (‘that’s what I call music!’) https://t.co/HE37dQnkVB

As Eddie Fisher once sang: 'Kendrick Lamar / to me he was so wonderful...'



I'm joined once again by multimedia music polymath Rob for a pretty DAMN. deep discussion skirting BLM, role models, the Confession vs Sin ratio and how Drake is, like, really boring.



What track do we happen to agree contains Lamar's worst impulses? Can anyone else match his 5 album run? Is she saying 'go be the change' or 'ghoul beef change'?



ALL SHALL BE REVEALED (subjectively, inconclusively, tentatively) in this epoch's IN FIVE!



(Special thanks to Rob for editing this episode! Honestly, all I did this time was listen to some hip hop and mutter near a USB mic.)



Check out the Hits21 podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mcG2eHx146WWVzAZBHAqF



And, if you're at all power pop-inclined, Rob's remastered EP is GREAT: https://colourfulsevens.bandcamp.com/album/my-thoughts-only-have-more-threads-granola-edit

ROLL UP, ONE AND ALL...

The show re-emerges in triumphant [?] fashion with a feature length rabbit hole plumbing Juggalos, Faygo-tasting, literary theory, STDs, police profiling... and music, as we deep dive into the defiant output of hip hop's outsider whipping boys, the INSANE CLOWN POSSE.

So are we down with the clown? Or down with the clap? Or down and out in Paris and London?

Are they gross? or Grossly misunderstood? Or Grosse Pointe Blank starring John Cusack?

Find out all of this, darkly, in this ... quarter's [?] IN FIVE.



LINKSIES:

Follow Jacques 'n' Their Box on Facebook:

www.facebook.com/jacketlebox



Presave the upcoming album, 'wickedness' at:

distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jacquesntheirbox/wickedness


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Oh, and that "Timbaland" bullshit the host did in lockdown (remember House Party?):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGpKHviu4fY