What A Train Rec

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Bryce Halliday and Jim Fishwick get together every couple of weeks to humbly recommend a bunch of songs you might enjoy on your train commute. It's a train rec, but you can listen to them wherever really. Every episode contains links in the description to streaming playlists of the songs talked about.

Episodes

  1. Obligatory Christmas Special

    21/12/2017

    Obligatory Christmas Special

    It's Christmas time! We 100% reneged on our promise to bring you more episodes! Hopefully we can make up for it with this playlist. Most Christmas music is terrible and you hear it every year, here is a playlist of tunes you might actually really enjoy making the family listen to. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Joseph Spence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_jRAJZ9_y0 Joy To The World - Sufjan Stevens Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects - Sharon Jones and Dap Kings Fairy Tale Of New York - The Pogues (feat. Kirty MacColl) Miss Fogerty's Christmas Cake - Brass Farthing Christmas Is Going To The Dogs - Eels Quel Temps Fait-Il A Paris from Monsieur Hulot's Holiday Jingle Jingle(Santa Party) from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98fy16_AK4c Most of this playlist is available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/3UFjCAHVkvPTgFwGqJaCM6 And Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr14-obligatory-christmas-special/pl.u-7YrMT4Ng164 Special Dogs: If you're in Sydney... Sport For Jove's summer season: http://www.sportforjove.com.au Pipilotti Rist's "Sip My Ocean" at the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art: https://www.mca.com.au/pipilotti-rist/ If you're on the internet... Open Mic Eagle's "Brick Body Kids Still Daydream": https://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/brick-body-kids-still-daydream Joe Strummer's "London Calling": http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mgqd3/episodes/player Adam Neely "What Makes A Song Sound Like Christmas": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5WfgMVtueo

    30 min
  2. Ep13: Ungracious Hiatus

    30/06/2017

    Ep13: Ungracious Hiatus

    We're back. We're really sorry. We're in a white cube. We have song selections for you, and now we won't stop until the end of time. In this episode: We explain what we've been up to. Bryce was thoroughly punked. Jim was in a screaming crowd. Both of us have torn apart some barrels. Listen to this week's tracks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/1dIuOkq1mlsEMNQXYUxJO8 Or Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr13-ungracious-hiatus/idpl.f9c0cae11fc7486d849957f785d42d6e Full links to everything we discuss are at https://whatatrainrec.tumblr.com

    31 min
  3. Ep:12 So cheesy, so good. (with Yve Blake)

    01/05/2017

    Ep:12 So cheesy, so good. (with Yve Blake)

    We are joined by self proclaimed "trash monster" Yve Blake to make a fabulous playlist of our favourite songs that we know are cheesy/daggy/trashy but we love unabashadly. We also try to get to the bottom of what makes a song "cheesy"? Listen to this week's tracks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/4pftz10FtsxUWL0KSozfRm Or Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr12-so-cheesy-so-good/idpl.b3fc9d0323ad4ae4b55a6bb2316b3c29 For some reason Richard Cheese's live album isn't available to stream, but the Imperial March is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWeKB8n7qw Full links to everything we discuss are at https://whatatrainrec.tumblr.com

    33 min
  4. Ep11: That Reminds Me

    23/04/2017

    Ep11: That Reminds Me

    No theme this week! Bryce and Jim just sit down an trade songs back and forth based on what the last song reminded them of. It turned out pretty well. Listen to this week's tracks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/35MBqT0Ms4b6cbicNvzvqy Or Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr11-that-reminds-me/idpl.86b6869c11d3441f8850e9626af2eed0 Joanna Newsom 'Sprout and the Bean' isn't available to stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47yuiPK01kg Full links to everything we discuss are at https://whatatrainrec.tumblr.com

    21 min
  5. Ep10: My Life Is A Movie (with Emilia Higgs)

    18/04/2017

    Ep10: My Life Is A Movie (with Emilia Higgs)

    We are once again joined by Emilia Higgs to make a playlist of our favourite songs that we discovered in the soundtracks of movies or tv shows. Listen to this week's tracks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/1XFpxlZ7rqm13TyKAalbiJ Or Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr10-my-life-is-a-movie/idpl.5af37fbe8db24202bbce6623deae1d53 Unfortunately The Peddlers' rendition of On A Clear Day You Can See Forever is not available on Apple Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxf1IFgPH5s Also the music of French rap duo Axiom appears to only be available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZZaZ2DILbU We mentioned a lot of other pieces during this episode. Full links to everything we discuss are at https://whatatrainrec.tumblr.com

    31 min
  6. Ep:9 It Really Gets Good Around Minute 13 (with Emilia Higgs)

    10/04/2017

    Ep:9 It Really Gets Good Around Minute 13 (with Emilia Higgs)

    The perfect pop song is said to be three minutes long. This week, with special guest Emilia Higgs, we take a dive into songs that definitely aren't that. These are Long. Songs. Listen to this week's tracks on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/bryce.halliday/playlist/5FvLzxFii8BgrmnPW2KDtV Or Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/playlist/watr09-it-really-gets-good-around-minute-13/idpl.bb47a7b68d8142a7be74fbcd3b70bfc2 The 500 year song Jim mentioned was As Slow As Possible by John Cage, the Halberstadt performance of which is schedule to take 639 years. It began on September 5th 2001, with a pause that lasted until February 5, 2003. Full links to everything we discuss are at https://whatatrainrec.tumblr.com

    30 min
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Bryce Halliday and Jim Fishwick get together every couple of weeks to humbly recommend a bunch of songs you might enjoy on your train commute. It's a train rec, but you can listen to them wherever really. Every episode contains links in the description to streaming playlists of the songs talked about.

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