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The Recollective
by Charlie & Tom
Two (ex)-musicians listening to music, breaking down how it was made, what they love, playing some of their own music and sharing some of their own memories
Episodes
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Episode 35: Early nineties, mid-tier Reading Festival acts
We take a look back at the bills for Reading Festivals of 1991, '92, '93 and '94 and explore the bands whose names we recognise, but maybe weren't aware of their oeuvre. Tune in to find out who we selected.
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Episode 34: Pure Sleaze
Innuendo, filth, boundary-pushing sleazy, sleazy sex songs... selected and spoken about by two middled-aged English men. An oxymoron? Well, that's for you to judge.
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Episode 30: Berlin part 2
We get the band back together: Jim, Tom, Charlies Stix and Beall (at least one of whom is streaming from the heart of Berlin) to pen another love letter to the city that inspired us all in different ways.
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Episode 29: Guitar heroes
Axe Gods, plectrum plunderers, slashers of the six-stringed beast... we're talking guitarists and guitar parts.
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Episode 28: Sheffield
Tom and Charlie welcome Mark Sturdy to the virtual studio to discuss music inspired by and made in the great city of Sheffield.
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Episode 27: Berlin part 1
The first of our love letters to the city of Berlin, a city that inspired many of our favourite artists and was the back-drop to Seeing Scarlet's album Laughter in the Dark
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Episode 26: Country
Go West... and you'll find Country Music... and so will we. It's not a genre we're experts in but we're beginning a voyage of discovery. Please join us
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Episode 24: Killer chord changes
Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick talk chords - sequences, changes... instrumentation and harmonies that create dynamic changes in songs... the difference between a chord and a key change. It's not as technical as it sounds, though we have a few sound issues of our own.
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Episode 23: Genealogy of a song (part 2)
We continue our exploration into how songs change, evolve and morph into different versions of one another. We take examples from Bowie and Grunge and do a deep dive into one of our own songs, Music Will Save You to see how songs change over time
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Episode 22: Genealogy of a song (part 1)
In this episode we consider how songs become different songs, how one song can change over the course of its life and how tempo makes a massive difference to the success of a song
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Episode 19: The Scene (part 2)
A continuation of the previous episode talking about bands in 'The Scene' - this episode features songs from Mystery Jets, Guillemots, Miss Black America, Battle, Librium and The Cling
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Episode 18: The Scene (part 1)
For every musician and every band there's a scene: shared gigs, rivalries and borrowings. For us it happened in London in the early 2000s around rock and indie music. In this first episode on 'The Scene', Tom, Charlie and Stix look back on some of those scene setters....
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Episode 15: The New Abnormal
Tom, Charlie, Jim and Mick sit down to do their first listen-along and to kick off the new format they've chosen The Strokes' recent release, The New Abnormal.
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Episode 14: The Strokes
Julian, Fab, Nikolai, Nick and Albert - they came to slap us around the face in 2001. And they stuck around for years after. In this episode, we talk about our favourite early Strokes tracks
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Episode 12: Covers
Tom, Charlie and Jim listen to their favourite cover versions and discuss what makes a good cover. Are some songs heaters? How different do you need to make a song if you're covering it?
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Episode 11: The Libertines
Tom and Charlie talk about a band that blew up in the early '00s. Behind the pop-up gigs, endless headlines, tales of make-ups and break-ups, drugs and debauchery there were some great songs and a visceral energy that was hard to miss.
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Episode 8: Bowie
Tom, Charlie and Jim talk about the magnificent David Bowie and begin to scratch the surface of the great man's legacy. Starting with a recording featured on Bowie at the Beeb, they take in Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Lodger, Low, Let's Dance and even Labyrinth.
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Episode 5: quiet LOUD
Inspired by the Pixies' work in the late 80s, many guitar bands in the early to mid-90s would employ a dynamic of quiet verses, exploding into monster choruses. No more so than Nirvana. Tom and Charlie dissect some of their favourites and how these fed into their own songs
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Episode 1: Alan Moulder
Tom and Charlie make their first foray into remote podcasting by looking at some of the work of legendary producer, engineer and mixer Alan Moulder (and some songs that may actually have been produced and mixed by other people). The show concludes with a version of a song mixed by Alan Moulder…
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does The Recollective have?
The Recollective currently has 19 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is The Recollective about?
Two (ex)-musicians listening to music, breaking down how it was made, what they love, playing some of their own music and sharing some of their own memories
How often does The Recollective release new episodes?
The Recollective has 19 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Who hosts The Recollective?
The Recollective is created and hosted by Charlie & Tom.
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