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Leadbelly

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How Mowtown made British Indie

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Pirates

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The Small Faces - the most short-changed band in history

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Egyptian influence on music

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Echo and the Bunnymen: Blinding the Audience for Art

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Viking influence on music

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Foreign music

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Interwar music (world war one and two)

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Beat Motel Episode 161 Ego-death indulgent Spectacular Special

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Great Bass lines of our time with Tom Klute (a.k.a Tommy Stupid)

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Normal lineup, weird noises

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Influential albums that sold naff all copies

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Autumn
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Great music, uncomfortable lyrics

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Beefy Smells and Bad Riffs: The Water Episode

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Citric Dummies Drew Special (not quite an interview)

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Fast music for slow times

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Mike Watt on The Stooges, The Minutemen, and Why Bass is Actually a Drum

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Good musicians that pop up in interesting places

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Songs We Like That Were About Sport

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Acts we used to hate, but now we love

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Jumpers for goalposts

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Bands we respect but don't get

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Musicians in films that weren't about them

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Crazy Crowds

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Odd concept albums
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How to end side A

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Bands That Are Better as a Documentary Than to Listen To

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Cats

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Obscure Genres

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Back to School

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Songs to swing your pants to

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Summer Holidays

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Songs for long car journeys

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Hellsinki Metal Festival 2025 - Beer, bands and bonkers wrestling

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Scenes Like These – Bury St Edmunds Rehearsal Rooms Fundraiser Special

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Crusty Jugglers and Flaming Skulls: A Guide to Iconic Album Covers

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Great band, terrible name

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Peel Sessions – DIY Music Glory & Elderly Gentlemen from Mayhem - with Mick Derrick from Prolapse
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Bands we'd get in a fight over, with Martin Whiskin

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Bands We Wish We Were In (For Beer, Glory & Ridiculous Haircuts)

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Kin Heavy Tunes

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Making sweet sweet music with the person you make sweet sweet love with

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Colours

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Forbidden Music

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Albums That Feel Like Coming Home (and Other Toilet Mishaps)

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Band or Business? The Ugly Truth

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Sunglasses, Squirrels & Skepta: A Musical Meltdown

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Bands We Dismissed (Then Had to Eat Our Words About)

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Now that's what I call Beat Motel Music Podcast

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Velvet Underground's Influence: From Nico to Noise Rock | ft. Dave Lennon

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Bands with Weird Merch

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Music we think we'll like when we're very old and weather forecasting man plums

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Bands to introduce friends to a genre

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Bands and genres we've grown out of

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Albums That Broke Bands: The Most Painful Recordings Ever

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Albums That Should've Been EPs (And Toilets in Bury St. Edmunds)

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Bad Band Reunions vs Good Reunions & Michael Crawford joining Queen

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Great Collaborations in Music (And Why Ginger Baker Had Horses in His House)

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Pointless Collaborations in Music (And Why We Love to Hate Them)

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Bands you wouldn't want to cover

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They sampled WHAT?

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Forgotten bands

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Rivals

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When the Drums Kick In

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Best album endings

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Great album, terrible song

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Singing Drummers

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Non English language tracks

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Multiple songwriters in one band & great band, terrible decision

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Great band, terrible decision & multiple songwriters in one band

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Albums for hangovers - Beat Motel Music Podcast

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Bands you wish you were in

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Naff debut album, great follow up

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Bands with fake drummers

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Cars in songs

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Music videos as movies

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Deathfest Helsinki 2024 review

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Bands who made films

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Best and worst music documentaries

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Best and worst biopics

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Love or hate the art, but love or hate the artists

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Gigs we wish we had gone to - with David Jago

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Bands that outgrew their genre with David Jago

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Church organs in contemporary music, with Stuart Bowditch

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Bands we missed out on

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Bands that changed my life

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Brighten the Corners 2024 day 2 (Saturday) - review

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Brighten the Corners Festival - day 1 review

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Songs about being musicians

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Bands that change the way you think - with Oli Anrufen

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Bands with longevity who definitely did turn into w@nk

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You only need one of their albums

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Killer compilation albums

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Bands with longevity, who don't turn into w@nk

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Green Lung + Lowen live at Colchester Arts Centre 30/04/24

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Sounds nasty, but it's nice

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Best opening lyrics

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Bands you love but wish you didn't - with Dan Callis

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