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Black Band T-Shirt — 180 episodes
Episode 64: Madonna (pre-Y2K era) (Part 2) AKA from being condemned for being too damn sexy to an enlightenment resembling a mid-life gap year via a smooth snooze.
Episode 64: Madonna (pre-Y2K era) (Part 1) AKA from the New York club scene to being condemned by the Pope via synth-pop bangers galore!
Revisited 18: Gorillaz - The Mountain
Episode 63: Nine Inch Nails (Part 2) AKA sober arena rock bangers to Fleetwood Mac collaborations via political glitching and album ambiguity.
Episode 63: Nine Inch Nails (Part 1) AKA from angsty clunks to various textures of despair via insect ridden antagonistic bangers.
COMPELIMINATION: Kerrang! 3: The Album (2002)
Episode 62: Florence + The Machine (AKA energised lush chaos to simmering cinematic maximalism via a lot of healing)
COMPELIMINATION: Ultimate Disney (Disc 1)
Episode 61: Jack White (AKA bitter divorcee to blistering quinquagenarian via a fetching blue rinse)
Top 10 Albums of 2025 (+ many honourable mentions and plenty of essential waffle)
COMPELIMINATION: David Byrne Radio Playlist: Christmas Music For People Who Hate Christmas Music
Episode 60: Tom Waits (The Asylum Years) (Part 2) AKA Unwanted sleazies, Hollywood bores, cartoon creepies and choruses galore.
Episode 60: Tom Waits (The Asylum Years) (Part 1) AKA Schmaltzy troubadours, deteriorating gravel and smokey anemoia.
Revisited 17: Deftones - private music
Episode 59: Green Day (Part 4) AKA throwing every turd at the wall before remembering you're a real-life band via unicorn induced fury.
Episode 59: Green Day (Part 3) AKA The tale of two epics. A once in a generation comeback and Billie-Lloyd Webber's swollen mess.
Episode 59: Green Day (Part 2) AKA - gnarly punk, everything but funk and a commercial slump.
Episode 59: Green Day (Part 1) AKA - how to 'sell out' by releasing a Grammy winning, multi-platinum album named after poo.
Revisited 16: Garbage - Let All That We Imagine Be the Light
COMPELIMINATION: Now That's What I Call Music 24
Episode 58: St Vincent (Part 2) From maximalist booty to 100 hours of synths and psychedelics via Prince Floyd
Episode 58: St Vincent (Part 1) - AKA a rare upward trajectory from a polyphonic twee to getting her janky funk on via a nightmare carnival.
COMPELIMINATION: Rock Sound (Music With Attitude, Vol.3) + Introductory rant on London residents and their aversion to allowing small alternative festivals to exist.
Revisited 15: Lady Gaga - MAYHEM
Episode 57: Deftones (Part 2) AKA - from naming your album after self-pleasure to modelling artwork on perfume adverts via an extremely nice surprise.
Episode 57: Deftones (Part 1) AKA - cocaine studios to crusty rock clubs via flat earth conspiracy theories
COMPELIMINATION: School of Rock Soundtrack (2003)
Revisited 14: Mogwai
Episode 56 (with Tom): Supergrass (Part 2)
Episode 56 (with Tom): Supergrass (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: Now That's What I Call Music 84
Episode 55: Elliott Smith (Part 2)
Episode 55: Elliott Smith (Part 1)
Albums Of The Year 2024
COMPELIMINATION: It's a Cool, Cool Christmas
COMPELIMINATION: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Soundtrack
Episode 54: Garbage (Part 2)
Episode 54: Garbage (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: Now That's What I Call Music 3
Episode 53: Oasis (Part 2)
Episode 53: Oasis (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: War Child Records: HELP (1995)
Episode 52: Gorillaz (Part 2)
Episode 52: Gorillaz (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: Rock Sound (Music With Attitude, Vol.2)
Episode 51: Mogwai (Part 2)
Episode 51: Mogwai (Part 1)
Top 5 Steve Albini Albums
COMPELIMINATION: Now That's What I Call Music II
COMPELIMINATION: Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack (1996)
Episode 50: Fleetwood Mac - The Buckingham / Nicks era (Part 2)
Episode 50: Fleetwood Mac - The Buckingham / Nicks era (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: Rock Sound (Music With Attitude, Vol.1)
Revisited 13: Blink 182 - 'One More Time...'
Episode 49 (with Lucy Bonnett): Girls Aloud (Part 2)
Episode 49 (with Lucy Bonnett): Girls Aloud (Part 1)
COMPELIMINATION: Now That's What I Call Music 1
Episode 48: The Pogues (Part 2)
Episode 48: The Pogues (Part 1)
Albums of The Year 2023
Top 5 Songs Used in Christmas Films
Episode 47: Magazine
Top 5 Songs: Jeff Buckley
Revisited 12: Animal Collective - 'Isn't It Now?'
Episode 46: Turnover (Part 2)
Episode 46: Turnover (Part 1)
Revisited 11: PJ Harvey - 'I Inside The Old Year Dying'
Episode 45 (with Paul Chave): The Smashing Pumpkins (Part 3)
Episode 45 (with Paul Chave): The Smashing Pumpkins (Part 2)
Episode 45 (with Paul Chave): The Smashing Pumpkins (Part 1)
Top 5 Songs: Joy Division
Revisited 10 (with Lucy Bonnett): Metallica - '72 Seasons'
Episode 44: Animal Collective (Part 2)
Episode 44: Animal Collective (Part 1)
Wide Awake 2023 Review
Episode 43: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Part 2)
Episode 43: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Part 1)
Episode 42 (with Arkady English): blink-182 (Part 2)
Episode 42 (with Arkady English): blink-182 (Part 1)
Episode 41: Pixies (Part 2)
Episode 41: Pixies (Part 1)
Episode 40 (with Josie Perkins): Massive Attack (Part 2)
Episode 40 (with Josie Perkins): Massive Attack (Part 1)
Albums of the Year 2022
Episode 39: The Darkness
Episode 38 (with Jack Kirby-Lowe): Iron Maiden - The Bayley/Dickinson Era (Part 2)
Episode 38 (with Jack Kirby-Lowe): Iron Maiden - The Bayley/Dickinson Era (Part 1)
Episode 37: Kendrick Lamar (Part 2)
Episode 37: Kendrick Lamar (Part 1)
Revisited 9: The Mars Volta - 'The Mars Volta'
Revisited 8: Björk - 'Fossora'
Episode 36 (with Adam Vallely): Cave In (Part 2)
Episode 36 (with Adam Vallely): Cave In (Part 1)
Revisited 7: Alexisonfire - 'Otherness'
Episode 35: City and Colour (Part 2)
Episode 35: City and Colour (Part 1)
Episode 34 (with Jack Kirby-Lowe): Iron Maiden - The Di'Anno/Dickinson Era (Part 2)
Episode 34 (with Jack Kirby-Lowe): Iron Maiden - The Di'Anno/Dickinson Era (Part 1)
Revisited 6: Beyoncé - 'RENAISSANCE'
Revisited 5 (with Rob Barbour): Coheed and Cambria - 'Vaxis - Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind'
Top 5 Songs: SikTh + ArcTanGent 2022 Review
Episode 33: The Mars Volta (Part 2)
Episode 33: The Mars Volta (Part 1)
Episode 32 (with Richard Morgan): Manic Street Preachers (Part 4)
Episode 32 (with Richard Morgan): Manic Street Preachers (Part 3)
Episode 32 (with Richard Morgan): Manic Street Preachers (Part 2: The Holy Bible track-by-track)
Episode 32 (with Richard Morgan): Manic Street Preachers (Part 1)
Episode 31: Beyoncé (Part 2)
Episode 31: Beyoncé (Part 1)
Episode 30 (with Tim Morrant): Supertramp (Part 2)
Episode 30 (with Tim Morrant): Supertramp (Part 1)
Episode 29: Beastie Boys (Part 2)
Episode 29: Beastie Boys (Part 1)
Revisited 4: Arcade Fire - 'WE'
Revisited 3: Bloc Party - 'Alpha Games'
Episode 28: The Clash (Part 2)
Episode 28: The Clash (Part 1)
Episode 27 (with Theo Araby-Kirkpatrick): Rolo Tomassi (Part 2)
Episode 27 (with Theo Araby-Kirkpatrick): Rolo Tomassi (Part 1)
Top 5 Songs: WWE Themes (Jim Johnston era)
Episode 26: Arcade Fire (Part 2)
Episode 26: Arcade Fire (Part 1)
Episode 25 (with Paul Chave): R.E.M. (Part 3)
Episode 25 (with Paul Chave): R.E.M. (Part 2)
Episode 25 (with Paul Chave): R.E.M. (Part 1)
Episode 24: Lady Gaga (Part 2)
Episode 24: Lady Gaga (Part 1)
Revisited 2 (with Matt Markham): Mastodon - 'Hushed and Grim'
Episode 23 (with Lucy Bonnett): Metallica (Part 3)
Episode 23 (with Lucy Bonnett): Metallica (Part 2)
Episode 23 (with Lucy Bonnett): Metallica (Part 1)
Episode 22: Deafheaven (Part 2)
Episode 22: Deafheaven (Part 1)
Episode 21: The Beatles (Part 3)
Episode 21: The Beatles (Part 2)
Episode 21: The Beatles (Part 1)
Revisited 1: Biffy Clyro - 'The Myth of The Happily Ever After'
Top 5 Songs: Birds In Row (with Cat Rowland)
Episode 20: Tyler, The Creator (Part 2)
Episode 20: Tyler, The Creator (Part 1)
Episode 19 (with Rob Barbour): Coheed and Cambria (Part 4)
Episode 19 (with Rob Barbour): Coheed and Cambria (Part 3)
Top 5 Songs: Oceansize + Portals Festival 2021 Review
Episode 18: Nirvana (Part 2)
Episode 18: Nirvana (Part 1)
Episode 17 (with Ash Tubb of Sugar Horse): Arab Strap (Part 2)
Episode 17 (with Ash Tubb of Sugar Horse): Arab Strap (Part 1)
Episode 16 (with Nikki Bonnett): Radiohead (Part 3)
Episode 15: PJ Harvey (Part 2)
Episode 15: PJ Harvey (Part 1)
Episode 14 (with Nikki Bonnett): Radiohead (Part 2)
Episode 14 (with Nikki Bonnett): Radiohead (Part 1)
Episode 13: Gojira (Part 2)
Episode 13: Gojira (Part 1)
Episode 12 (with Adam Vallely): Queens of the Stone Age (Part 2)
Episode 12 (with Adam Vallely): Queens of the Stone Age (Part 1)
Episode 11: Kanye West (Part 2)
Episode 11: Kanye West (Part 1)
Top 5 Songs: Alexisonfire
Episode 10: Paramore (Part 2)
Episode 10: Paramore (Part 1)
Episode 9 (with Rob Barbour): Coheed and Cambria (Part 2)
Episode 9 (with Rob Barbour): Coheed and Cambria (Part 1)
Top 5 Songs: The Hotelier
Episode 8 (with Neal Pike): Jimmy Eat World (Part 2)
Episode 8 (with Neal Pike): Jimmy Eat World (Part 1)
Episode 7: Bloc Party (Part 2)
Episode 7: Bloc Party (Part 1)
Episode 6 (with Matt Markham): Mastodon (Part 2)
Episode 6 (with Matt Markham): Mastodon (Part 1)
Episode 5: Enter Shikari (Part 2)
Episode 5: Enter Shikari (Part 1)
Episode 4 (With Alex Morrant): The White Stripes (Part 2)
Episode 4 (With Alex Morrant): The White Stripes (Part 1)
Episode 3: Björk (Part 2)
Episode 3: Björk (Part 1)
Top 5 Songs: Reuben
Episode 2: The Dillinger Escape Plan (Part 2)
Episode 2: The Dillinger Escape Plan (Part 1)
Episode 1: Biffy Clyro