Yes, it’s that time again, podcast number 5! Whoop whoop it’s the sound of the Wizards!
No great over-arching concept this time around, it’s just a free-for-all that’s free for all to download right here.
Boomshanka!
Robert Pollard’s Guide To The Late 60s podcast- 013 Horizontal (Bee Gees) / The Graham Gouldman Thing (Graham Gouldman)In which we get our Massive Chew Sets around another Bee Gees album and the debut from future 10cc-er Gouldman.
- 012 Odessa (Bee Gees)The relative heights of adult humans and Christmas trees are amongst many topics discussed as the red flock cover of Bee Gees’ 1969 double album Odessa steps into view.
- 011 Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies) / 1st (Bee Gees)Bulbous swirling fonts and psychedelic imagery a-plenty on the covers. But what will the Wizards make of the music on this pair of albums recorded in Swinging London™ during the Summer of Love™
- 010 Butterfly (The Hollies) / Forever Changes (Love)Watch the snot cake against your pants and turn into crystal as we discuss 2 albums released in November 1967.
- 009 The Smile Sessions (The Beach Boys)We’re giving you excitations and favourite vege-tables as we listen to the most notorious “lost” album of the 60s.
- 008 Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys) / Song Cycle (Van Dyke Parks)Out there having fun in the warm California sun as we explore Rolling Stone magazine’s second best album ever and one of the most expensively recorded flops of the 1960s.
- 013 Horizontal (Bee Gees) / The Graham Gouldman Thing (Graham Gouldman)
Top Posts & Pages
Track listing: The Ramones – California Sun / The Excitements – Wait A Minute / The Mentalettes – Fine Fine Fine / Moussa Doumbia – Keleya / Jeanette – Por Que Te Vas / Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking / Old Crow Medicine Show – Mississippi Saturday Night / Gil Scott-Heron – Enough / MJ Hibbert & The Validators – Sod It, Let’s Get Pissed / Guided By Voices – Hangover Child / Neneh Cherry & The Thing – Dream Baby Dream / Ted Key – Me Copy Of London Calling / Black Reindeer – Charlie Sheen / The Stranglers – Walk On By
And a reminder of Kicker’s Question: What is the connection between Scott Walker and Leeds United? (And no, Chorizo, it’s not that they are both shit).
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