Life of the Record
Life of the Record / Talkhouse
4.9from 516 ratings
- 63
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 516
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 706K
- YouTube views
About Life of the Record
Classic albums, told by the people who made them.
- Publisher
- Life of the Record / Talkhouse
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 28 Jul 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 63 episodes have a transcript.
28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Making of THE WARNING by Hot Chip - featuring Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard
3 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Making of SPIDERLAND by Slint - feat. Brian McMahan, Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear
18 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Making of UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT by The Soft Boys - featuring Robyn Hitchcock
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The Making of THE WARNING by Hot Chip - featuring Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard
Published 28 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'd probably been listening to Robert Wyatt that day in the office at Domino and my song sounded quite like a plaintive, hymnal, sad, sustained chords ballad and I wrote it and then brought it into the other room that me and Joe usually worked in and I said, Joe, I've just written this song Could we try recording it? So we recorded it just like that. And Joe saw some potential in it to be actually repurposed as a disco track or a house tempo track. And so we set about making that. And I was a boy from school Helplessly helping all the rules I mean, Boy From School, I have a much clearer memory of the creation of that song. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Life of the Record
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- Alexis Taylor
- Joe Goddard
- Brian McMahan
- Britt Walford
- David Pajo
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 706,273
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 256 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 260 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 99
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