Join Mick and Jeff as they talk about artists, albums and music genres with passion that comes from personal connection. They’ve seen artists in concert at venues that don’t even exist today, bought albums when they were released on vinyl and, in some cases, met the artists.
Sometimes they love the artist or music they're talking about. Sometimes they don’t. But, without fail, you'll always hear something you didn’t know.
A rock music standard is the “sad song”. Most commonly these revolve around “love”, but not always! Sometimes they can just be talking about a sad situation. This episode, we look at a grab bag of sad songs and artists who cover “sad” from a range of viewpoints. Keep your tissues close by!! In “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” we celebrate Australians Johnny Young and Glenn A Baker and jump to the left for the wonderful Tim Curry. In “Rock News”, Jeff discovers...
27 Sept 2026
Why We Love Roxy Music
Over the last 6 years, we’ve often cited Roxy Music amongst our favourite bands, albums or songs. We’ve talked about their albums - covers, lyrics, and so on – and included them amongst “Deep Cuts” that you need to know about. Although Bowie was the first artist we obsessed over in our early teens, Roxy Music was the most important. This episode, we’d like to talk about how, in many ways, Roxy Music was a perfect answer to the world in the 70’s and a major influence on so much that came...
13 Sept 2026
Misused Songs
We’ve talked about how people don’t listen to the lyrics before using a song – for advertising, a political rally, or a special event. That's how we end up with Volvo using a song about drug abuse and transvestism to promote their cars, or couples using a song about obsession and stalking as they recite their wedding vows, or Iggy Pop’s ode to his heroin addiction to promote a luxury ocean cruise, to name but a few! We look at these and other examples of “Didn't you listen to the ...
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