27 The Power of Don Corleone Compels You! - Film

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09/13/20 • 103 min

Episode 27: The Power of Don Corleone Compels You! - Film (31st August 2020)
‘The Podcast, or El Podcasterino, that’s not into the whole brevity thing.'
As Jeremy takes his annual holiday to Summerisle, Vince and Neil stock-up on exorbitantly priced popcorn and drinks and sneak off to the movies to watch some old favourites. Vince discusses the eee eee eee eees and tinkly tinkly tinkly tinkly tinks of late 70’s/early 80’s horror film synth scores, and reminisces about being tangentially involved in a pirate film smuggling operation from Amsterdam, and as Neil finds himself in the middle of a Dudester cult that drink White Russians and abstain from bowling on the Sabbath, he rhapsodizes over Michael Mann’s blue colour wash, and the music revolution ushered in by the Sony Walkman.
Then, both men try to rate Paul McCartney on an LSD Spectrometer, and take a juicy bite of Forbidden Fruit.

The films we discuss:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Big Lebowski

The Exorcist

Manhunter

Magical Mystery Tour

The artists we discuss and rate on this show are Burt Bacharach and BJ Thomas, The First Edition, Mike Oldfield and Iron Butterfly. As always, The Beatles are our final topic of discussion.
FULL TRACK LISTING

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head – BJ Thomas (From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition (From The Big Lebowski, 1998)

Tubular Bells (Excerpt from Side One) – Mike Oldfield (From The Exorcist, 1973)

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly (From Manhunter, 1986)

Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles (From Magical Mystery Tour, 1967)
NEIL RECOMMENDS

Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo (from the London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony) – Mike Oldfield

VINCE RECOMMENDS

Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979)

The Exorcist (TV Series, 2016, Season 1 only)

The films we discuss:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Big Lebowski

The Exorcist

Manhunter

Magical Mystery Tour

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head – BJ Thomas (From Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition (From The Big Lebowski, 1998)

Tubular Bells (Excerpt from Side One) – Mike Oldfield (From The Exorcist, 1973)

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly (From Manhunter, 1986)

Magical Mystery Tour – The Beatles (From Magical Mystery Tour, 1967)
NEIL RECOMMENDS

Tubular Bells / In Dulci Jubilo (from the London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony) – Mike Oldfield

VINCE RECOMMENDS

Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979)

The Exorcist (TV Series, 2016, Season 1 only)

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26 George Clinton for President! - 1993

Episode 26: George Clinton For President! - 1993 (7th June 2020)
'The podcast with no no, no no no no, no no no no, no no with no limit.'
As our overrated time machine pitches up in 1993, Vince gets tetchy over grammatical accuracy and travels to the city limits in the name of Dr Who, alienating Meatloaf fans along the way.

Neil rewrites history and canvasses for p-funk in the White House while narrowly avoiding setting fire to Jason Kay’s hat.

Jeremy gets misty eyed (and soft hands) as he washes Massive Attack’s dirty dishes. We concur that 1993 will not feature on the next volume of ‘Vince’s Pissed Up Classics’, and Neil revokes Mr Blobby’s helicopter licence.

The artists we discuss and rate on this show are 4 Non Blondes, The Velvet Underground, Freak Power and World Party, with honourable mention of The Beatles amongst others.
FULL TRACK LISTING

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

What's Up – 4 Non Blondes

Venus In Furs '93 – The Velvet Underground

Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out – Freak Power

Is It Like Today? - World Party

Day Tripper – The Beatles
JEREMY RECOMMENDS

For Whom The Bell Tolls – The Bee Gees

VINCE RECOMMENDS

Ship Of Fools – World Party

NEIL RECOMMENDS

Rush (Dance Remix) – Freak Power

Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car – U2

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28 The Smell of Cordite Kazoos - Halloween Special 2020

Episode 28: The Smell of Cordite Kazoos - Halloween Special 2020 (25th October 2020)
‘The Podcast that warns you to beware the moon and keep t’ path.'
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

As Jeremy busies himself in the lightning-lashed laboratory of his crumbling East European castle, stitching together a monster Bono out of body part of his U2 band mates, Vince and Neil are free to run around in silly spooky costumes (or in Neil’s case, his everyday wear), scaring the neighbourhood because they ain’t afraid of no ghosts (though they are irked by double negatives).

As nefarious Neil ‘Bonemaker’ Barrett fondly remembers the wilds of Devonshire, Sigourney Weaver glammed-up to the nines, and the smell of illegal fireworks in the autumnal night, and Vampiric Vince ‘Scarifier’ Stadon is haunted by Ray Parker Sr, the Hound of the Baskervilles, and beef and tomato flavour cupasoups, in this terrible, spooky, extra long Halloween show, the diabolical duo tackle the running order of the White Album; the Americanization and commensurate commercialisation of the pagan celebration of Halloween; and the moral and ethic considerations underlining the thematic meanings of, err, T’Pau. But scariest of all, In Jeremy's absence they flail around in complete ignorance of facts, misremembering everything and generally bringing the Overrated Podcast to a new low.
The artists we discuss and rate on this show are Ray Parker Jr, T’Pau, Rockwell and Warren Zevon. As always, The Beatles are our final topic of discussion.
FULL TRACK LISTING

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr

China In Your Hand – T’Pau

Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell

Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon

Cry Baby Cry – The Beatles