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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs

Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs

Barbara Mendes-Jorge and Fran James

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Do you believe the hype? Fran and Babs talk about bands and artists potentially given undue credit & musicians who should be more famous, by curating five or ten-track playlists to argue their case
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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E10 - Glasgow: Primal Scream (Overrated) & Teenage Fanclub (Underrated) - with Chris Webb
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07/12/21 • 66 min

It's the final episode of the season and we're joined from New Zealand by Chris Webb, host of the film podcast Still Any Good?, who brings two different alternative bands from Glasgow for discussion.

Despite not being a huge Primal Scream fan, Chris listened to ALL THEIR ALBUMS IN A ROW (!) and came with his five favourite songs to try and convince himself, Fran & Babs they're better than he thinks. Chris is also a longtime Teenage Fanclub fan - Fran knows and likes them, but Babs has only ever heard of them. Will Chris be able to convert them to feverish fandom?

Listen to Chris' film podcast Still Any Good?, which claims to run the risk of "ruining childhoods by revisiting fondly remembered films".
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S3E1 - Sweden 🇸🇪 ABBA (Overrated) & kent (Underrated)

S3E1 - Sweden 🇸🇪 ABBA (Overrated) & kent (Underrated)

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11/18/21 • 97 min

We are BACK - and taking on a pop behemoth in the first episode of season three!

Babs has a bit of a vendetta against her dad's favourite band ABBA - sure, they're influential but do they deserve ALL the hype? Meanwhile, Fran wants to raise awareness of the indie band kent - who sing mostly in Swedish - to the English-speaking world, and beyond...
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E7 - Special Episode: Fran's Neighbourhood, Dorset & Hampshire

S2E7 - Special Episode: Fran's Neighbourhood, Dorset & Hampshire

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06/17/21 • 54 min

It's another special episode! Fran & Babs are both very keen to discuss local music talent in their areas, so this is Part I of II of our neighbourhood chats...

Fran hails from Bournemouth and has made a ten-track playlist showcasing musicians from "Wessex" a.k.a. Dorset & Hampshire. Some are well-known (PJ Harvey, Klaxons) others definitely more underrated (Ed Dowie, Betika)....and who does Fran call the region's "local Jarvis Cocker"?

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E8 - Special Episode: Babs' Neighbourhood, Belgium

S2E8 - Special Episode: Babs' Neighbourhood, Belgium

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06/24/21 • 49 min

Part II of our neighbourhood chats! Fran & Babs are both very keen to discuss local music talent in their areas and today we're discussing musicians from Belgium...

Babs has lived in Brussels for eight years and been a fan of Belgian music since her teens. She has made a ten-track playlist showcasing some of her fave artists from Flanders, Wallonia AND the capital...and highly recommends watching the videos accompanying the tunes, although be warned - some are hella disturbing.

Everybody should watch the fascinating The Sound of Belgium documentary, especially those interested in the origins of the UK rave scene.

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E9b - Grunge: Part II, L7 (Underrated) - with Ryan Schaff

S2E9b - Grunge: Part II, L7 (Underrated) - with Ryan Schaff

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07/06/21 • 63 min

Joined by Ryan Schaff, host of The Broken Record Player podcast, we took such a deep dive into grunge that we broke up the episode into two parts.

In this second episode, Ryan takes us on a ten-track tour of "fierce feminist pioneers" L7. We talk about how sexism definitely contributed to their underratedness and how many bands they still influenced along the way. While Fran is not so keen on all of L7's oeuvre, he watched the 'L7: Pretend We're Dead' documentary and recommends it to any music lovers interested in the grunge movement.

Listen to Ryan's music podcast The Broken Record Player podcast. Babs previously guested on Ryan's podcast where they discussed PJ Harvey's debut album Dry in GREAT depth.
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S2E11a - Bonus Episode: The Best of Sussex - with Ben Hampson, AA Sessions producer
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07/30/21 • 74 min

Fran & Babs were delighted to be joined by music producer/mixer/engineer/arranger extraordinaire Ben Hampson for a special episode focused on bands from the region he's based in, Sussex.

Ben picked five songs from five top Sussex bands - most of whom he has worked with - in one of the most solid playlists ever created for the podcast.

Along the way, we also chat about a range of topics including Ben's Agricultural Audio studio in the Lewes countryside, the AA Sessions collaboration he oversees, the demise of b-sides, the Spotify algorithm and the state of (British) rock music. Ben also kindly let Fran & Babs ask a lot of geeky questions about what a music producer does, which was fun for us - and we hope for listeners too!

Ben's website showcases some of the records he's worked on, and we recommend following AA Sessions on Instagram to keep an eye on the songs released on the last Friday each month - and we also think you should pop over to AA Sessions' Bandcamp page and pre-ordering Volume II on vinyl.
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all the songs from Ben's playlist, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S3E8 - California Part II: Metallica (Overrated) & Grandaddy (Underrated) - with Adam Corner
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01/20/22 • 83 min

Joined by Adam Corner - a writer and researcher specialising in climate change communication and culture/climate collaborations - we talk about two bands linked by the flimsiest of themes!

Metallica are much-loved rock gods, but none of us quite get the hype - will Adam's considered playlist change any of our minds? Adam and Fran also reminisce about Grandaddy, which Babs was sceptical about as they're meant to be a bit twee...so will she like any of their songs?

Check out Adam's website - and we promised him we'd plug Grandaddy's Bandcamp page, go and support Jason!

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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We're back travelling across the UK to (Greater) Manchester with special guest Matt Latham from the Pickadisc podcast. We discuss whether Courteeners successfully manage to escape the "landfill indie" label - despite having some great lyrics? Also, Matt introduces Fran & Babs to (We Are) Performance, who make "catchy, '80s inspired pop with a dance-rock bent" - something which, on paper, sounds right up our streets...

Listen to Matt's podcast Pickadisc in most places you find podcasts. Babs previously guested on Pickadisc, where she picked the album Future Perfect by Autolux.
You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S3E10 - Hip-hop: Puff Daddy (Overrated) & Jurassic 5 (Underrated) - with Kobi Omenaka
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02/07/22 • 67 min

Joined by the talented Kobi Omenaka - a podcaster, digital marketing specialist, consultant and teacher - we're finally diving into a genre we're not so knowledgeable about, hip-hop.

Puff Daddy a.k.a. P Diddy a.k.a. Puffy a.k.a. Diddy a.k.a. Sean Combs was incredible successful in the late 90s and 00s - but is his fame deserved, should he be better known as a tastemaker rather than a rapper?

We also learn a lot more about alternative hip-hop legends Jurassic 5, who Babs affectionately dubs "The Gilmore Girls of rap".

Check out Kobi's work, especially the Flixwatcher podcast and The Wire: Stripped. And do yourselves a favour: watch Puff Daddy's batshit music videos as well as the excellent Come With Me.

The Cardinal Burns 'Old School vs. New School Rap' sketch is on YouTube - as is the Mark Ronson 'How sampling transformed music' TED Talk.

You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode.

Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow us on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs - S3E2 - Britpop Part II: The Verve (Overrated) & Mansun (Underrated) - with Tara Court
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11/25/21 • 80 min

Joined by DJ and podcaster Tara Court, we're reminiscing about the 90's again! First up it's the The Verve a.k.a. releasers of the 18th best-selling album in UK chart history with Urban Hymns. Their music seems to have stalked Tara a bit too much over the years - but do they deserve the overrated label? While most people only know their biggest hit Wide Open Space, Tara and Fran are huge Mansun fans and enthusiastically introduce Babs to the weird and wonderful world of Paul, Chad, Stove et al. Mansun's music is definitely more sophisticated than your average Britpop band and their lyrics touch upon gender fluidity, Karl Marx and self-hatred among MANY MANY other things.... Tara's horror podcast is called The Killening and it's available on Patreon. She hosts a weekly radio show, The Weekend Immune System, every Sunday 6-8pm UK time on Edge Radio. You can find the playlist for this episode on Spotify - it includes all songs from our playlists, plus bonus ones from other artists we've discussed during the episode. Download, subscribe and get in touch - especially if you have any suggestions for future themes or musicians to discuss! Follow on social media - it's @OUmusicpod on Twitter, @overunderratedmusicpod on Instagram. You can also email us at [email protected]. Thanks to Mark Abbott for our logo.
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How many episodes does Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs have?

Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs currently has 93 episodes available.

What topics does Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs cover?

The podcast is about Music, Podcasts and Music Commentary.

What is the most popular episode on Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs?

The episode title 'S2E10 - Glasgow: Primal Scream (Overrated) & Teenage Fanclub (Underrated) - with Chris Webb' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs?

The average episode length on Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs is 76 minutes.

How often are episodes of Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs released?

Episodes of Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs?

The first episode of Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs was released on Dec 10, 2020.

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