S2E10 - Glasgow: Primal Scream (Overrated) & Teenage Fanclub (Underrated) - with Chris Webb

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07/12/21 • 66 min

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Over/underrated: a music podcast with Fran and Babs

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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S2E11a - Bonus Episode: The Best of Sussex - with Ben Hampson, AA Sessions producer

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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.