The Cacophony Sessions
Dan Whitell
Passionate and natural music discussion covering a wide variety of genres and eras in popular music. Not for the faint-hearted, but all in good spirit, The Cacophony Sessions Podcast deconstructs music with observations both astute and absurd from its range of hosts.
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S1E07B - Cacfest 2020 (Part Two)
The Cacophony Sessions
01/01/21 • 134 min
Welcome to Episode Eight, where we finish running down our dream festival line-up, covering hip-hop and miscellaneous choices and all of our favourite acts from history.
Dan, Alex, Martyn, Dave and Tom assembled to continue the episode, but not everyone made it to the end of the festival. Typical. A few technical issues and the longest episode ever mean that this is a few days later than anticipated. Originally pegged as our Christmas special, the festive trimmings are kept to the end of the conversation so it doesn't feel too out of season. Well apart from our own Christmas song, of course.
So please listen to this, the last episode of The Cacophony Sessions in 2020, as we find out just how Al gets revenge f you cross him, the unsexiest song of all time and the travel safety concerns of Dolly Parton.
Thanks for listening in 2020. We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our Records of the Year. From everyone at TCSP, we hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, and let's get ready for a better 2021.
With music from Martyn Ley, DJ Funktapuss, Danny W & The Dope and Tom Fry.
Album of the Year 2024
The Cacophony Sessions
02/24/25 • 116 min
This is the audio-only version for the old school soldiers.
The Cacophony Sessions Podcast returns to dive deep into our favourite records of 2024! Featuring Dan Whitell's returning ragtag band of cohorts Jim, Martyn and Tom this year, please enjoy this year's definitive channel list from a year that some were more enthusiastic about than others.
All albums were scored out of ten to one decimal point, and naturally the scores presented are the collective scores from all of us combined.
With deliciously juxtaposed snacks, accidental Partridge galore, terrifying forgotten adverts and another round of Does It Slap, as well as some strong cardigan game - the Cac is back, baby.
Stay Funky
S3E02 - Drum and Drummer
The Cacophony Sessions
05/16/22 • 189 min
OUR BIGGEST EPISODE YET!
Following the recent death of Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins, The Cacophony Sessions Podcast decided it would be an appropriate time to discuss our fifteen favourite drummers of all time according to tonight's panel. Banging on about drums for over three hours this time around are Dan Whitell, Dan B, Alex, Martyn and Tom each with three nominations.
We cover a lot of different aspects of drumming, from both a technical standpoint as well as from a more casual perspective. Hopefully we can help you to develop a newfound passion for these purveyors of percussion. If not, we still have all our usual swearing, fighting and outlandish opinions, with a new segment called 'Does It Slap?' (complete with a shit jingle), rock's greatest sneeze, posing for photos with Daniel Day-Lewis lookalikes and all the latest new releases that have caught our attention.
As mentioned in this episode, please hit us up on Twitter or Our Blog for the latest CSP news and ask us your burning questions with a view to our future plans for Patreon Q&A specials. Leave us a review on Apple Music and subscribe where you can. Thanks to our friends at Chart Music and The Simon Says Music Podcast as well; please go and support them and we'll see you all next month for The Cacophony Sessions Goes Pop USA!
Stay Funky.
All music courtesy of Dan Whitell and Martyn Ley.
S4E04A - Licence to Bang
The Cacophony Sessions
07/02/23 • 106 min
Are you ready for our TWO PART James Bond Theme Special? You’d better be! Part One of The Cacophony Sessions Season 4 Episode 4 is here and features Dan Whitell with Alex, Dan B, Tom and Martyn as they chronologically rate each of the main themes from every James Bond movie. This part begins with the original 007 film Dr No from 1962 and takes us up to the end of the seventies, ending with 1979’s Moonraker.
Part Two of this episode will be coming shortly containing the remaining movies. The only way to cover it comprehensively was to record two full-length episodes so consider that a bonus!
If you think this means we are going to rush through without our usual brand of subjective butt-hurt ranting, we’re glad to disappoint as in this part we take some time to respond to YouTube comments, bang on about Run-DMC for a bit, contemplate becoming Den with ven and use the Factchecker 3000’s blindspots to spout questionable facts about football. As always, the language is very sweary and this time, Dan has a wonky green screen which will undoubtedly ruin his bid to be the next Bond.
Thanks for listening, and if you weren’t aware a large taster of every episode is uploaded in video format to our YouTube channel. We also post other videos, such as CAC News, where we give you a rundown of the latest goings on in music every couple of months, and Dan’s recent interview with Bristol hip-hop trio The Scribes! Become a Cacophant by joining our Patreon for just £5 a month to gain access to the video link to each episode in full. You can hurl abuse at us over on Twitter or Facebook and now, you can follow us on TikTok and Instagram where we’ll be posting various shorts from the episodes and other music-related pictures and videos. This is all detailed over at our hub of operations - the Cacophony Sessions Blog.
Oh, and we encourage you to all have a go at our cardigans or other opinions. Leave us a review if you like. Cardigan or content, either is helpful.
S4E05 - The Top 15 Songs of 2003
The Cacophony Sessions
09/10/23 • 118 min
We wind the clock back 20 years on this episode of The Cacophony Sessions as Dan Whitell runs down the Top 15 Songs of 2003 with contributions from Martyn, Jim, Alex and Tom. 15 picks each, scored out of ten - some using the IGN scoring system and others...not doing that. This episode ranks the top 15, although all 75 songs can be found in alphabetical order on our Apple Music playlist and our Spotify playlist.
A couple of Undeniable Bangers and tangents ahoy - LET’S FIND OUT which band may have suffered with a head lice problem, which indie rock band was banned from the Fry household, which one of us got married recently and we introduce a banger of a new gameshow - What Has Martyn Been Up To? Answers on a postcard, please.
As you may have seen, we have a new website - www.cacophonysessions.com. You can find all of our episodes, all our video content including Dan’s Slammin’ Seven series and our The Cacophony Sessions Meets... interview series. There will also be another episode of CAC News coming in the near future. The first half of this episode is available on YouTube. If you wish to see the whole thing, it is available by joining the Funkatier of our Patreon for £5 a month. All proceeds will be reflected in production values! Of course if money is tight, which we know it is, all of the audio will always be uploaded to all podcast platforms.
Let us know your thoughts and make sure to leave us a like or comment where possible. We’ll see you in the next one, when we’ll be covering our favourite guitar solos in “Shredder’s Revenger, or: Just Axin’ Questions.”
Stay Funky
The Cacophony Sessions crew.
S2E05 - Bangers on the Box (TV Themes)
The Cacophony Sessions
08/20/21 • 108 min
After some scheduling conflicts, The Cacophony Sessions returns to discuss 16 of our favourite TV themes of all time. Dan is joined by CO-HOSTS Alex, Dave and Tom as we discuss some iconic and some obscure music used in the opening sequence of various television shows and put them to the sword.
Over the course of this episode we discuss DJing in the new COVID era; why Alex has paint on his face; which one of us hung out with a Grammy-winning rapper and we give Hugh Grant some life advice.
Best consumed with YouTube at hand to experience the tunes in real time, this list is not ranked. It's just for fun! For fans of telly, we're sure you'll find some of our talking points infuriating as we present our usual brand of swearing, sweeping statements and baseless speculation, all verified with the Official Cacophony Sessions Fact Checker 3000.
Go follow us on Twitter (@cacsessionspod), Facebook (The Cacophony Sessions) and be sure to subscribe on Apple Music or tell your friends about us if you have any. Following some of these picks (and no doubt some omissions) we may not have that luxury anymore!
All music used is our own material courtesy of Danny W & The Dope, DJ Funkapuss and Longships.
S2E06 - Undeniable Bangers 2: Bang Harder (introducing the Clang)
The Cacophony Sessions
11/13/21 • 136 min
We've been away for a few months due to personal circumstances, but that does not matter anymore as The Cacophony Sessions Podcast returns for some of our best argumentative dialogue yet, surrounding songs that we think are both Undeniable Bangers and, this time, the opposite - Undeniable Clangers.
Joining The Court Jester of Funk Dan Whitell are co-hosts Dave, Tom, Alex, Martyn and the debut of new voice Dan B. On this one we discover which of us is perversely affected by an old Manchester United video compilation, Paul McCartney gets a pasting again and Martyn tries to pass Duran Duran into the Chamber of Bangers. Again.
Twenty four songs in total - twelve good and twelve bad. All drizzled with irreverent chat, too many beers and some incredibly erroneous opinions. It's like we were never away.
Let us know how wrong we are on Twitter, see our updated blog for the full list of bangers and you can now subscribe to our YouTube channel for video content!
Please leave reviews where you can and give us some feedback. We hope you enjoy the episode - the next one will be out much sooner.
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S3E06 - The Top 10 Pop Punk Songs Ever
The Cacophony Sessions
12/10/22 • 107 min
As well as an ever-heated discussion, we also discuss other topics as always and this month you’ll discover bad accents, storm-outs, the Triple H effect, who the The white Temptations are and Al takes an opportunity to play Batman. Tantrums, tangents, bangers and breakdowns; it’s all here. Full scores and the playlist of all 30 songs we nominated will be available on our blog.
This is the first ever video episode of the podcast, and for Christmas 2022 we’re making the full episode available in its uncensored glory on YouTube. The audio version is available as ever, and next month you’ll be able to receive each episode in its entirety for a monthly fee over at our Patreon, whilst an edited version of the opening section will be available for free on YouTube. The full audio podcast will continue to be available for free as usual. Let us know if you have any questions over at our Twitter, and please continue to support of us our Blog and on Facebook too. See you in January for our season finale, Bangers on Trial.
Contains strong language and some minor audio glitches. Video/audio edited by Dan Whitell. All music by Martyn Ley.
S3E05 - Nuthin' but a Podcast About a "G" Thang
The Cacophony Sessions
11/07/22 • 109 min
This month's episode of The Cacophony Sessions sees Dan Whitell invite Al, Jim, Martyn and Tom into the theatre of conflict as we discuss our favourite albums, MCs and producers in hip-hop during the early nineties. Whether you're East Coast, West Coast or something in between this is one of our more free-flowing conversations in which we offer our personal favourites for you to either newly discover or to take umbrage with.
Discover quite how this pertains to Michael Barrymore, an undeniable banger from My Chemical Romance, Arctic Monkeys and Gregorian chanting as we release our latest broadcast of madness to every podcast platform.
As always, please find us on Twitter, Facebook and of course The Cacophony Sessions Blog where you can find all our recent articles. Spread the word and if you can, give us a five star review on Apple Podcasts. Until the next one, keep it light and stay funky.
S2E03 - Hits to Die For: Patrick Bateman's Killer Playlist
The Cacophony Sessions
05/11/21 • 146 min
Life got in the way, but do not fret as The Cacophony Sessions Podcast is back and longer than ever! The first of two episodes in May to make up for the lack of an update in April sees Dan as well as the regular line up Alex, Martyn, Tom and Dave selecting songs that we suspect would be found on the walkman of American Psycho's Patrick Bateman from the years 1985-88.
The 1991 book and 2000 film are both renowned for their use of musical references delivered from the perspective of psychotic killer Patrick Bateman who masquerades as an 80s stockbroker by day. We've come up with 25 songs between us that are not mentioned in the novel or used in the movie soundtrack to justify talking about the 80s for two and a half hours.
So if you want to find out who was in the band 'Cork the Bitch's Ass', which singer Dan had a crush on in his pre-school years and which albums Tom's Dad owns, listen to this. If you don't, we mention at least three other things as well. This one is very sweary and very heated. In other words, it won't disappoint.
All music courtesy of Longships, Danny W & The Dope and DJ Funktapuss.
Playlist Available via our Blog.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Cacophony Sessions have?
The Cacophony Sessions currently has 35 episodes available.
What topics does The Cacophony Sessions cover?
The podcast is about Hip-Hop, Discussion, Classical, Music, Music History, Pop, Podcast, Podcasts, Jazz, Rock, Dance, Music Commentary and Funk.
What is the most popular episode on The Cacophony Sessions?
The episode title 'S3E05 - Nuthin' but a Podcast About a "G" Thang' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Cacophony Sessions?
The average episode length on The Cacophony Sessions is 115 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Cacophony Sessions released?
Episodes of The Cacophony Sessions are typically released every 36 days, 4 hours.
When was the first episode of The Cacophony Sessions?
The first episode of The Cacophony Sessions was released on Jun 20, 2020.
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