Episode 00 – Pilot – Nine Legendary Gingers

Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

In this pilot episode, James and Glen bring three songs each to the discussion and set the scene for the journey to come.

Episode 00 – Nine Legendary Gingers.

Transcript available here.

Content warnings: smoking and drinking (mild, brief); parenthood (infrequent, brief); Game of Thrones spoilers (end of Season 6 – incorrectly identified as Season 7 in the episode).

Recommendations

Since recording this episode, Rick Astley wrote this column for iNews ahead of his appearance at Glastonbury: Rick Astley: I walked away from the music industry because no one was bothered.

Rick Astley sings Never Gonna Give you Up with the Foo Fighters (explicit language right from the start).

Stock-Aitkin-Waterman Earnings from YouTube hits.

Union Chapel – Events.

Song Exploder – Wait for It by Lin Manuel Miranda (requires Netflix subscription).

Hamilton, on Disney+ (requires Disney+ subscription).

Songs Discussed in this Episode

1. Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
2. Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
3. Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
4. Suzanne Vega – Gypsy (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
5. Oasis – Cigarettes and Alcohol (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
6. Hamilton – Wait for It (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).

Our current theme is the intro to Bored by Nympheas.