Episode 7 – #44 – I Would Have Liked A Garden

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

In this episode, James and Glen find that talking about albums is less fun when they both like them, so instead explore some tangents and take a shallow dive into Contemporary Christian Music.

Note: the audio quality is not as good as usual this episode – for which we apologise.

Episode 07 – I Would Have Liked A Garden

Transcript coming soon.

Content warnings: a host swears once, at about 42:30. Discussions about dealing with lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recommendations

Wikipedia page for the Broken Record Campaign.

A couple of contemporary versions of classic hymns, mentioned in the episode:

Song Exploder episode on REM’s Losing My Religion (requires Netflix subscription). Or view a short clip below.

Glen’s seasonal Spotify playlists: Summer Fruits, Autumn Days, Winter Wishes, Spring Onions.

Albums Discussed in this Episode

1. Glen’s choice: Gomez – Bring it On (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).
2. James’ choice: Lauren Daigle – Look Up Child (Apple Music | Spotify | YouTube).

Countdowns So Far

You can also see how we rank each other’s albums here. Note that this is up to and including the latest published episode, so will contain spoilers if you are not up-to-date.

Rank	James	Glen
#50	Tim Minchin – Matilda, the Musical	Horse the Band – R. Borlax
#49	The London Symphony Orchestra – Classic Rock	Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
#48	Remy Zero – The Golden Hum	Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
#47	Harry Secombe – Bless This House	Nick Drake – Pink Moon
#46	Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come a Long Way Baby	The Reindeer Section – Son of Evil Reindeer
#45	Dr Dre – 2001	Elbow – Asleep in the Back
#44	Lauren Daigle – Look Up Child	Gomez – Bring it On

Our current theme is the intro to Bored by Nympheas.