Tag: Music

  • Episode 21 – #30 – Horses Are Really Expensive

    Episode 21 – #30 – Horses Are Really Expensive

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. We have a new theme tune, and James and Glen discuss iconic moments, iconic fashions, video game frustrations, the final resting place of Disney Princesses, and two albums.

  • Episode 20.5 – Live Albums Special – Doors to Other Places

    Episode 20.5 – Live Albums Special – Doors to Other Places

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

  • Episode 20 – #31 – Ten Thousand Guitars

    Episode 20 – #31 – Ten Thousand Guitars

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. James struggles through another heavy album, and Glen tries to keep the episode length down to adhere to manufacturing restrictions.

  • Episode 19 – #32 – More Satisfied than Others

    Episode 19 – #32 – More Satisfied than Others

    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, Glen drops some hot music theory and searches for a klaxon sound effect, and James asks: “why?”

  • Episode 18 – #33 – Another Gadget in the Kitchen

    Episode 18 – #33 – Another Gadget in the Kitchen

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. Would you be a better wrestler or darts player? This one came out longer than planned, but with good reason. We discuss childbirth, Christmas, speeding, hot chocolate, the ins-and-outs of comedy and free…

  • Episode 17 – #34 – Delayed Teenage Angst

    Episode 17 – #34 – Delayed Teenage Angst

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. When is a street corner not the street corner it appears to be? How big is Yorkshire? What does the world’s greatest ever squash player have to do with any of this? What…

  • Episode 16 – #35 – A Girl Named Keith

    Episode 16 – #35 – A Girl Named Keith

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. When is a street corner not the street corner it appears to be? How big is Yorkshire? What does the world’s greatest ever squash player have to do with any of this? What…

  • Episode 15 – #36 – I Don’t Have that Kind of Power

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. We start a new year with a special award for James, and – as expected – talk about two albums. One, critically considered one of the best of its decade, the other might…

  • Episode 14 – #37 – Distracted by Four Men in their Seventies

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. Two giants of music history clash in this episode, and one host fails to complete their homework on time. We give mentions to some of our favourite YouTubers, discuss some niche anatomy, and…

  • Episode 13.5 – Christmas Special – Bells on a Stick

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. It’s Christmas, and we fulfil seasonal obligation (or, as James would have it, celebrate the most wonderful time of the year) by talking about six Christmas songs.

  • Episode 13 – #38 – My Favourite Fictional US President

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. This episode, we suffer from a short recording turnaround, and would both have liked longer than the four days we had with these albums. We discuss the worst band names in history, drop…

  • Episode 12 – #39 – I Was Very Moist

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. On with the countdown, with – as is becoming usual – two very different albums. We also take some time to examine the top fifty albums of all time, according to sales numbers.…

  • Episode 11 – #40 – No One Goes Shopping Any More

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. We get into the top forty, bringing very different albums to the discussion. Episōdo o o tanoshimi kudasai!

  • Episode 10.5 – 1st Albums Special – Quality Assurance Purposes

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. Hotdog. Jumping frog. Albuquerque. A break from the countdown as we share and examine the first albums that we owned. We didn’t choose these albums; they chose us.

  • Episode 10 – #41 – That’s a Cleaning Spray

    Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums. With the Rumours Coefficient at 10, James and Glen go to war, pulling out the Most Opposite albums so far. Will either of us survive?