Heads Hands And Feet

Very good. Third from right Chas Hodges out of Chas and Dave.

what about badfinger? I can't live, if living is without badfinger.

Norah Jones side project.

Third Ear Band?

Stiff Little Fingers was what I came up with during the moment of calm reflective silence mid-podcast.

Collapsed Lung
The Bad Livers
Skin
The Nerves
Jawbone

Errr... the Cheeky Girls?

No, didn't think so.

Did Blue Oyster Cult have an offshoot called Soft White Underbelly? As in UK males in shirts-off horror as soon as the sun emerges for more than 5 minutes...

The Eyes

And didn't Crosby & Stills go by the name Frozen Noses until Nash joined up?

Belly? Star is a good album.

Haven't listened to the 'cast yet, so sorry if they've already been mentioned.

Sorry.

They asked this on Shooting Stars once and Stephen Fry replied "Urethra Franklin".

Don't know where you recorded it this week, but it's a huge improvement. I could listen to it in the car, and everything. Which, frankly, is the least embarrassing place if you're going to make me laugh that much.

Revolting Cocks?

Fanny

Yes much better sound this week. In defence of Matt it is not a problem with the room or the engineer/producer - it is what is known in IT circles as a PICNIK problem - Problem In Chair Not In Kit - the "talent" need to stay on the mic. DH is always audible. Kate started OK, moved away from the mic after 5 minutes and almost disappeared then came back and was really clear for a few seconds then wandered away again but not so far, Mark started OK then moved away. If you all stay reasonably close to the mic it will be fine. If you don't, you'll disappear. V simple. George Martin wouldn't be able to solve an indistinct vocal where Paul or John periodically wandered away from the mic.

But that aside, top 'cast.

...The Nipple Erectors

Is that referring to any part of a body that may have an engorging effect on the nipple? If not, it isn't valid. Explain yourself, Springy.
(Unless it is valid, cos I too have yet to listen to the podcast, but that never got in the way of Word opinion, eh?!)

...from, initially, the blog on the Black Crowes Maxim review that led to the podcast banter.
(Convincing or what!)

Lungleg

I presume Mark's tirade against Steve Harley means he‘s not a fan of Cock Knee Rebel.

I'll get my coat.

Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Talking Heads and er...The Members?

The Shins? And who can forget Legs & Co?

But no-one's mentioned To(e)To(e)

CeCe Peniston...

blossom toes , dead fingers talk , nailbomb , skin , legs larry smith ( does he count ? ) , 4skins , hotlegs , spineshank , braindonor , bat for lashes ( ? ) , spooky tooth ...I'd better go.

if memory serves me correctly, Colin Vearncombe of 'Black' fame used to be in a band called The Epileptic Tits!

Sting?

Roddy wo(o)mb(le), Radiohead, fatback band, The Cardiacs, Heart, nine inch nails, Robert Palm (er), sorry about a few of these. oh and have the Faces come up. No sole muisc yet?

The Twats!

...of writing. I even get paid for it now and again, and, without doubt, the most ball-achingly horrid experience I've ever had doing this job was reviewing a CD. Never again. Unless you're really stuck, Kate...

...if this is the new, bar-raising standard, then morning recordings are the way ahead.

Lips Inc., Bright Eyes, Smash Mouth.

Pushing it slightly: Steeleye Span, Britney Spears, Groove Armada, and Shelia Chandra

a very funny podcast.

...I'll take Blood, Sweat and Tears

Little Feat?

Bad Brains

Apologies if this has appered in the podcast but Radcliffe and Maconie have just played Elbow. . . .

Here's a review from someone who has heard it.

The bassist for Uncle Earl on their UK tour last year was Laura Cortese. Her album "Even the lost creek" is well worth checking out.... It's been prety much glues into my CD player since I got it about a year ago. http://cdbaby.com/cd/cortese2

http://www.myspace.com/lauracortese

A**L C**t.

Sorry.

A nervous wait overnight and a laborious scroll down the list, but still able to make my (f'nar f'nar) contribution.....The Slits

What's happened to the HORA?

Eyeless in Gaza.

Myself and Richard Herring do our podcast using the built-in mic on his laptop. We've done three now and only just discovered where the mic actually is.

Don't go changing to try to please us. We love the Word podcast just the way it is.

I know it probably sounds blasé and taking a privileged position for granted, but the podcast discussion about reviewing etc ruining the music is spot on. For years I have had to cover dozens of great gigs but because I have been writing about them it has utterly destroyed the magic. Sure, you might get in for free but from the opening bars onwards, I have invariably been thrown into a blind panic thinking ‘bollocks, I have to begin filing my copy by the fourth/fifth/sixth song' - the rest of the show then blurs into nothingness as I try to collect thoughts, push words across a notepad and remember little but the crucial facts with which to kick off the intro. Then there are at least 20 minutes of the gig spent on the phone to copytakers trying to spell out song names etc. What should have been magical shows - such as the Stones and U2's back to basics shows at the Astoria, Macca opening his world tour in Paris - have been instantly forgotten because they became work tasks rather than gigs for pleasure (although I'm not convinced anything would have made that Stones gig pleasurable). I would say the only shows I have actually enjoyed over the past decade were where I had no obligation to write anything. And paying for tickets has generally had the effect of making them even more enjoyable (record company PRs think: "Now there's a saving on the guest list ….").

Enjoyed this weeks podcast, the word "ubiquitous" not uttered once!

We were at least treated to a "my point is this" from David "My point is this" Hepworth. This is a good thing, I think. They don't happen every week but when they do there's something afoot...

The Tubes

Throbbing Gristle count?

The Toes (don't know nowt about about them but I'm sure they exist).

Pacific Eardrum, the band the highly talented Isaac Guillory used to be in.

Barefoot Jerry - remember that ghastly album cover with all the band thus unshod, presenting the spectacle of seven or eight pairs of deeply unattractive male "plates"?

Hope the Blockheads haven't been mentioned, (Cr)ass who recorded an album called Penis Envy, and Crazyhead

Veruca Salt.

Usual high drollery, team.
Singing double bassists: check out John Lester, a solo singer-songwriter whose instrument is double bass. On tour with Gretchen Peters some years back. Thru' real time tape loop double tracking builds up quite a wall of sound. Good songs too.

.... "Bush" was massive but "The Dickies" never managed to penetrate it.

Oh, and is "Shaft" the missing link between "The Test Icicles" and "The Four Skins"?

I've gone too far, haven't I, and without even mentioning "Bum Gravy".

Can we have it dropped in favour of tales of Mark Ellen's crap jobs please? The story of the Hampshire finger-lickin'-good Hell's Angels had me in tears. More please.

Head?

Johnny Morris ate my rhino...OO AAH (repeat to fade)

...that Mark Ellen's splendid gag about miners in make-up being kohl-eyed was tragically abandoned and trudged away, unloved and ignored, when lost in the early- morning-changed-up-hilarity of last week's 'cast.
Chang's the energy drink you're pushing, right?

Wet Willie
Napalm Death
Spiritualized
Pogue Mahone (no, I don't know which one)
The Teardrop Explodes?

sorry must go, a chap has just brought round a barrel he needs scraping