Brand new, caffeine-boosted, ante-meridian podcast in which we fall out - *badly*
Posted by David Hepworth on 3 March 2008 - 6:19pm.
New podcast up now during which, in a cheap bid for popularity, Mark Ellen deliberately misrepresents my views on the Black Crowes album review to-do and talks about the time he reviewed the Jefferson Starship gig that never was, discusses things that aren't as exciting as they once were and bands named after body parts while new girl Kate Mossman talks about life in charge of the reviews cupboard and tells a joke about the circus.
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Bands named after body parts
Heads Hands And Feet
Hooray!
Very good. Third from right Chas Hodges out of Chas and Dave.
Bat For Lashes
Coming late to this one...
Body parts
what about badfinger? I can't live, if living is without badfinger.
The Little Willies
Norah Jones side project.
And another
Third Ear Band?
And another
Stiff Little Fingers was what I came up with during the moment of calm reflective silence mid-podcast.
And more...
Collapsed Lung
The Bad Livers
Skin
The Nerves
Jawbone
Errr... the Cheeky Girls?
No, didn't think so.
And possibly
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...
More
The Eyes
And didn't Crosby & Stills go by the name Frozen Noses until Nash joined up?
What about
Belly? Star is a good album.
Haven't listened to the 'cast yet, so sorry if they've already been mentioned.
Wild Willy Barrett?
Sorry.
They asked this on Shooting Stars once and Stephen Fry replied "Urethra Franklin".
Sounds good
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.
If we're heading south of the waist...
Revolting Cocks?
Weren't they. . .
originally a three-piece?
And let's not forget
Fanny
Sound much better
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.
Now that I like...
Haven't heard it before, but will be used at every available opportunity.
And yes - not having the speakers on cans, and not being in a separate room (and therefore not being able to talk to them on talkback) is just one of the differences between the brave new world of podcasting and other types of speech audio production...
Wouldn't have it any other way. Errr.....
How about
attaching a bit of string to each speaker and the mic so they can't wander off? Desperate time call for etc etc. Keep up the good work!
Let's name names
Let's face it, the main audio problem with this podcast is Mark Ellen who's either hurting my ears with his barking mad laugh, or else (apparently) hiding round a corner from the mic. The other week he was so quiet while telling his anecdote about Lucinda Williams, that I had to crane my neck towards the car stereo while driving. This isn't safe, and I only attempted the manoeuvre because I was in East Suffolk where only about six people live, but there could have been an incident with livestock.
It strikes me that Producer Matt doesn't need better equipment, he just needs a bloody big stick with which to poke Mr Ellen.
I remember
I remember that one - I had the same prob - but ME is incredibly funny so we wouldn't want to hit him too hard - the comment about needing a wheelbarrow load of NZ dollars to buy a mint Aero at the corner shop had me in stitches!
Shane MacGowan's old band...
...The Nipple Erectors
Um....
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?!)
A bit like
...reviewing albums you haven't actually heard? (Listen to the 'cast)...
And an ongoing theme across the threads..
...from, initially, the blog on the Black Crowes Maxim review that led to the podcast banter.
(Convincing or what!)
A contender for both worst name and also body part
Lungleg
I presume Mark's tirade
I presume Mark's tirade against Steve Harley means he‘s not a fan of Cock Knee Rebel.
I'll get my coat.
Some more..
Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Talking Heads and er...The Members?
Isn't there a band called
The Shins? And who can forget Legs & Co?
Excuse the pun
But no-one's mentioned To(e)To(e)
and not forgetting
CeCe Peniston...
...and there's more...
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.
Also
if memory serves me correctly, Colin Vearncombe of 'Black' fame used to be in a band called The Epileptic Tits!
Colin Vearncombe
The band played a handful of gigs as the Tits before Colin joined
I think the name changed to The Tilt before going back on stage
Do insect body parts count??
Sting?
Wings!
Thorax! The Compound Eyes!
tons of pun fun!
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?
Dont forget
The Twats!
I do a bit...
...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...
By the way...
...if this is the new, bar-raising standard, then morning recordings are the way ahead.
Most have been done I think but...
Lips Inc., Bright Eyes, Smash Mouth.
Pushing it slightly: Steeleye Span, Britney Spears, Groove Armada, and Shelia Chandra
That was
a very funny podcast.
And if we're moving on to bodily fluids...
...I'll take Blood, Sweat and Tears
Am I allowed
Little Feat?
I hope so
It was my first thought.
If disallowed, then we need the Aussie improvisers at length: The Necks.
Another one...
Bad Brains
Apologies if this has
Apologies if this has appered in the podcast but Radcliffe and Maconie have just played Elbow. . . .
Nope,
Elbow, good shout. Suprised it didn't come up in the podcast.
Shurely shome mishtake
Wasn't it a discussion about Elbow that kicked the whole thing off?
Black Crowes
Here's a review from someone who has heard it.
Singing double bassists...
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
Does this count?
A**L C**t.
Sorry.
Phew!
A nervous wait overnight and a laborious scroll down the list, but still able to make my (f'nar f'nar) contribution.....The Slits
In other news
What's happened to the HORA?
It was there.
It was just mainly concerned with our friends in a certain Motorcycle Club...
body part AND place name....the next level
Eyeless in Gaza.
Recording the room
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 listened to your podcast
Andrew; all 3. Very funny. And yes, enviable sound.
Reviewing: a chore
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 ….").
one would have thought
that the Stones in the Astoria would have been very special. Without trying to go massively off thread-topic...what was the problem?
It was possibly ...
... a matter of unrealistic expectations on my part. I'd not actually seen the Stones before and was hoping for a trawl through the greats (a mistake I expect). From what I recall it was not a set of crowd-pleasers - seem to remember a large selection of soul covers. Jagger himself said they didn't know some of the songs well enough to do a good job of them.
Where's Dec?
eh?
Always...
...standing on the right.
Hole, Bush, Medicine Head, Nine Inch Nails, etc.
Enjoyed this weeks podcast, the word "ubiquitous" not uttered once!
You mean...
the ubiquitous "ubiquitous"?
Not so ubiquitous but...
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...
eh...
The Tubes
Does...
Throbbing Gristle count?
Don't think anyone's mentioned...
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"?
Great podcast, thanks to all concerned
Hope the Blockheads haven't been mentioned, (Cr)ass who recorded an album called Penis Envy, and Crazyhead
I'm pretty pleased with this one...
Veruca Salt.
Just finally listened to it.
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.
Don't forget the Brits in America where ....
.... "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".
Re: HORA
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.
..and what about..
Head?
Johnny Morris ate my rhino...OO AAH (repeat to fade)
Just remembered...
...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?
have we done...
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