Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve?
· 54 min · Episode 855
Episode Do all panned albums end up loved? And what’s the most significant record sleeve?
Deck the halls with cheese and Bolly! … and a dish of the usual rock and roll distraction which this week throws the following logs on the fire …
… the greatest Xmas single ever?
… Metal Machine Music, Cut the Crap, Two Sides of the Moon … can panned records ever be rehabilitated?
… how Roxy Music invented ‘rock brand-value’ and turned it into pictures
… Joe Ely and the romance of songs about the American landscape
… Rob Reiner and why that scene in When Harry Met Sally is the greatest marriage of people and ideas
… the real-life moment that inspired Spinal Tap
… “most American pop music is about geography”
… "I keep my fingernails long so they click when I play the piano"
… Jordan Carl Wheeler Davis? Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr? Mystery acts playing Wembley Arena
… the British think America is “fabulous and otherworldly”. Americans think Britain is “quaint”
… plus the magnificent McGarrigles’ Christmas Hour, farewell Hofner and we name the Finnegan’s Wake of rock music!
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