Can I Pod With Madness

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20 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Culture Show talks to a perpetually moving Alan Moore, presumably under sufferance given it's around the film version of V For Vendetta that he stopped working with DC Comics over. www.youtube.com/watc...

Remember when everyone was playing Blue Prince? Did anyone ever complete that game?

This is a conspiracy theory I can get into

As a kid I found this very disturbing- now I just think yeah she looks really good. Goth princess!

I'm convinced this movie invented psychedelia

Not for nothing but Adrian Smith Project - ASP - a totally metal venomous reptile, would be a much better name than Adrian Smith and Project - ASAP - a thing you write on a post it note in your shit office job

This is the niche engagement we're here for

I once walked past Jarvis Cocker - looking extremely Jarvis- in the street in Sheffield. Didn't talk to him though so your story is better.

A photo of a woman holding wine, embellished with some blue and white drawing. Test reads: Good things of the week :-) Here are my delights of the week. Bing bong. Caption reads: Me with my yummy wine

Text reads: Book of the week: I read Carrie by Stephen King. Where the movie portrays Carrie's powers as more of an impulsive gut reaction to her mistreatment, the book gives her an increasingly sinister edge as we hear her thoughts invade people's minds and alter their feelings in more insidious and frightening ways. I also really love the way its arranged in reports, books, and interviews spliced into the narrative as it unfolds. You get the sense that this was, very much, a national event. One outlet describes the tragedy as the “Maine Holocaust” which is amazingly sensationalist. It also makes me think about X-Men and the sociopolitical arguments put forth for excluding them from society, because yeah, Magneto would be Carrie's biggest supporter, I'm sure. Are all those with telekenetic powers bound for murderous destruction? The book leaves this unclear. And I love that.

Text reads: Movie of the week: Forbidden Games (1952) dir. René Clément A beautiful, astonishingly funny and HARROWING movie about two little children playing and having fun during the war. The film concerns a sort of insane childlike inability to fully understand and come to terms with death. Religious rituals surrounding death are a central focus, and are ceaselessly mocked by the movie, which puts us firmly inside the perspective of its child protagonists, fanciful makers of their own mangled traditions. The adults follow their social rules to soothe themselves while they cope with war's decimation of their surroundings, while the children retreat into their own unhinged and isolated way of dealing with it all through imaginative play. It's so good and silly and sad.

Text reads: Album of the week: Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time (1985) So, Simple Minds are, of course, known for THE hit and iconic funeral song (RIP to my grandma, we did play it at her funeral tbh), 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', which is on this album. That's a phenomenal tune, but the whole album is huge. There's a lot of big, bold religious imagery, and vague hints of gospel influence, but mostly it's a wide-open, tasty stadium album with wonderfully resonant percussion and some really rich, jangling piano throughout. There's the sense of a crane sweeping around a mountain to this for me, but maybe tht 's just because of the Alive and Kicking music video, hill-focused as it was. Perfect album for going insane on an exercise bike, I think.

Stuff that rocks.

Mel B- I Want You Back featuring Missy Elliot. The only chart hit I can think of that references Deep Impact.

Emma (Bunton) - Crickets Sing for Anamaria. A good one for Pointless, this one, most people have forgotten that time Baby Spice decided she was Astrud Gilberto.

Melanie C- I Turn To You. Envelope and Stick's fave "goes dance".

True Steppers and Dane Bowers featuring Victoria Beckham- Out of your Mind. Iirc this was pipped to the number one spot by Sophie Ellis-Bextor with that song that was written by the guy in the dress from Mud.

Typical for us, when we're supposed to be talking about Cirith Ungol and Onslaught, we got sidetracked and talked about The Spice Girls solo jamz on the latest podcast. Those lasses were good they should've done some stuff together!
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Wasted Years ad from Kerrang.

News about Wasted Years' release. Also Madam X. And some other stuff.

Short Kutz- singles reviews including Wasted Years TL;DR they like it.

My version of the WY cover, which, it has to be said, isn't exactly as iconic as the Maiden album covers but there's no fuckin way I'm trying to do the Somewhere in Time cover.

Wasted Years by 'ver Maiden- one of their rockingest jams, or just the same as all their other stuff? We disagreed, but I was at least able to do a version of the cover for the podcast art- sweet Maiden font and the HELLA FUTURISTIC digital font.

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I feel like I'm just going to use this photo for everything going forward

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Love and Let Die. Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche by John Higgs.

Right? His book on The Beatles and James Bond is really good too

The KLF Justified and Ancient.

The KLF Chill Out.

John Higgs' KLF book.

On the latest pod we talk a lot about The KLF, Justified and Ancient, Chill Out, and John Higgs' book. We also set fire to all the money we've made from this podcast.

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Winifred Atwell would like a word.

To be fair I don't expect Vernon Kaye to be knowledgeable about... well, anything.

Keith Emerson from the end credits of the Prog Rock episode of "Rock Family Trees". He's supposed to be sitting stock still while a little info card plays over the top of his image. Instead, he's playing with a parrot.

Dug out my copies of "Rock Family Trees" last night. I feel a rewatch coming on. Always delighted to note who can't handle the Police Squad sit-stock-still-like-it's-a-freeze-frame endings. Guess Keith didn't get the memo.

Any podcast with an extended discussion of Hey Matthew is all right by me.

Kerrang 127 (Aug 1986) cover- Aerosmith & Run DMC It's a Rap!

Mayhem news page including Iron Maiden's new single Wasted Years and something about Madam X.

Rapping Yarns. Covering Run DMC certainly brought out Kerrang's punning side.

Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steve Tyler in rocking out/ass shakin' poses.

This Rap Rock thing might just take off. If that take's not hot enough for you we've also got extended investigations into The KLF, Spice Girls solo jams, and the precise dimensions of the Statue of Liberty's head.
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Podcast art that's meant to look like Maiden's Wasted Years single, which is a bit niche, if I'm honest, and we don't even talk about Maiden that much but I've committed to the bit.

Our new episode which is hella futuristic is out tomorrow but in the meantime check out our old shit
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We just watched Jumanji and for a moment you hear Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull, which is all well and good, but Bungle in the Jungle was right there!

Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

I think we watched it in General Studies class. No idea why. At the end one girl asked "was that a true story?"

Does Threads count?

Amazing work!

Way too many brilliant responses to this.

"All I Want is Everything" by Jellyfish, by the way.

this is where I ask the tough questions

If someone were to cover Boys of Summer today, what band would they slot into the Grateful Dead/Black Flag spot on the Cadillac? Would it even still be a Cadillac?

Kerrang 233, Apr 89. Iommi on the cover.

Rekordz: review of the Cult Sonic Temple although if you squint the page header and headline look like the Monkees logo, you know, the guitar one.

Kommunication.

Black Sabbath the Tony Martin version. We don't talk about this.

New Pod, New Sabbath! Although we mostly talk about Lawnmower Deth, hamsters and drumming for The Cult.
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