Unsung Podcast

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Covermount Mixtape: Radio Kerrang! Vol. 6 (Side A) w/ Grant Donaldson (Moni Jitchell) - 315

This week Grant Donaldson joins us to talk about this Kerrang! covermount CD that came out during the hey day of nu metal. Turns out Grant is quite unfamiliar with nu metal so this was a real fun episode. In side A we talk about the first half of this CD, which includes the talents of Jerry Cantrell, Everclear, Bad Religion, Psycore and One Minutes Silence. It's all downhill after that, which you'll hear in the next episode...

The Jingle-Bangers and Adver-tunes Mixtape (Side B) - 314

We break down the usage of music in ads into four categories: best original ad jingles and songs, songs made famous by adverts, famous songs best appropriated, songs ruined by ads. We also hear from our listeners on their favourite and least favourite tunes in adverts.

The Jingle-Bangers and Adver-tunes Mixtape (Side A) - 313

Given the sheer amount of work we've done lately on the pod, we thought we'd do something a little easy and do an episode on music in advertising. Except, it actually turned out to NOT be that easy because, well, this is a pretty fascinating topic. In part one we talk about the history of music in advertising and pick a couple of examples.

Tanz, Grosny, Tanz by Yacøpsæ (Side B) with Joe McGlynn from Man Must Die, Go Down Fighting and the Shit You May Not Have Seen Podcast - 312

It's time to get really grindy and real with the band's more recent material, which is very fast, brutal and dark. It's a bracing but also fun. This band have a lot of songs but it's all quite short, so you can really batter through their discography in short order. Joe also gives us some of his thoughts on the band and then we get to the nexus.

Tanz, Grosny, Tanz by Yacøpsæ (Side A) with Joe McGlynn from Man Must Die, Go Down Fighting and the Shit You May Not Have Seen Podcast - 311

There's a fair chance you haven't heard of Yacøpsæ before unless you're very much in tune with DIY grind/powerviolence. One of the things we started this podcast to do was to shine a light on great bands were think are truly unsung. This band are one such example of that. They're very underground, and are very, very, very brutal. In part one we talk about the squat scene, the definition of grindcore, how it differs from powerviolence and dive into their large, unwieldy catalogue. As this is a genre we're mostly unfamiliar with, we brought in the expertise of Joe McGlynn, who you may remember from our Carcass episodes. He was in a band called Man Must Die, now in a cool hardcore band called Go Down Fighting, and is a host of Shit You May Not Have Seen podcast. Things get very weegie here too, so be prepared for some incomprehensible Glaswegian accents.

Radical Romantics by Fever Ray (Side B) - 310

And to wrap up our two episodes on Fever Ray we talk about Plunge before Chris goes deep on why their new album, Radical Romantics, is the best thing they've yet done.

Radical Romantics by Fever Ray (Side A) - 309

When we suggested doing Fever Ray after our episode on The Knife's Shaking the Habitual back in Sept 2019, this album didn't even exist. Indeed, Radical Romantics now takes the title of the most recent album covered on Unsung. Back in 2019 Chris would have picked their debut album but as you can see, that's now longer the album he thinks is the best... But before we get to that, in Side A we talk about the history of Fever Ray, a little bit about Karin themselves, and their first album.

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side C) - 308

THE CONCLUSION. Kyle's still alive. Barely. In side C we get to the point of this whole sorry triumvirate of episodes: to discuss Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. And the nexus. Of course.

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side B) - 307

Kyle's still with us in this episode, but he's dreaming about taking a bath. Which we kept him from. Sorry. Sadly, there was work to do. And that work is to continue our chat about Bright Eyes' back catalogue, covering everything from Fevers and Mirrors to Down In the Weeds, Where the World One Was.

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side A) - 306

This week we're joined by Kyle Wood, who creates music under the name of Lovers Turn to Monsters. He has chosen Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes, claiming rather boldly, that it's amongst the band's best work. Which many fans would no doubt disagree with. In side A we talk a wee bit about Conor Oberst, his history, the pre-Bright Eyes moments and the first two Bright Eyes albums.

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