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Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos! w/ David Scott from Moni Jitchell (Side B) - 339

David Scott from Moni Jitchell joins us again this week as we round off our deep dive into the discography of Los Campesinos! We being picking up where we left off last week; in the midst of running through the band's discography. Mark then comes clean and says he actually took notes on the wrong album, before we all go down the rabbit hole of figuring out of Romance is Boring and/or Los Campesinos! are unsung. A small reminder that if you want to support the podcast you can do so via our Patreon. Not only will you get episodes early, you also get access to our Facebook group (aye we know it’s boomer shit, but we’ve yet to find a better way of mass communication) and you can have some influence on what we cover on the show. There’s also the option of our higher tier, the record club, where your money will go towards supporting independent artists that we think are truly unsung. If you want to learn more about Moni Jitchell, their most recent release is called Unreal, and you can get it here.

Romance is Boring by Los Campesinos! w/ David Scott from Moni Jitchell (Side A) - 338

Guest time! In the first of two episodes we chat with David Scott from the band Moni Jitchell about Los Campesinos! and their third album Romance is Boring. In part one we go into a lengthy deep dive around twee pop, the band’s history and then begin to look closely at their discography, using the band’s own ranking of their first five albums as a means navigation. A small reminder that if you want to support the podcast you can do so via our Patreon. Not only will you get episodes early, you also get access to our Facebook group (aye we know it’s boomer shit, but we’ve yet to find a better way of mass communication) and you can have some influence on what we cover on the show. There’s also the option of our higher tier, the record club, where your money will go towards supporting independent artists that we think are truly unsung. If you want to learn more about Moni Jitchell, their most recent release is called Unreal, and you can get it here.

Act II: The Father of Death by The Protomen - 337

We've briefly touched on geek rock in the past - Weezer and Laeto spring to mind - but never in any detail. That all changes this week as we look at the genre through the lens of The Protomen. We also chat extensively about the band, their discography and their frankly brilliant homage to 80s rock.

The Crow: Original Soundtrack (Side B) - 336

Last week we spoke about the music of the sequels to The Crow (1994). We also spoke about the new crow film (The Crow (2024)), but we kind of cut it a little short because we didn't talk about the music of the new film. We do that this week before we dive headlong into the original soundtrack of the very first film in The Crow franchise. Not sure I can find a way to fit "The Crow" into this little blurb about our new episode on The Crow. So please enjoy this episode where we talk about the music from the 1994 film The Crow

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A little update on what's in store for the future of this podcast.

The Music of The Crow (Side A) - 335

Another episode where we're taking direct inspiration from something that we mentioned in an early show, we've decided to do two whole bloody episodes on the music of The Crow film franchise. In episode one we talk about the music from the very poor sequels to the original film: City of Angels and Salvation. Surprisingly, even though the movies themselves are fairly terrible, the soundtracks are actually really good! So we dedicate a bit of time to those two. We also talk about the place of The Crow in the wider pop cultural landscape, wondering whether it really was as popular as we seem to remember it was (subcultures are weird) before we talk about the brand new reboot The Crow. Which is... well, it's certainly not the worst of The Crow films, but that's not a high bar to clear... Fancy showing us some love? You can subscribe to the pod for as little as £4 per month on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/unsungpod

Face of Collapse by Dazzling Killmen - 334

Usually, we like to space things out. You may have noticed that over the years, we'll do a metal album one week, then perhaps change it up with electro or something else. So, for us to do two post-hardcore/noise rock(ish) records so close together is a bit unheard of. But hey, what's the point of having a set of rules if you don't break them occasionally? We've been doing this show for a ridiculously long time. Too long, some might say. In those six and a half years (give or take a few months), we've managed to rack up a decent amount of subscribers. For some of our longest-standing subscribers, we give them the opportunity to pick a record for us to cover. This week, Todd Khul chose Face of Collapse by the Dazzling Killmen. We welcomed this choice, especially since it's a band Chris has also wanted to tackle for a while. So this week, we're diving deep into their short discography and offering some insights into their equally short career. Fancy showing us some love? You can subscribe to the pod for as little as £4 per month on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/unsungpod

Sound is a Pound #8 (Highly Evolved by The Vines and Planet Claire by The B-52's) - 333

Sound is a pound is always good fun. You'd be amazed what you can pick up for a quid in a charity shop. It's been about 18 months since our last one of these and frankly, we'd forgotten what albums we'd "gifted" each other at the end of the last episode. So Mark decided to pick two that he'd bought for Chris: Planet Claire by The B-52's (a strange compilation what was not released by the band's label, Warner Brothers) and Highly Evolved by The Vines. There's some surprises in this episode. There's also somethings that won't be surprising at all to long time fans. We'll leave you to figure out which is which...

Hide the Kitchen Knives by The Paper Chase - 332

John Congleton is a great producer, and as it turns out, also a great musician. The Paper Chase were, for many years, his only musical project and even as his star began to rise as a producer, he was still churning out unsettling, chromatic, occasionally catchy, often nasty music. Often described as a combination of avant-garde jazz, indie and punk, the band tick all of those boxes and much more. This week we're talking about their second album, Hide the Kitchen Knives which helpfully/frustratingly is only available on YouTube. An album so twisted that it actually gave Mark nightmares. We also talk about the band's discography at large and chat about why some albums never seem to make it to streaming platforms.

Unsong: Animal Nitrate by Suede - 331

Long terms fans of the show will know that we've spent altogether far too much time talking about Britpop. And the bad news is that it looks like it's ABOUT BECOME ALL ANYONE TALKS ABOUT when Oasis announce their reunion. We recorded this episode before those rumours started to creep out. Funny how these things happen. Anyway, Mark fell into a Suede hole (sounds quite comfy, when you put it like that) after our episode on Baader Meinhof/Luke Haines and this lead to two realisations: 1) there's no way we could call Suede (or this song, really) unsung, and 2) we don't think they have an album solid enough to carry a full episode. This song though? It's a banger. Pure class. And we really wanted to talk about it. So we bent the rules a little.

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