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Recorded live at Glee Club during the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, the boys end Johnny Marrch with a look back at The Smiths' 1985 sophmore album. Enjoy!

The boys wrap up the year with 10 to 6 of their favourite albums of the year. Enjoy!

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The boys listen to Roberta Flacks powerful debut

In less than five years, Diana Ross went from living in the Frederick Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit to being the jewel in Motown’s crown as the lead singer of the only female band to match the Beatles in terms of international popularity. As well as songs written by her boyfriend (and Motown president) Berry Gordy like the suspiciously scrumptious Buttered Popcorn, this two-and-a-half-hour long mega-hitlist covers the entire golden year period between their first hit and Ross’s split from the band to become a superstar soul diva. It’s also the 452nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes from the bais on everything from sliced bread to “x and the y’s” bands, plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, plus another riveting edition of The Bette Midler Factor. Enjoy!

Trent Reznor’s debut album is a throbbing slab of horny midwestern industrial rock, halfway between the sexual dancefloor electronicism of Depeche Mode and the involuntarily celebate roar that would define American alternative rock in the nineties. Between the pitch perfect sadomasochism of opening track “Head Like A Hole” and the whining balladeering in “Something I Can Never Have”, Pretty Hate Machine predicted the sad, angry and horny decade to come, while setting up a career that would find Reznor covered by Johnny Cash, as well as soundtracking projects as diverse as first-person shooters and Pixar films. It’s also the 453rd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from Soul, Quake II, Doom, Marilyn Manson, having sex with the devil, and whether or not Trent Reznor was a real janitor or not. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Quiz, the Bette Middler factor, and all that jazz. Enjoy!

British music journalists called the experimental wave of psychedelic rock that came out of West Germany in the late sixties and early seventies “krautrock”. Somewhere between the absurdist dissonant drone collages of Amon Duul and the worldbeating robot-pop of Kraftwerk sits “Ege Bamyasi” by Can - an essential slice of futuristic freak-funk fronted by a nomadic Japanese wanderer and recorded in the derelict cinema that doubled as the band’s living space, that perfectly split the difference between commerce and freethinking utopian idealism.  It’s also the 454th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from motorik, Das Messer, BBC 4, vagabondism, Bauhaus furniture and the Velvet Underground. All that, plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, 

Bo Diddley transmuted the juba hambone beat into rock ‘n’ roll, inspired by blues legends like Howlin Wolf and then ruthlessly plagiarised and whitewashed by everybody from Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones to George Michael, The Smiths and Guns ‘N’ Roses. ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘Go Bo Diddley’ are his first and second albums, released in the late fifties and containing his biggest charting singles like the self-titled banger ‘Bo Diddley’.

They’re also, somehow, the 455th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from Robbie Williams, The Ed Sullivan Show, ZZ Topp, ‘I Want Candy’ and the big four of eighties funereal doom. All that plus a fruitless edition of Secret Posho and a scintillating incarnation of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Kicked out of his childhood home by his religious father for the hideous crime of listening to Jackie Wilson, Al Green was hustling in a bordello when he was discovered by the bandleader Willie Mitchell. He went on to be inaccurately described as the Last of The Great Soul Singers, and defined the Memphis soul sound of the early seventies with the ten steamy hot slabs of utilitarian jamming that comprise this Greatest Hits. It’s generally regarded as one of the best ‘best of’ records in the history of recorded music.

It’s also the 456th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring cool comments and white-hot takes on everything from the drumming of Al Jackson Jr., the pavlovian response of all Scottish comedians to ‘Reet Petite’ by Jackie Wilson, porridge-based bath attacks, and the non-goodness of religious music, to the accusation that Al Green once shoved his secretary through a glass door. All that plus Quizzz, Secret Posho, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Her powerful cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a global superstar, but when Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of The Pope during a musical performance on Saturday Night Live as a statement about child abuse within the Catholic Church, she became infamous. Abused by her family and by the nuns at the Magdelene Laundry she was sent to for shoplifting, she channeled the rage wrought by her tragic upbringing into a career of genre-pushing art that seamlessly melds the personal and political to great commercial and critical success. I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, released in 1990, is undoubtedly the epoch and apex of that acclaim.

It’s also the 457th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail did a deep dive on it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Irish passports, Joe Pesci, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, In Tua Nua, Ton Ton Macoute, U2, Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert at Madison Square Garden, and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus. All that, plus Secret Posho, as well as the first edition of brand new segment “Tattoo Woohoo or Tattoo Boohoo?” on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Born in a trailer park in rural Alabama, Jason Isbell was taught to play music by his family, then went on to become a guitarist and songwriter for the Southern rock band known as the Drive-By Truckers. However, the demon drink got the best of him and he lost both his band and his wife. After a pair of mediocre solo records, he gave up the booze and found love again before recording the modern classic of country-fried roots music that is 2013’s Southeastern. He dominated the Americana Music Awards that year, winning Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year due to Southeastern’s handcrafted cliche-defying song-writing artistry.

Southeastern by Jason Isbell is also the 458th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Liam’s own recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, the British rapper Plan B, pre-Civil War-era murderers, fatigue, the Budget IBIS in Portsmouth, and whether not liking the genre of ‘country music’ makes you a class traitor. All that and more on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor was a teenager when she released “Royals” as a single under the stagename Lorde. But where the Kiwi electro-popstar’s first album had a swaggering half-cut gait, her second record - 2017’s Melodrama - is an MDMA-inspired Greek tragedy of epic proportions: soaring ecstatic bassy highs and cripplingly self-criticising comedowns.

It’s also the 460th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Jack Antonoff of fun., Solar Power’s album cover, the Hunger Games franchise, synesthesia, the fear, Palestine, and the short stories of Ray Bradbury. All that, plus more installments of Secret Posho, Quiz, and the Bop Shop Test, on episode 41 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

After collaborating with Kanye West on his cold electro-pop record 808s & Heartbreak, Kid Cudi followed up his megahit debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi with this conceptual arena-rap sad-stoner magnum opus song-cycle. Beloved by the likes of Pete Davidson and Timothee Chalomet, this Common-narrated record went on to inspire a generation of Cudi devotees including Tyler The Creator, Travis Scott and Kevin Abstract with its frank emotional honesty.

It’s also the 459th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: the music video for the Crookers remix of Day ‘N’ Nite, working in a shoe shop, Kids See Ghosts, Achewood, the subject of mental health in hip-hop, and Henry Winkler. All that plus another installment of Secret Posho in the 42nd complete episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

The boys get festive as they dig into Canadian crooner Michael Buble's best-selling Christmas album Enjoy!

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2006 was a bad year for Justin Vernon. His band broke up, his girlfriend left him, and he came down with a serious bout of mononucleosis hepatitis - a severe form of herpes that leaves your lungs inflamed. He spent the winter getting steamboats in his father’s cabin in rural Winsconsin, where he wrote almost all of ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ on a laptop with a 1960s Silvertone guitar. It was a very successful record. Four years later he was an arena-level folk-star, collaborating with Kanye West and Nicki Minaj on the greatest hip-hop album of the 21st century, ‘My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy’.

For Emma, Forever Ago is the 461st Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: liquid acid, powerful loneliness, the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Zane Lowe, the origins of modern hipsterdom and auto-tuned Appalachian folk choirs. All that plus Secret Posho, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail continue their break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer the rest of the listener-submitted questions in the Christmas mailbag. Featuring questions from the likes of Eriq a.k.a. Farump, Rory M. Spence and Alan Hazlie, including: Are there any songs you listen to before you perform to get you in the zone? What’s your favourite album of 2021? And if Christopher could have a Funko-Pop of anyone who has appeared on the list so far, who would it be? Enjoy!

This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail take a break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer a smorgasbord of listener-submitted questions. Featuring questions from the likes of Jay Lafferty, Shaun “Panda” Nicholson and Thomas Craven, including: What’s your go-to happy album when you’re sad? If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be? And if there was a ‘The Best of Slimcock Bumblebee Balls” album, what would the tracklisting be? Enjoy!

In 1968, Gram Parsons was the piano-player for The Byrds. In 1973, he overdosed on morphine and alcohol and then his body was stolen by his friends and set on fire. Between those two points he recorded The Gilded Palace of Sin as the lead-singer of the Flying Burrito Brothers. The album barely made a dent commercially, but it’s cosmic gumbo of genres inspired hundreds of bands from the Eagles and Wilco, to Elvis Costello and Dinosaur Jr. It’s also the 462nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about Nudie suits, mexican food, twelve-string Richenbachers, Lucinda Williams, the citrus industry,  the Bop Shop test, Secret Posho, and much much more on episode 39 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Discovered by David Geffen after a controversial performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a 20-year-old Laura Nyro convinced Clive Davis to sign her to Columbia Records by inviting him to her flat, where she turned all the lights off and performed material from what would become ‘Eli and the Thirteenth Confession’. This darkly theatrical blue-eyed soul music made her and Geffen a millionaire. But by the age of 24, she retired from the public limelight and married a carpenter. Considered a “singer’s singer”, Laura Nyro was covered by the likes of Three Dog Night and Barbara Streisand, and inspired everybody from Elton John to Bette Middler. “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” is also the 462nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail enjoyed it, then talked about everything from what music they want played at their funeral to what their favourite musical is. All that and more, plus a jazz-trumpeteering edition of Secret Posho, on episode 38 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

The Isley Brothers (pronounced “eyes-ly”) had existed as a vocal doo-wop trio since the late 50’s, playing live with the pre-fame likes of Jimi Hendrix and Elton John. But in 1973 they collaborated with their two much younger brothers (and a controversial cousin) to update their sound from classic R&B to ultra-crisp funky soul. Their kid brother Ernie Isley joins the dots between Maggot Brain and Purple Rain with a laser-phaser guitar sound that rejuvenated old Isley standards and added an edge to cover versions of then-recent ‘plastic soul’ hits.  It’s also the 463rd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, then talked about everything from the identity of the lady in “That Lady” to the inappropriate narration of the So So Madam Show, as well as the Doobie Brothers, rolling r’s, Radiohead, car accidents, Wikipedia, and maths. All that and more, plus an underwhelming edition of Secret Posho, on episode 37 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

When Bob Marley died in 1981, Island Records wanted to repeat the success they found with the reggae star by marketing King Sunny Ade as ‘The African Bob Marley’. It didn’t really work, but the attempt brought Nigeria’s unique style of afrobeat - “juju music” - to the international spotlight. Compiled in 2003 by Shanachie Records, ‘The Best Of The Classic Years’ documents the pre-Island period of Ade’s career (1969-1974) before the watered down attempts at crossover success - lyrics entirely in Yoruba, seventeen-minute long jams, and rawer production.

It’s also the 464th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher and Liam use the record as a springboard to discuss everything from the Yoruban talking drum, William Onyeabor, Ebo Taylor, Ghanian highlife, the difference between a nightclub and a hotel in Nigeria, doing the washing-up, the musical tastes of the British royal family, and the filmography of Richard Gere. All that and more, plus an even-handed installment of Secret Posho, on episode 36 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

In 1964, Brian Wilson married a sixteen-year-old and smoked exactly one (1) marijuana cigarette before having a mental breakdown and deciding that the life of a rock star on-tour wasn’t for him - he holed up in L.A. to write and record music, while the rest of the band would travel around the world playing concerts. The next year, they released “The Beach Boys Today!” - a reimagining of the Beach Boys style with no surfer songs, as well as production and harmonies that triggered a creative rivalry with Wilson’s heroes The Beatles and famous murderer Phil Spector. It is also #465 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it on everything from paddleboarding, true surf culture, the cy clops, honking on bobo, Mike Love’s evil heart, and Del Shannon’s cover of “Do You Wanna Dance?” All that and more, plus a potentially surprising installment of Secret Posho, on episode 35 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Maxwell disappeared from the public eye in late 2001, seemingly disillusioned with the world after both the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the resignation of William Hague, the then-leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative party. But from 9/11 until just after Obama’s inauguration, the neo-soul chart-topper in exile toiled on 2009’s “BLACK summers night”, the first in a planned trilogy of nocturnal sex-gospel jams. “BLACK summers night” was Maxwell’s fourth consecutive multi-platinum album, and made it to #467 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it on everything under the moon, including shamed socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, D’Angelo, Sade, arancini balls, Derek Hodge, having sex, the Urban Hang Suite, John Mayer and main character syndrome. All that and more, plus yet another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on episode 34 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy

In 1977 Keith Richards was getting busted in Toronto for heroin possession while Mick Jagger was spending his nights in New York partying in Studio 54 with the rich and the famous. Meanwhile, music moved on without them as new rock bands emerged, as well as the divergent births of disco and punk. The Rolling Stones absconded to Paris over new year, where they fused their classic transatlantic white-boy blues rock with the hot new trends. In doing so, they revitalised their career with one of the most iconic comeback albums of all time. “Some Girls” is also the 468th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher and Liam listened to it this week, and got into the nitty-gritty on Bette Middler, the late Charlie Watts, the controversial title track, the controversial album cover, Jagger’s status as a true blue Tory, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and probably a little bit of John Mulaney.  All that and more, on the 33rd episode in a row of Enjoy An Album. 

Special live edition of the pod recorded at Monkey Barrel Comedy on Monday the 14th of August.

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After spending ten years as the frontman of bands like the patchenka world fusion outfit Mano Negra and the Parisian pub-rock group Hot Pants, Manu Chao lost both his band and his long-term girlfriend. He then spent three years in suicidal exile trekking across South America and West Africa, before returning to music with “Clandestino” - his debut solo album recorded on a laptop with international guests from the collective known as Radio Bemba. It went on to spearhead the world music trend at the turn of the millennium, and sell five million copies. Not only that, but it’s #469 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it this week, and got into it on everything from Francisco Franco and Robbie Williams to Subcomandante Marcos and the University of Southern California. All that and more, plus an unfathomably spicy chapter of Secret Posho, on the thirty-second episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Cash Money Records may have released albums by Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, but this searing quadruple-platinum slice of New Orleans bounce-inflected trap-predicting hip-hop outsold all of them. Largely produced by southern rap legend Mannie Fresh, Juvenile’s third album broke into the mainstream with mega-hits like “Ha” and “Back That Azz Up”. Not only that, but it’s #470 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail get into it/over it on subjects such as “Shake Ya Ass” by Mystikal, “Shake That” by Eminem, Juvie’s juvenilia squad The Hot Boys, reupholstery, Scottish Seinfeld, and the Saint-Denis area of the Playstation 4 game Red Dead Redemption 2. All that and more, plus an underwhelming edition of Secret Posho, on the thirty-first episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Jefferson Airplane were iconic to dirty hippies across the world in the sixties, as the only band to headline Woodstock, Altamont and the Monterey Pop festivals. “Surrealistic Pillow” was saved from record company meddling by the spiritual advisory of Grateful Dead honcho Jerry Garcia, and went on to become the defining soundtrack to the Summer Of Love. Not only that, but it’s #471 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. Christopher and Liam get into it/over it on topics such as Grace Slick’s incredible vocals, the 1998 science fiction film The Matrix, the poor bodyguarding skills of the Hells Angels, Richard Nixon, and “We Built This City” by Jefferson Starship. All that and more, plus a scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on the thirtieth episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

#472 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the modern masterpiece of confessional R&B, “Cntrl” by SZA. Christopher and Liam enjoyed it for the first time and get into it and over it about the Wu-Tang Clan, the proper pronunciation of the word ‘SZA’, hot stone massage, ‘Donda’, the term ‘alternative R&B’, talking to your mum, and watery guitars. All that and more, plus Secret Posho, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Putting out fire with Gasolina this week as the gruesome twosome get their teeth sunk into Puerto Rico’s musical legacy when they listen to ‘Barrio Fino’ by The King of Reggaeton, Daddy Yankee for the very first time. It’s the seventh best-selling Latin-speaking record in U.S. history, but how does it appeal to these two dreadful gonks? Liam once again has his knowledge of Spanish tested, and Christopher gets to show off his rich knowledge of Puerto Rican wrestling history. A fruitless Secret Posho, a clash of opinions, and much more as Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail do a deep dive on #473 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Enjoy!

Big Star’s lead singer Alex Chilton went platinum as a teenager as the lead singer of The Box Tops, and this record has been cited as an influential masterpiece by members of R.E.M., Kiss, Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements and Primal Scream. So why was it one of the biggest flops in power-pop history? Liam and Christopher do a deep dive on this gem with a particularly spicy incarnation of Secret Posho, plus a banger of a quiz that leaves Liam utterly flummoxed. It might not really have been a #1 record, but it’s #474 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Enjoy!

All we wanna do is have some fun, and we’ve got a feeling that we’re not the only ones. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have spent a week listening to Sheryl Crow’s self-titled sophomore alt-blues smasher, and now they’re going to talk about it. Is Sheryl Crow a distinct separate person from Cheryl Cole? Who would you “fuck/marry/kill” out of Lance Armstrong, Owen Wilson and Eric Clapton? And is Sheryl Cole personally responsible for the suicide of a short story writer? All that and more, plus another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on episode 26 of Enjoy An Album.

We watched the new Edgar Wright-directed documentary ‘The Brothers Sparks’, we done a deep dive on the 1974 glam rock classic ‘Kimono My House’, and we spent seven days here in heaven with Sparks. Liam presents Secret Posho, Christopher is back with a brand new quiz, but is this town big enough for the both of them? This isn’t amatuer hour as the Enjoy An Album boys go head-to-head on topics such as the hinterlands, Buckethead, the brothers’ long career, and whether or not this is the single best album we’ve listened to in the list so far in episode 25 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent the week digging in to #477 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: “Moaning In The Moonlight” by Howlin’ Wolf. It’s another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, as well as spicy discussion on topics such as Wolf’s feud with Muddy Waters, the Chicago blues style, harmonicas, and the grand return of Blind Willie Dixon and Slimcock Bumblebee Balls.  Order up a big plate of B.B. king-sized nachos and listen to episode 24 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

“Something Else by The Kinks” by The Kinks Family feuds and working-class self-sabotage simmer to the surface as the Kinks move on from their early-days Moddish rave-ups towards the nuanced character studies of their peak in this transitional sleeper masterpiece. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it about their grandads, badgers, the nature of British imperialism, Cockney appropriation, Hey Jude, Wes Anderson, RHCP and counterfeit Barcelona football kits. All that as well as Secret Posho and Quiz. Enjoy!

As the pop punk trio reunites one more time, Seann Walsh joins the boys down in London to revisit Blink-182's 1999 breakthrough album. Enjoy!

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If you enjoyed the “true crime podcast” vibes from the Phil Spector episode, then hold onto your crime scene investigatory sunglasses… it’s another installment of Enjoy A Murder. Tejano popstar Selena Quintinilla-Perez released this LP of chicano cumbia on the cusp of megastardom, but was fatally shot by the leader of her fan club in a dingy motel room months before the follow-up record was released. Posthumously, she became a Texas legend that inspired Beyonce, Shakira, Lady Gaga and many other megastars. But is actually enjoying the dated production of Amor Prohibido the true forbidden love? Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail get into it about Ten Minute Murders, Randy Beamer, the Netflix series based on her life and death, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Yolanda Saldivar and David Byrne. All this and more, on episode 22 of Enjoy An Album.

Modern country superstar emerges from a messy divorce with two discs of sad horny bangers, and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam WIthnail are giving it a bash this week. “The Weight of These Wings” is #480 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, but is it girlboss city or Nashville gritty? CMB and Liam talk about everything from the Texas oil crisis of the 1980s to Radiohead, the best double albums of all time, and The Marfa Tapes. Plus, Christopher challenges Liam to his latest quiz: “Who Said This Quote, Miranda Lambert or Ayn Rand?” All this and more, including another scintillating installment of Secret Posho, on episode 21 of Enjoy An Album.

Liam and Christopher don their cardigans and corduroy to get their indie pop on as they enjoy Belle & Sebastian’s breakthrough 1996 magnum opus “If You’re Feeling Sinister”, recorded live in person in Liam’s spare room in Edinburgh. This podcast has everything: the concept of twee, Britpop reactionism, college courses, performing in front of your heroes, Broomhill Hyndland Parish Church and Todd Solonz. All this and more in this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album!

“Oh Shit!”... there’s a new episode of Enjoy An Album! You don’t need to listen to this one “On The DL”, just “Pack The Pipe” with podcast goodness and smoke a bowl of nonsense chat with “Ya Mama”. The first hip-hop album on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list gets the E.A.J. treatment from Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail. Fatlip, Imani, Slimkid3 and Bootie Brown teamed up under the tutelage of Reggie Andrews to release this 1992 L.A. alt-rap classic, featuring incredible jazzy production by J-Swift. But does the juvenile humour of thirty years ago hold up in 2021? Join CMB and Liam as they take a bizarre ride to the Enjoy An Album side and talk Rodney King, the Inbetweeners, the Wascals, crack addiction, tripping on acid and Jackass. All this and more on episode 19 of Enjoy An Album. 

Muddy Waters grew up on a Mississippi cotton plantation and sold his family’s last horse to buy a guitar. He mastered the sound of the delta while playing in illegal juke joints, then travelled north to electrify his sound and invent an entirely new genre: Chicago blues. But is “The Anthology: 1947-1972” the best way to experience his oeuvre? Rolling Stone magazine seems to think so, naming this the 483rd Greatest Album of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent an entire week immersing themselves in the Mud’s career, and the hot-takes are as spicy as ever. Christopher quizzes Liam on his knowledge of pre-war blues, and the pair get into it about the Rolling Stones, Alan Lomax, Leonard Chess and the documentary-making acumen of East Aurora High School. All this and more on Episode 18 of Enjoy An Album!

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Lady Gaga was the Disney villain of late-00s American pop - evil, fun, and extremely gay. But with the release of her second full-length record Born This Way in 2011, she turned babyface by infusing her queer-coded arena-pop with the patriotic nostalgia of heartland rock, the crowd-pleasing pyrotechnics of 80s sleaze metal and the self-flagelising pageantry of Roman-Catholicism. It almost worked. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent a solid week jamming out to what Rolling Stone magazine named the 484th Greatest Album of All Time, and the hot takes are flying off the mouth-shelves like hotcakes. As well as a particularly scintillating edition of Secret Posho, they get into about Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, the amazing/terrible album cover and United States President Joe Biden. All this and more on episode 17 of Enjoy An Album!

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Richard Thompson essentially invented British folk-rock with Fairport Convention, then decided to go solo after a tragic car accident. Linda Peters was a Glaswegian university dropout who cut her teeth as a singer on advertising jingles. In 1972, they married. In 1973, they joined a commune dedicated to Sufism, a mystical and spiritual form of Islam and swore never to play music again. But then in 1974, they wrote, recorded and released what Rolling Stone magazine calls the 485th Greatest Album of All Time: “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” Liam and CMB listen to it and then dish out hot takes about traditional British folk music, Old Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, metaphorical tightrope-walking, literal tightrope-walking, middle class anti-capitalism and Brian Emo. All this and more on episode 16 of Enjoy An Album!

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John Mayer is a workman-like modern blues legend whose cromulent guitar-playing is balanced out by the insanity of his personal life. This week Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd listen to his 2006 magnum opus Continuum, which Rolling Stone magazine named the 486th Greatest Album of All Time. As well as the return of Secret Posho, Liam and CMB get into it and over it on subjects such as Jimi Hendrix, Drake’s birthday party, racist penises. Plus, they do a joke-by-joke breakdown of Mayer’s recorded attempt at stand-up comedy. All this and more on the fifteenth episode of Enjoy An Album!

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Misanthropic jock-poet Henry Rollins’ debut as the lead singer of Black Flag gets the Enjoy An Album treatment this week as Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listen to the archetypal hardcore record ‘Damaged’ by Black Flag! It might be the 487th Greatest Album of All Time to Rolling Stone magazine, but what does it mean to the gruesome twosome? Secret Posho returns, while Liam and CMB slam and jam about violence at concerts, straight edge, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, as well as the seminal document of underground indie rock: “This Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azzerad. All this and more on the fourteenth episode of Enjoy An Album!

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“I Wanna Be Your Dog?” How about, ‘We want to be your favourite podcast!’ I can only think of “1969” reasons for you to listen to this great podcast about the debut album by Iggy Pop & The Stooges! Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail are listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, and this is #488. They do a particularly scintillating edition of Secret Posho, and talk Detroit, The Doors, the outdoor Glaswegian heavy rock festival Gig On The Green, as well as John Cale of The Velvet Underground. All this and more in the (unlucky!) thirteenth episode of Enjoy An Album!

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The boys revisit the 2004 debut from Vegas pop giants The Killers. Enjoy!

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Insane murderer and innovative producer Phil Spector pushes the limits of album enjoyment with this career-spanning four-disc boxset, which Rolling Stone magazine calls the 489th Greatest Album of All Time. We disagree! Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail give it a listen, and then get into it about Christmas songs, box sets, Napoleon syndrome, true crime podcasts and the killing of actress Lana Clarkson by Spector in his mansion. All this and more on the twelfth episode of Enjoy An Album!

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As Linda Ronstadt once sang on this very album, “Some say the heart is just like a wheel/ When you bend it, you can’t mend it.” Well, Linda, others say this podcast is good and you should listen to it! Stand-ups, pals and music lovers Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd are listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in order, and this week it’s “Heart Like A Wheel”. They talk country rock, Emmylou Harris, midwestern emo band Short Fictions, the invention of the toaster, and The Pirates of Penzance. All this and more on the eleventh episode of Enjoy An Album!

There’s a “Fine Line” between enjoying an album, and not enjoying an album. Comedians, friends and music lovers Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail do a deep dive on Harry Styles’ sophomore solo record that’s deeper than a deep pan pizza at the bottom of the ocean. They talk One Direction, malibu beach resorts, Zane Lowe, Arctic Monkeys and Bon Iver. All that and more on episode 10 of Enjoy An Album!

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