Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail & Christopher Macarthur-Boyd – Details, episodes & analysis

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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!