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It's Sunday folks - James is still keyed up on Oasis and we rank Noel Gallagher. 

D' You Know What I Mean?

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A classic Sunday Slice of life - just trying to figure out the future of culture and what not.

Myself and Johnny try to create a Best Of Macca Solo....but end up being spellbound by the ability to just stream Spotify.  Loved checking out the new Drugdealer and Michael Rault.  As far as I'm concerned this is the new blueprint.  Gotta go and check that Neil Young and John Mayer thing out.  Have a lovely week.

Johnny still won't rank Harry Nilsson, so I ranked one of my top dogs.

Against the Odds, like Phil Collins during Live Aid, I'm straight off a plane and into the pod.  Johnny proves his reputation as an ice cold ranker, by finessing our Last Waltz Performance Ranking.  Please send us your lists.

Johnny and Mike back in the saddle, stuck in between a trust fund kid and a rock god.

It's time to up our business acumen.  Really gonna focus on our Patreon Episodes.  That being said, this episode rips.

I live for these episodes.

I'm back out on the road, but this is long overdue, time to rank the strip, real bad boys of rock.  Fashion is gonna get heated.

One of my favourite episodes in a while.  Rank (re-rank) The Fab Four.  Also, deal with couple patron questions / accusations.  I have been tryna figure out what songs to test my new audiophile sound system on, reddit has been really helpful.

Joined by special guest Alaina Moore, one half of indie pop band / sailing enthusiasts, "Tennis."  Kate Bush is up. 

Ranking ain't easy.

...You have nothing to lose but the pockets that bind you.

In an IWOL exclusive we are joined by drummers and all around beautiful people, Noah Bond (Cut Worms) and Christopher Icasiano (Fleet Foxes), representing and defending all drummers worldwide for their crimes against soundchecks. 

The Boys Are Back In Town.  This Episode is Live and Dangerous, and we are FIRED UP!

Apologies on Delay, got an adult dose on tour, logistics of finding a. my mind. b. my voice and c. the necessary equipment, made this one take a second.  Johnny is back from tour, weening himself off the sauce.  Needless to say, your boys are a little banged up.  

Read through a lot of your messages on this one, lovely to see you've been ranking on your own time.

It's An Impossible Way Of Life

Johnny is in New York, so we rank so of the NY big guns, Lou Reed and the lads!  

It's heating up folks.  Fuck knows where Johnny is, New York, London?   Also, after this episode I got a new XLR.  We got a new provisional number 1 Rank.

We get the band back together to talk shop and then try and rank Smokey Robinson.  Featuring extra special guest Jessica Espeleta.

Listen to Johnny react live to a really strange LSD induced nightmare of a virtue signalling music video; this time it's "Let It Be," with lots of odd celebs.  And on the bright side, we put our categories to the test and rank John Lennon and Van Morrison.  

Taking a break from the hotly contested Top Singer Rank-a-thon (don't worry we'll get back to it), to discuss all things The Band.  We are lucky to be joined by Mike Komaszchuk aka Youtube Username - Stranglehold, who tells us why Richard Manuel is his favourite singer, as well as letting us know about his exciting Youtube The Band fan page.

Having a wonderful time over here.  Finally getting to the bottom of our Top 20, and working out the appropriate way we can RANK.  Also, let's discuss that Super Bowl  Halftime Show.  Happy Valentines Day. xx

Johnny got that negative test we all craved.  It's live, it's one on one, and we are talking about Rolling Stone's Top 20 Singers of all time, The Chili Peppers have a new song, and getting the band back together.

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Happy Sunday! There is a new Giles Martin in town and he won't rest until John Lennon's legacy is destroyed. The lads listen to the latest act of Beatlesy historical revisionism, as Sean Lennon decides remix "Mind Games."

Prepared to get fired up.

Guest Host Alex Bleeker joins us to break down, once and for all, the Rogan vs Young debate.  He also starts some pretty serious L.A based Jam Band Beef.

Johnny contacted Paul Rodgers, to settle the question of technical vocals once and for all.  We got into a couple of articles.  Welcome to An Impossible Way Of Life, your bi-weekly Tennis and Culture podcast.

One of my favourite episodes in a while, we are joined my Jessica Espeleta.  Once and for all, we try and get to the bottom of Live Aid and other major rock n' roll fund raiser songs, but end up mostly talking about David Crosby and Jess' The Doors Cover Band.

Enjoy.

“We actually had a guy that was employed just to provide us with cocaine. We needed an incredible amount of energy to pull off that tour and I’m sure it helped in a way, but it is a very subtly destructive drug and there was a lot of it around. We were rock and roll stars at the height of our power and the height of our commerciality and the height of our ability to put asses on seats. We had it all. And sometimes you need to break that tension. Drugs and women were a part of that entire process.”  - Graham Nash

Happy New Year to all of you in the IWOL universe.  In today's episode we are right back to Watching The Watchman.  We listen to Peter Jackson explain he doesn't even listen or like music at all, and we do a deep dive into who exactly Sam Okell is?  This is the guy who Remasters all The Beatles music, remixes Band on The Run, and got his big break mastering Lord of the Rings.  Who is he working for?  'It's Christmas Eve in the City of Angels and while decent citizens sleep the sleep of the righteous, hopheads prowl for marijuana, not knowing that a man is coming to stop them! Celebrity crimestopper Jack Vincennes, scourge of grasshoppers and dopefiends everywhere!' Ya like it, Jackie boy?  It's all here on An Impossible Way of Life.

Alex Bleeker joins us for the final episode of IWOL for this calendar year.  Pretty sure he starts major jam band beef; can't wait to see how this plays out in the New Year.  

Me and Johnny are spending our Omicron Isolated Christmas' catching up with old and new friends alike.  A really close dear old friend of mine, musician, and all around lovely lad (from the South - Massive Rivalreh) Joe Dudderidge, joins us on the podcast.  He waxes lyrical on all things Get Back, while wearing an exquisite Glyn Johns-esque Fur Coat.  Also, both me and him are using our 1073 pre-amps, should sound rather loveleh.  Happy Holidays n' all that.

Like Mussolini from the balcony - "RELEASE THE TAPES PETER!" It's not funny anymore.

I'm losing track, but all I know is we have to continue.  You deserve only the best.

Was there a stylist?  Is Macca on bugle, the dickhead dust?  Is George The Queen Bitch?  Why isn't Dave Grohl in this documentary?  It's all here folks, off the record, on the Q.T. and very hush-hush.  An Impossible Way of Life.

Drummers beware - this episode might not be for you.

Johnny's back from The Hollywood Vampires Lair.  Fellowship of the Ringo is just two days away.  Hell yeh.

Johnny has a new song out called "Someday" and I rank it.  How would the ranker crowd feel?  What would the names of the Spotify Playlists be?  I'm joined by Jeffrey Innes and Brandon Wolfe Scott, who also has a song out (massive rivalreh.)  In a more earnest than usual IWOL, we talk musical influences, nostalgia, and the many era's of Neil Young.  Johnny is back next Wednesday FYI.  Enjoy your week.

Johnny is auditioning for the Hollywood Vampires, so my old pal and OG friend of the pod Vom Cruise is here to fill the void.  We talk about all the usual stuff, Dave Grohl being Ringo, John Depp being John.  Who else is involved?  Why would anyone care?  Because it's a Goddam Impossible Way of Life.

Me and Johnny enjoy a last meal before he heads to L.A for a couple weeks, and we laugh harder than we ever have on this podcast.

Last week got me thinking.  Rolling Stone vs Pitchfork, Mods vs Rockers, Knives vs Guns, Marshall vs Fender.  I was ordering Sushi and I felt like I made a particularly Velvetsy style order.  Can everything be broken down into such binary oppositions?  Or do The Stones have to be involved?

We watched The Velvet Underground Documentary by Todd Haynes, but also listened to the Giles Martin "Let It Be" 2021 Atmos mixes.  Needless to say, this episode is mostly about Al Stewart's reissue of Time Passages.

And this time Macca says it's Lennon who did it.  Also, given the fact that "Let It Be" has been reissued 5 times this year, and with the Velvet Underground Doc, Led Zeppelin Doc, Beatles / Lord of the Rings Doc, we try to put together a Classic Rock Reissue Calendar for the coming months.  Enjoy!

Damn.  Another massive rivalreh.  Also, I have a new chord that lets me play music on the pod.

Doing God's work over here.  We break down the TOP 250 songs in Rolling Stone Magazine's recently refreshed TOP 500.  Listen to last Sunday on Patreon for maximum IWOL energy.

We watched this doc called "Whatever Happened to Pink Floyd?  The Strange Case of Waters and Gilmour and as such decided to settle on of the most important questions in Classic Rock.  Do Pink Floyd actually have any songs?  Oh, and delve into the Fire (Waters), Ice (Gilmour) and Luke Warm Water (Mason) of Floyd, deciding once and for all, who is the best.

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Classic episode. Good Drummer? We make the necessary adjustments to the categories to be able to rank drummers, then test it out on Grohl.

In an IWOL first, Alex Bleeker made it Snowdenseque and safely across the Canadian Border, and we catch up with him "alive and dangerous" to discuss all different kinds of ranking, plus James tries to be a real journalist for a moment.

It's really hard to explain what's goin' on here.

R.I.P to a Real One.  Rest in Power Charlie.