“You made me listen to this?”

🎧 10 EPISODES… SEASON 1 COMPLETE! 🎧 With 10 episodes recorded for our first season of “You Made Me Listen..To This?”, Mike and I got together to reflect on what we’ve been through over the past 20 or so weeks. Not only have we been reconnecting a long-standing friendship, but we’ve also been educating, listening, loving, disagreeing, surprising ourselves, laughing, agreeing, getting nostalgic, l...

🎉 OUR TENTH EPISODE…AND WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE! 🎉 Albums by Deacon Blue, Seal, Robyn Hitchcock, Takipnik, Alannah Myles, Shed Seven, The White Stripes and Longpigs were thrown at Mike and Rich to listen to, review and comment on. And what a selection it was! A wonderful mixture of emotions, opinions and disagreements between Mike and Rich…exactly what you’ve come to expect! 😂 And, to make our...

Hi mate, I’ve called the episode Albums from Prince, Richard Thompson, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, The Golden Leaves, Editors and Michael Jackson gave Mike and I plenty to chat about… and believe me, we didn’t hold back! 😂 Is Michael Jackson’s Bad actually better than Thriller? Duran Duran making “serious” music? 🤔 The connection between the Editors album and The Terminator… reall...

Albums by Queens of the Stone Age, The Power Station, Chris Rea, RJ & the Painful Memories, Fleet Foxes, Sex Pistols, The Imagined Village and Ryan Adams were scrutinised, listened to, reviewed, disagreed over, loved, enjoyed… and, in a few cases, pleasantly surprised by Mike and Richard! This was one of those episodes where we both felt we could have carried on talking for hours! 😂 But which one...

This episode of “You Made Me Listen To This” was, to be honest, one where Mike and I really had to dig deep and give some properly honest opinions . 😬🎧 Not only were we challenging each other with albums, and we had YOU, again, the general public, throwing some musical curveballs our way… and we started wondering whether some of you were deliberately trying to push our ears to their absolute lim...

WOW!!! Yes…the word was used quite a lot in this latest podcast as Mike and I discussed, reviewed, agreed…and quite often disagreed…on albums by Muse, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Crash Test Dummies, Morbid Angel, The Clash, Noah Kahan, and Iron Maiden. Talk about a musical melting pot! It’s a combination that would make a witch’s cauldron bubble over with surprises, twists, and plenty...

With albums by PJ Harvey, The Cranberries, David Crosby, ABC, Skin, Portishead, Fleetwood Mac and Barenaked Ladies blasting through Mike’s and my headphones for the past couple of weeks, it was time to meet up once again. As always, we listened, reviewed, debated and, rather surprisingly, found ourselves agreeing on far more than we expected…or did we? Because there was one particular album that s...

This week, Mike and I willingly put our musical reputations on the line by listening to albums from The Cult, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Anne-Marie, Pink Floyd, Starsailor, The Horrors, Lloyd Cole and Placebo… and, somehow, we’re still talking to each other! 😂🎶 As always, we listened, scrutinised, debated, praised, questioned, disagreed, changed our minds (occasionally!), and probably confused...

Well Mike and I have been ploughing through albums from Doves, Erasure, Wolfsheim, Kiefer Sutherland (yes, that Kiefer Sutherland!), Kanye West, The Music, Tears for Fears, The Cranberries and even a listener-requested album from Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. The results of our opinions were, let’s just say…interesting!

The second EVER episode of “You Made Me Listen To This” is now LIVE! 🎉 Michael and I are on a roll as we dive into albums from Madness, R.E.M., Andy Taylor, The Doors, Dio, Jesus Jones and Future Islands. As usual, there are some very conflicting opinions along the way, making for a rather tasty discussion! At times, you’ll be nodding along in agreement, and at others, you’ll be wondering what on...

Welcome to the VERY FIRST episode EVER of You Made Me Listen To This? Mike and I throw albums at each other, listen with completely open minds, and then come together to review what we heard…whether brilliant, bizarre, emotional or totally unexpected!!! Featuring music and albums from Tom Smith, John Grant, Duran Duran, Hurts, K.Flay, Fontaines D.C., Agnes Obel and Midge Ure — all getting the full...