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We don’t talk about love! We only wanna get ranked! Rich Morgan’s still here with Chris and Ollie covering the Manic Street Preachers, as we go into Everything Must Go, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Know Your Enemy,  Lifeblood & Send Away The Tigers. All our favourite cuts from all 14 albums (!), our The Nicher The Better top 5s on songs with “Saint” in the title and our usual shoutouts...

This is the first time we’ve ever done this; this entire part is dedicated to one album, but what an album it is. We go track-by-track on 1994 masterpiece The Holy Bible, it’s a long chat but one we feel is well worth hearing, one of the absolute highlights of doing this podcast so far. Rich Morgan’s still here, and provides us with some incredible context of the time and insights into the wonderf...

I am an architect! They call me a ranker! Croeso i Podlediad Crys T Band Du, as we begin our 14 album odyssey on Welsh rock legends Manic Street Preachers! We invite our good pal and WARPSTORMER vocalist & bassist Rich Morgan along for the ride, getting into Generation Terrorists & Gold Against The Soul on this part. Rich can be found on Twitter @FBantor and his band are @warpstormer on Tw...

All you other girls best get in formation, cos I rank, I rank, I rank, I rank, okay? The Black Band T-Shirt chaps are finishing off their Beyoncé rank by covering 4 and Lemonade, plus a little chat on The Carters (her record with Jay-Z) and new single Break My Soul ahead of upcoming seventh album Renaissance. We also do our The Nicher The Better Top 5 on singles from début albums of 2003 and our u...

Got me going so crazy right now, your rank! The Black Band T-Shirt chaps make another foray into the wonderful world of pop and pluck out Queen Bey herself for the ranking treatment. On this first part, we get into Dangerously In Love, I Am…Sasha Fierce, B’Day and Beyoncé, plus a little chat about Destiny’s Child and the accompanying album to her starring role in the Lion King remake, The Gift. Sh...

Take a rank of my girlfriend, she’s the only one I got! Ollie, Chris and Mr Morrant Sr Tim are back on Supertramp, rounding off the career with Breakfast In America, Famous Last Words, Brother Where You Bound, Free As A Bird, Some Things Never Change and Slow Motion - phew! We also do our The Nicher The Better top 5 songs about breakfast and our usual shoutouts at the end.  Chris and Ollie wi...

Ranker! You know you are a ranker! For our Father’s Day special, the Black Band T-Shirt boys welcome Chris’ dad Tim Morrant on board to rank the eleven albums of Supertramp! On this part we cover their 1970 self-titled début, Indelibly Stamped, Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis? and Even In The Quietest Moments. Sorry about the buzzing sound, will definitely be fixed for next time. Shortly...

CAN’T STAND IT, I KNOW YOU RANKED IT! We round off our chat on the Beastie Boys by covering Check Your Head, Paul’s Boutique & Ill Communication. We do our The Nicher The Better Top 5 on our favourite songs by New York City musicians about the Big Apple, and have our usual shoutouts at the end. For our next episode we welcome Chris’ dad onto the podcast for a Father’s Day special to cover one...

I like my ranking with coffee and cream! The Black Band T-Shirt boys are back and we’re taking on The Beastie Boys! On this part, we take on To The 5 Boroughs, The Mix-Up, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, Licensed to Ill and Hello Nasty. Shortly after release, all of our top tracks, our Nicher The Better top 5 choices and shoutouts will be added to our Spotify Rank Bank playlist, nestling in amongst the...

Fresh off its release, the Black Band T-Shirt chaps are back with Arcade Fire so soon after we ranked them in the first instance, as they return with their Nigel Godrich-produced first effort in 5 years “We”. We revise our rankings, and pay tribute to Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder. Your podcast hosts put on shows as Grim Heart Promotions, and we announce our next show, putting on FES at...

We’re still Black Band T-Shirt on the Bloc, but is Alpha Games a Party? Ollie and Chris voice their little thoughts on the new Bloc Party record in this first of two Revisited episodes, and see where it fits into their ranking. Our favourite songs from this will be added shortly after release to our Spotify Rank Bank Playlist, nestling in amongst our best cuts from all our other episodes, our The...

London ranking from the (not so) far away town! We conclude our chat on The Clash by covering Sandinista! and London Calling, a triple and a double album! Yikes. Plus our The Nicher The Better Top 5 songs on covers of songs originally released in the 1950s, and our usual shoutouts in the end. All our favourite cuts, top 5 choices and shoutouts will be added to our Spotify Rank Bank playlist shortl...

The sharif don’t like it, rank the Casbah! The Black Band T-Shirt chaps are back, ranking the albums of punk rock heroes The Clash! We cover Cut The Crap (because we have to 😩), Give ‘Em Enough Rope, Combat Rock and The Clash, their self-titled début. Plus we have a little chat at the end of the pod about what their members went onto next! We are owned by Elon Musk @BBTS_pod, come give us a follo...

We complete our ranking of the mighty Rolo Tomassi with Theo Araby-Kirkpatrick still in tow, going through Grievances, Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It and Where Myth Becomes Memory. Woof. We also do our The Nicher, The Better top 5 on forgotten UK emo/screamo/mathcore bands and our usual shoutouts at the end. The podcast can be found on Twitter @BBTS_pod where you can keep up to date with what...

Talentless movers and rankers and candlestick makers! We begin our odyssey on the glorious Rolo Tomassi with our pal Theo Araby-Kirkpatrick in tow, covering Hysterics, Cosmology and Astraea on this part. We also cover Eternal Youth, the compilation of B-sides, remixes and rarities. All our favourite cuts from each album, our The Nicher, The Better Top 5s (if we can find some of Theo’s!) and shouto...

*glass shatters* BAH GAWD, WITH GOD AS MY WITNESS, BLACK BAND T-SHIRT IS BROKEN IN HALF! It’s Wrestlemania weekend baby and we’re here with our top 5 themes of the 80s to around 2012, aka the Jim Johnston era! We get into some iconic Attitude Era themes and beyond, and pay tribute to the dreadful loss of Taylor Hawkins. All these themes and our favourite Hawkins moments will be put into our Spotif...

Sometimes I get believing, I’m ranking past the feeling! We conclude our chat on Arcade Fire with The Suburbs and Funeral, plus our The Nicher The Better top 5 on songs with countries in the title that aren’t the UK or US and our usual shoutouts at the end. All our favourite cuts, our Top 5 choices and shoutouts will be added to our Spotify Rank Bank playlist shortly after the podcast’s release, n...

Everyrank now! (I want it) Everyrank now! (I need it). The Black Band T-Shirt chaps are back on their bullsh*t, ranking the albums of Canadian indie rock collective Arcade Fire! We get into Everything Now, Reflektor and Neon Bible on this part, plus a little chat on their début self-titled EP and side releases. The podcast is now on Twitter @BBTS_pod, get at us with your thoughts on Arcade Fire an...

Full apologies made for length here instead of a dodgy rank pun…! We round off R.E.M. with guest Paul Chave in one of our longest parts yet, covering Reveal, Around The Sun, Accelerate & Collapse Into Now. We also do our The Nicher The Better top 5 on our favourite UK number ones of 1983 (with a bit of a different approach) and our shoutouts. We announce our next episode at the end, where we’ll be...

That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spot, light, losing my rank-igion! With the 80s done, it’s time for the Black Band T-Shirt chaps to go into R.E.M.’s glory years, covering Out of Time, Automatic For The People, Monster, New Adventures In Hi-Fi and Up. Our guest Paul Chave sticks with us with his spicy takes (including one of the best metaphors ever broadcast on this pod) and almost murder...

I’ve got my spine, I’ve got my o-rank crush! We kick off episode 25 of Black Band T-Shirt podcast ranking the albums of Athens, GA alt-rock heroes R.E.M. with our pal Paul Chave! The I.R.S. years are covered in this part (plus their major label début, motoring through Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant, Document and Green. We are now on Twitter as a podcast, get at...

Woaaaaah oh, woa-oh-oh, ohhhhhhh, caught in a bad rankmance! Episode 24 of Black Band T-Shirt concludes, rounding off our Gaga ranking with chat on The Fame Monster (which we’re considering EP & album together as a whole) & her latest effort, Chromatica. We then get into our The Nicher The Better top 5 on best songs by artists who’ve worn controversial or outrageous outfits and our usual s...

Don’t be a rank, just be a queen! The Black Band T-Shirt chaps are back with something a bit different, ranking the albums of Mother Monster herself Lady Gaga! We cover 3 records on this first half, going through our thoughts on ArtPOP, Born This Way and Joanne, and close out the part with a brief chat on her acting exploits. Couple of plugs - Chris and I are putting on Other Half, Occupants and O...

I think that someone is trying to rank me…again! The Black Band T-Shirt chaps are back revisiting Mastodon after the release of Hushed and Grim, and they’ve got My Eyes Are Old and Bent guitarist Matt Markham along for the ride. Matt ranked Mastodon with us back in episode 6, and we discuss what we think about the new album from one of his favourite bands and how it fits into our ranking. Our afor...

I RANK THE TABLE! Ollie, Chris and Lucy are back for the third and final part of their Metallichat, taking on Death Magnetic, Hardwired…To Self Destruct!, and a brief revisit to the infamous Lulu. Our Nicher The Better Top 5 this episode is our favourite songs about hair, based on the controversy of Metallica cutting their hair in the 90s. How very dare they! Thanks for joining us on this journey,...