Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail & Christopher Macarthur-Boyd

#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 mor...

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 Chri...

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 P...

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 Clap...

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...

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...

“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, He...

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 releas...

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 Radi...

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 S...

“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...

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 t...

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....

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...

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...

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 s...

“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...

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 actre...

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 countr...

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 Enj...

It might be “Too Soon To Tell” whether or not Enjoy An Album will go down in history as the greatest music podcast of all time, but whether you’re a “Real Man” or “Nobody’s Girl”, there’s something to enjoy in this week’s episode. Liam and Christopher listen to Bonnie Raitt’s tenth studio album Nick Of Time, one of the shining jewels in the treasure chest of adult contemporary country. They talk s...

The boys introduce Enjoy an Album Playlist, and catch you up with their picks so far!

“When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You?” More like, ‘When Did You Start Loving This Podcast, When Did This Podcast Start Loving You?’ And the answer to that question is: “with this episode.” Christopher and Liam listen to Marvin Gaye’s ‘Here, My Dear’ (#493 on the Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time) then got down and dirty with post-marriage space funk, at...

“Be My Baby”? How about, be my listener to this podcast! This week’s album: “Presenting The Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica”, which is #494 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher and Liam talk about it being released on the precipice of the Age of the Album, deep dive into some revisionist critical theory regarding the evil Phil Spector who prod...

Don’t make us beg you ‘On Bended Knee’ to listen to this week’s episode! Boyz II Men’s ‘II’ (#495 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Album of All Time list) gets the Enjoy An Album treatment from two boyish men. Liam falls in love with their neo-doo wop sound, while Christopher does a deep lore dive that’s deeper than a deep pan pizza at the bottom of the ocean on their origin story. Plus, what exactly i...