Dave High

Music Is None Of Our Business

Music EN ↓ 38 episodes

We are Dave and Jake, two 60 year old music fans, and we take on a different theme per episode and pick five relevant songs each. We cover music from the 60's to now, and more or less any genre you can think of. From Punk to Pop, Reggae to Northern Soul, Drum N Bass to Ambient, if it's out there, we'll listen to it. Our best review ever said: "I love this podcast. My new favourite. Never heard Throbbing Gristle and Taylor Swift discussed in any depth in the same decade - let alone in the same conversation."

Author

Dave High

Category

Music

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Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

Episode Thirty Seven - Lovers Of Covers 30.06.2026

This episode is a sequel to the previous covers episode. With more covers, obvs. Plus existential angst, stabbings, Dolly Parton sounding like Johnny Cash, and more bad jokes.

Episode Thirty Six - Weathering Heights 19.06.2026

Songs with weather related titles this time, along with missing cats, hideously expensive records, ebay flipper scum, the usual existential crises and jokes. Lots of jokes.

Episode Thirty Five - W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah No! No! My Daddy Don't) 08.06.2026

Songs with occupations in the title, plus Dr Who trivia, a history of Top Of The Pops dancers, Bob Marley's donuts, more tuneless singing and lots of waffle.

Episode Thirty Four - The Female Of The Species 28.05.2026

This episode has songs about girls names, we discuss Jakes technical knowledge of music, and my lack of it, accidental metal, droney shit pumps, and lots of other stuff.

Episode Thirty Three - I Know What Boys Want 18.05.2026

We pick a load of songs with boys names in the titles. Jake shames me for getting the episode no. wrong again, by leaving the whole conversation intact. Lots of waffle, some history, brain farts. The usual.

Episode Thirty Two - That's Our Name, Don't Wear It Out 08.05.2026

Lots of cool eponymous LPs, plus taglines, more ambient aromas, what's the point of collecting, and street cred, or lack of it.

Episode Thirty One - I Can Sing A Rainbow 27.04.2026

We pick a load of tracks with colours in the title. Lots of going off in tangents, Stourbridge murals, mispronunciations, record store day rip offs, band t shirts. It's a good one.

Episode Thirty - Heads, Shoulders, Knees And Toes 15.04.2026

This episode we pick songs with body parts in the title, and discuss gig etiquette, or lack of it, Gary Numan impressions, colds, really bad farts, and other tall tales.

Episode Twenty Nine - Creature Feature 02.04.2026

Some of our favourite songs with creatures in the titles. Plus some rubbish regional accents, London not being a warzone, bizarre gardening accents plus general japery.

Episode Twenty Eight - Whole Wide World 20.03.2026

Our favourite songs referencing places are covered this episode, as well as Winston Churchill, puberty, Jake's membership of the Cambodian police force and other ridiculous shenanigans.

Episode Twenty Seven - Lost For Words 09.03.2026

In which we discuss our favourite instrumental tracks, as well as can instrumentals have words, death, fiery couture and the threat of quicksand amongst other topics.

Episode Twenty Six - I Like Food, Food Tastes Good 26.02.2026

It's the food episode! Lots of songs with, at times, dubious links to food. Also memory loss, poor timekeeping skills and shocking amounts of waffle.

Episode Twenty Five - Motion Picture Soundtrack 16.02.2026

From that uninspiring title you can probably guess what this episode is about. We manage to go off topic almost immediately, but then waffle on about our favourite soundtracks. Jake says it's one of his favourite episodes so far, I'll take his word for it.

Episode Twenty Four - Attack Of The Killer Bs 05.02.2026

We present a trawl through some great B sides, starting with an explanation of what a B side is for you youngsters. Lots of unnecessary singing, what's goth and what's not goth, the inaccurate history of dub, some skanking, Britain's Scariest Gigs, and lots more shenanigans.

Episode Twenty Three - Happy Happy Joy Joy 26.01.2026

To compliment our romp through a selection of sad songs last time, in this episode we're happy, happy, happy chatting about the songs that make us feel happy! So have a listen, and feel happy and gay!!

Episode Twenty Two - Down In The Dumps 15.01.2026

It's our saddest songs. No tears, but plenty of bumbling around, forgetting what we were talking about, disagreements about whether disco songs can be sad. You know, the usual.

Episode Twenty One - When We Were Twenty 05.01.2026

We revisit 1985, well someone had to. Shenanigans galore, some goth, some feedback, some panpipes. Huh? Panpipes? Bloody panpipes? Are we mad? Quite possibly.

Episode Twenty - When We Were Young 24.12.2025

We discuss being young with a selection of old 70's pop hits we would have heard on the radio and Top Of The Pops when we were aged 5 - 11. Obviously it goes without saying that we stray off topic numerous times and Jake says "Oh dear" a lot.

Episode Nineteen - Simply The Best (of 2025) 15.12.2025

We go through our Top 10s of 2025, with detours into overpriced records and merch, a rambling explanation of Hauntology, rating Jake's jokes out of 10 and the usual old rubbish.

Episode Eighteen - It's Alive! 05.12.2025

We discuss some amazing gigs we've been to as well as moaning about the distress of having to change trains at our age, falling over as opposed to having a fall, time travel via extreme volume and all of the usual shenanigans.

Episode Seventeen - Totally Random Man 25.11.2025

We each pick 5 songs that we really, really like. That's a nice simple one. We also cover Jive Bunny, band names with swear words in them and whether it's appropriate to use said swear words, while obviously using them, rubbish remixes and lots more pointless old rubbish.

Episode Sixteen - We're The Boys Making All The Noise 17.11.2025

We pick some of our favourite male voices. We also discuss singing with an accent, gravelly voices, the role of wankiness in Prog rock, along with the usual sophisticated humour and discourse you've come to expect.

Episode Fifteen - Duck & Cover 07.11.2025

We compile some of our favourite cover versions. There are also obscure Kids TV references, saving the world from alien invasion via the medium of bad karaoke, plus the usual going off on tangents, bad jokes, amnesia and general lack of professionalism.

Episode Fourteen - 1997 Revisited And We Feel Very Old 30.10.2025

We reminisce about 1997. Dave almost finishes a sentence, Jake is as erudite as ever. There are Marianne Faithfull cards making a racket, forgotten gigs, at least one reasonably funny joke, an astounding amount of Instagram views and all the usual mishaps.

Episode Thirteen - Not Superstitious 17.10.2025

We compile some of our favourite female fronted bands. Jake reveals he can speak Icelandic, Dave get's the title of one of his favourite LPs wrong. Twice! And doesn't even notice. Amateur! There's chortling, chuckling and at least one guffaw.

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