Music Sounds Better With Two

Welcome back friends. Sorry we've been away so long. This week 'especially for you' we have an episode dedicated to the woman who still has us all 'spinning around'; Kylie. We present to you an episode based around the brand new Kylie documentary on Netflix. We analyse the main loves/losses in Kylie's life that are explored in the documentary. Giant clapperboard by giant cl...

**Moderate spoiler alert from 1:08:00 onwards for the new Steps Musical - Here and Now** This week we revisit Steps: On The Road Again (2012) and discover what we always knew to be true...they're in fact NOT Better Best Forgotten.  We take an (unclean) tour bus back on the road where diversions and roadsigns we encounter are: Are Bucks Fizz or Steps the British ABBA? Will Lisa ever recover from le...

The moment you've all (probably not) been waiting for blink fans. T Julie has fixed her mic and the 'blinkisode' is back! In this instalment we cover the years 2007-2015 when Tom, Mark and Travis reunited after their break up...the first time.  Join us as we stay 'Up All Night' to discuss: Travis Barker's flight simulator plane crash (that Tom potentially caused through "predictive programming"),...

Turns out we're all still 'mad fer it'. With their Oasis Live '25 tour, well under way , Oasis fever is currently sweeping the nation once more. What better way to celebrate their return than by revising their '97 documentary: Right Here, Right Now. Well...if you can call it a documentary, really. In a MÖTH alcohol fuelled haze, we discuss: the world's smallest plane, the world's longest wave from...

Didn't they say that we would make a mistake?" Well, 'No Matter What' we tried, this episode was extremely difficult to put out. This was our 2nd attempt at recording and there are still some audio issues. All we can ask is that "words don't come easily, but forgive us." If you haven't guessed from the puns by now; this week we bring you our thoughts on the Boyzone documentary, available on Now TV...

Here's the second episode centred around Lou Pearlman that probably no one asked for. This time we cover Netflix's: Dirty Pop: The Boyband Scam. Prepare for an extremely (possibly unintentionally hilarious) episode. Special guest feature from Julie's other half: John Aldred who also contributed to our nonsense. On the journey into madness we encounter: AI Lou Pearlman, pensioners losing their nest...

Merry Christmas, you lovely lot. It's been a long time coming, and what better way for MSBWT to return than by celebrating 'The greatest night in pop' together. This season, J and I are going to be discussing (barely) some Netflix documentaries based around (you guessed it) music. Which, by the way, still sounds better with two. 'The Greatest Night In Pop' explores how the single 'We Are The World...

Hey guys! Well here we are with the 4th instalment of the blink story. The first of 2 instalments on life post blink. We're taking you back to 2006 where a freshly divorced blink-182 both find themselves in new relationships, +44 and Angels and Airwaves respectively. We dive into the debut, and to this day only, album by +44 "When Your Heart Stops Beating." We explore the dark, lyrical content of...

Hey guys! We've got some X-tra Factor for you. We're back with Cristina for some extra content. Our reality pop music chat got so deep and off piste that we created an X-Factor chaser. In this episode we voice our opinions freely on how these music shows affected all of our lives and changed the music industry forever. It gave the public a power they had never had before that we unfortunately, mor...

Hey guys! We're back for Season 4 and this week we are The Cheeky Girls (cheeky cheeky). We're here with a wonderful guest and friend of the pod, Cristina D'Annunzio, our own personal Honey-G, to discuss our wealth of fond memories and knowledge surrounding music reality TV shows. She can also rap and do a cracking impression of the announcer dude off X-Factor. Listen to the ep to hear those. We t...

Hey friends! We've finally crawled to the end of season 3 and we are beyond grateful to anyone still journeying with us. This week we travel to Edinburgh to watch Midlake perform at the Liquid Rooms. Join us as we navigate the hustle and bustle of our nation's capital complete with automatic lawnmowers, alarms, sirens and birdsong. We discuss not only the wonderful performance of Midlake but also...

This week Take That relight our fires (and possibly scar us for life) as we watch their 2006 documentary For The Record. This one is a special request for long time supporter, friend and fan Sareem Griage. We hope we did it justice. Join us and the mad bunch of young Manc lads as they travel the icky, sticky cake and jelly filled food waste hellscape of the pop machine in their early 90s heyday, t...

Hey guys! This week we bring you a vintage magazine reading a.k.a our new obsession. This season we're bringing you #133 of MOJO from April 2003. In the edition we read a full britpop reflection article. There are soundbites from britpop legends looking back on the heady heyday of britpop. Along the way we meet cancelled misogynistic car and Mülller rice ads. We then try to go full method and brin...

Hey guys! Hope you're taking it easy in the New Year. Since we can't rave at the minute we're bringing the rave to you! This week we're taking a deeper dive into rave culture in the west coast of Scotland and how it is intrinsically tied up with working class, "ned" youth culture and the futile need to escape. We look at the culture through the lens of Graeme Armstrong's (writer of The Young Team)...

Ho Ho Ho guys! The festive season is upon us and whether you celebrate or not, whether you love it or hate it, whether it's a rough time for you or if it brings you joy, come have a babycham with us and be merry as we discuss Christmas music! J regales us with anecdotes and Christmas songs from her experience with weird retail Christmas playlists. Pet rats for Christmas anyone? Then I try to (prob...

Hey friends, we are celebrating J's birthday this week and we've chosen to share it with you - a relaxed episode where we look at weird lyrics in songs pt 2 and strange vocal inflections that probably only we notice. Shout out to our content creator of the week, Finn McKenty for inspiring our content in a way he probably never expected. Come get bloated with us as we listen to Meatloaf and riff wi...

Hey arrr kids! This week we're taking you back to the mid 90's when the UK was hooked on a little thing called britpop. So grab your bucket hats (they're back in fashion you know) and come journey with us as we comment on various incoherent britpop documentaries. We have conversations surrounding the iconic artists of the era: blur, Oasis, Suede, Supergrass, Pulp and many more. Actually perhaps so...

Hello there, the angels from our nightmares. This week we are continuing the blink journey into their most creative and swoopy haired era, the Untitled album (2003). We watch the MTV Launch documentary following the creative process of the album and do some deep dives on the artistic nuances on this masterpiece. Did 'I Miss You' cause an entire generation to dye their hair black, swoop their fring...

Hey friends! This week we took a Podcast trip to York and experienced opera for the first time. J got emotional. I remained emotionless. Standard. So pop on your opera glasses (are they still a thing? We never had any. That's sad) and join us for an evening of classical music and operatic vocals which comprise of one line being sang 15 different ways in the space of 20 minutes apparently. J provid...

Hey friends! We're back for season 3. This week we interview someone from inside the local band scene in Glasgow (and Dumbarton) for the past 20 years, a real 'Rock 'n' Roll Star', who also happens to be my brother. He shares stories about the music that inspired him to pick up a guitar (now bass), stories from life on the road in his bands The Haze and Holy Pistol Club, and what it was like being...

Hey friends! Join us as we wave goodbye to season 2 and prepare to find all new nostalgia madness to torture you with next season. Let's rewind back to nonsense lyrics, double dose of Hamilfanning, getting raging at Britney's conservatorship x2 and our loveletter from the great outdoors and at being allowed to be with each other across more than a zoom screen. Long may it continue in season 3. See...

Hey friends welcome to our narcissistic collection of best bits from season 2. We take you right back to conspiracies: is Paul dead? Is Tom DeLonge IN the stars? Unsolved. Then we're bringing you good critesen bois, the blinkisode continues and we're bringing you into an 80's/90's nostalgia aural hellscape in TV themes. See y'all back here for part 2. J & N

Hey friends! Welcome to the free flowing (literally) impromptu finale of season 2 from the great outdoors. Listen to the calming ebb and flow of scummy polluted water alongside the erratic flow of our conversation as we regale you with some life updates and plans for the future. Listen out for the random swimmers blowing on a conch shell for some reason and some angry crows too. Take care guys and...

Hey friends! This week we discuss artists/gig experiences that touched our souls in ways no one else could. Julie discusses her deep, biased unapologetic love of the super talented Owen Pallett. Why play a violin with a bow when you can blow through it? And I talk about a beautiful spiritual experience I had at a Bruce Springsteen gig that healed me in places I hadn't even realised I needed healed...

Hey friends! We're back refreshed after a lil' break and while we were gone some things happened in the world. Things that we felt we'd like to and should talk about. Firstly, we discuss the latest developments in the Britney Spears conservatorship honestly and openly and sensitively as always. Which then leads us into the horrible mucky, innards of the pop machine once more. Why are we obsessed w...