Seaside Pod Review (A Queen Podcast)

Another Roger song. The first track from Jazz. Another unanimous decision from Kev and Randy. Apologies for the audio quality difference during the Twitter discussion. Kev's internet connection wasn't great and he was recording on his laptop with no proper mic. To cap off the shit show, Zoom didn't record the audio to separate tracks. Anyway, enough of that, polar bears, drum machines, lyrics, and...

Look, it's really hard to write a good song about a cat. And I mean an actual cat, not like Cool for Cats or Honkey Cat. Those aren't the felines that lick their own arses and strut around like they own the place! In this week's episode, Kev astonishes Randy with his deep and nerdy guitar effect trivia, Randy awaits the talk box eagerly and both the boys vote the same way for the second week runni...

Through the sorrow, all through our splendour, don't take offence at our, Queen podcast.... "You're not as witty as the @lappods guys!", we hear you say! Yep. Fair enough. "You're not as informed as the Queenpod!" is a valid criticsm!" ALRIGHT! No need to lay it on thick! "Brrrgn frrgggmrrr bgrrhghg!" Look, we don't know what the LapPods guys' Glasga dialect means, so we're just gonna say, WE AGRE...

This week, Randy and Kev get their first song from Sheer Heart Attack. It's the opener from side two, which isn't related to the closer from side two with kinda the same name. The boys are split in their eventual unscientific opinions on this one but both feel that they made valid points. So they agreed to disagree, raised a glass to each other's health and vowed to come back to do it all again ne...

ANOTHER song from A Day At The Races! This time it's the mid-tempo, twelve-string, Brian May track, Long Away. There may be a little more swearing in this episode than usual because the boys had both had two or three beers before they even turned the mics on! Nonethless, they will regale you with keen insights, witty anecdotes, and the use of expensive words such as "juxtaposition" and less expens...

WE GOT A TEAR JERKER FOLKS! Kev and Randy discuss the wisfully beautiful These Are the Days of Our Lives, from 1991's Innuendo. Kev explains to Randy that he's pronouncing things wrong, Randy explains to Kev exactly where he can file that opinion and the boys talk fretless bass, brilliant arrangement and whether using electronic drums can leave a track feeling anchored down to a very specific time...

It's the fantastic drowse of another episode folks! Kev is back and he's not happy that Randy is trying to take over!!! The boys get another Roger track and the third song they've covered so far from 1985's titanic A Day At The Races. Randy talks about the production on this one, Kev makes a comparison with the Kinks and the boys split their vote. Also, Kev's a little bit swearier than usual becau...

Randy tackles Soul Brother, the B-side to Under Pressure, on his own today as Kev is out with the 'rona! We didn't wanna leave you hanging so we thought we'd let Randy off leash and see if we even need that weird English guy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, homicidal painters, swanee whistles, and a thorough explanation of hockey from a bona fide Canadian. Also, a killer track from Side Black of Queen II. Kev tries to explain to Randy how he feels this side of this album really is best listened to in its entirety and Randy assures Kev that, even though he's more of a guitarist himself, he definitely knows what a harpsichord is! Ho...

Randy and Kev are joined by fellow Saskatchewanian and podcaster extraordinaire Corey Morrissette for the final episode in Season One (because Kev has literally just this second decided that seasons will be ten episodes long!) We talk about Corey's live experiences with Queen (and Paul Rodgers, and Adam Lambert), the use of Synths on Queen albums, and of course, plenty about this week's song; Comi...

Yet ANOTHER cut from News of the World, but this time one that Randy hadn't heard before. Some fun panning, maracas, and even a little cowbell in this one, plus we head back to the "Church of Go Fuck Yourself" for another sermon. PJ sent us a great raw sessions version of the song which we rather enjoyed and we also found out that this song was too hard for Brian May to play, which is why John Dea...

Seriously? We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions in the first episodes? Kev is starting to get seriously worried that the end of this show is going to be him apologizing to Randy for a bunch of songs from A Kind of Magic and The Miracle!!! Talk about what to do with B Sides. What to do about the blatent theft of this format and how we can make it up to the people we stole it from. And mainly,...

Episode seven and after another Greatest Hits track last week, the boys were really hoping for a deeper cut and the wheel was in a good mood tonight. This is another first for Randy and a song that Kev hasn't thought about in quite a while. The boys talk Smokey Robinson, The Knack, and Prince in relation to the song and are faced with another Roger Taylor lyric, so it could easily go south on ya!...

Randy and Kev are back for another episode. We talk about clip clops, triangles, and what in the hell a saloon actually is that you can drive in style in it! We also read out listener tweets and recap the "farrago of mediocrity" that was Heaven For Everyone (thanks to Brian Crozier for that superb phrase!) Today's track is the gigantically brilliant Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, from A Day At The...

Don't stop us now because we want it all! Today's episode covers a cover. Well, technically. Heaven For Everyone was originally recorded by Roger Taylor's side project, The Cross in late 1987. The album was released posthumously after Freddie's death and is a mishmash of odds and ends and rehashed tracks. Kev and Randy talk about 90s synths, the lyrical prowess of Roger Taylor, and also a little b...

Hello out there you stone cold crazy fat bottomed girls and guys! The wheel burped up another all time classic. Maybe the most iconic opening of any song in history. Seriously. No surprises from Kev and Randy when it came to voting on this one. Or were there???? We recapped last week's ep, including some chat about two live performances of Somebody to Love and then got straight into the meat of We...

The wheel kindly gave us our first song from (the UK release of) Greatest Hits this week and we were pretty excited to talk about this one! Turns out, Freddie Mercury could really sing! We also find out that Randy was categorically wrong last week and the poll backed up that assertion. Don't forget to head over to Twitter to let us know whether you thinkg Somebody To Love is one of the champions o...

Apologies up front for this one being a little long folks. But it's not our fault! Today's episode features the first spin of the wheel of Queen and it throw up the epic, eight and a half minute, monster The Prophet's Song from 1975's A Night At The Opera. The boys were split in their final evaulation of the song but that just means that someone was definitely right and someone needs to seriously...

Well hello people of the internet and other places too! The first episode of the podcast is now out and we spun up track one of album one for in inaugral show. Randy likes the flanger and also reveals that he is in fact the pastor of the Church of Go Fuck Yourself! Apart from that, the boys talk about heavy drum sounds, the wisdom of playing guitar with a coin and how absolutely brilliant Queen we...

Kev and Randy lay out the plans for this spontaneous and hopefully humourous look at the catalogue of one of the greatest rock bands to ever grace the stage: Queen. Every week, we'll will spin a wheel which contains songs from the entire Queen catalogue. Every week we'll talk about that song and look at background and live performances as well as listening through the song and commenting on differ...