The boys take a look at the 2023 collaborative album between JPEGMafia and Danny Brown. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys delve into the experimental jazz flute debut from Outkast Andre "3000" Benjamin. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys start off the year with a bang as they revisit the 2003 instrumental post-rock modern classic by Explosions In The Sky. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys dissect the curious drum-free rerelease of 2013's sound of the summer, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys count down 5 to 1 of their 2023 best of lists. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | ⁠https://manscaped.com⁠ 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys wrap up the year with 10 to 6 of their favourite albums of the year. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys get festive as they dig into Canadian crooner Michael Buble's best-selling Christmas album Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Special live edition of the pod recorded at Monkey Barrel Comedy on Monday the 14th of August. ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

As the pop punk trio reunites one more time, Seann Walsh joins the boys down in London to revisit Blink-182's 1999 breakthrough album. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys revisit the 2004 debut from Vegas pop giants The Killers. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The bold Mike Rice joins Chris to revisit Westlife's 2 x Platinum third record World Of Our Own. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Guest co-host Krystal Evans is back to delve into Nicki Minaj's smash third album. Enjoy!

Amy Matthews and guest host Krystal Evans join Liam to discuss Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, the 2015 debut from Melbourne's Courtney Barnett. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Stuart McPherson is back to discuss The National's second album this year with Chris at the Some Laugh studios. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Hot on the heels of its 40th anniversary rerelease in cinemas, the boys revisit Jonathan Demme's seminal concert film of Talking Heads on the Speaking In Tongues tour. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys review Mitski's emotionally raw seventh album. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Chris and guest co-host Ben Pope look back on Robbie Williams' 2001 contractually-obligated foray into swing music. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys go genius mode as they discuss the indie supergroup's long-awaited debut LP. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Fresh out the Fringe, the boys dissect this year's collaboration between producer Fred Again and godfather of ambience Brian Eno. Enjoy! *some brief audio issues occurred during recording, we can only apologise for the brief dips in quality* ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

This week's episode is a classic from the Patreon vault. “America then, as told by America now.” Lin Manuel-Miranda came from humble beginnings as the son of a simple political consultant and thinktank founder, but went on to write the script, music and lyrics to the most successful musical of the twenty-first century: HAMILTON: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL. A biography of America’s forgotten founding father, Alexander Hamilton, told through hip-hop inspired show tunes, Hamilton’s soundtrack album was ranked as one of the best of 2015 by Rolling Stone and Billboard magazine. Christopher and Liam listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes and cool digressions on everything from Hilary Clinton, Andor and the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Marc Jennings joins the boys to break down the art of a good pre-show playlist. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys look back to 2009 with the debut of indie pop collective The XX's debut. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Christopher is joined by guest host Rosco McClelland to dig into Michael Lee Aday and Jim Steinman's 1977 operatic rock classic. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Jellicle cats record jellicle casts as comedian and online sensation Eleanor Morton joins the boys to tear apart the 1998 cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Comedian and roastmaster Ryan Cullen joins the boys to dissect the official soundtrack to the classic 2000 video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys check out the latest from Australian psychedelic metal band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Enjoy!

Ed Night joins Da Ladz in the studio to talk about the third slice of fried Atlantan gold from Andre 3000 and Big Boi that is AQUEMINI by OUTKAST. You might know Ed from the fan-fiction podcast Slime Country, or from his incredible stand-up shows at the Fringe. Ed joins Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam to talk Hey Ya, his own musical career as a child, and the legal action taken by Rosa Parks in response to this record. ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The boys dig into the latest by American singer, rapper and actress Janelle Monáe. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Warwickshire’s greatest export and front-facing comedy video master Josh Pugh joins Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd for this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album where they listened to YOUTH AND YOUNG MANHOOD by KINGS OF LEON. The Oklahoma family band put a southern twist on the new york indie sleaze movement, starting a career that would see the good brothers both soundtrack FIFA 04 and open for Bob Dylan.  They talk about everything from the exact point that Kings of Leon got rubbish, to the time a bunch of pigeons did a shit in Jared Followill’s mouth mid-gig, as well as Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, Secret Posho, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!

*** Due to technical difficulties in the studio, the audio quality is not as crystal clear as it usually is. We hope you're still able to Enjoy A Podcast *** Twitter King and cinemaphile stand-up Chris Thorburn joins Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd for this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album where they listened to I’M WIDE AWAKE, IT’S MORNING by BRIGHT EYES. Moving from Omaha to New York in the wake of 9/11 and his own emerging stardom as the voice of a generation, this record and its singles defined a generation of sad thin indie-emo boys. They talk about everything from flying to meet your fiance sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth, to reading really arduous magazine articles about third world countries, as well as Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, Secret Posho, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

As a stop-gap measure - due to a technical mishap - this week’s public episode is from the ENJOY AN ALBUM For Ultras Only vault: “SING WHEN YOU’RE WINNING” by Stoke-on-Trent’s prodigal son ROBBIE WILLIAMS! Originally released on January 31st 2023, this episode is one of the bi-monthly Ultra exclusive episodes alongside episodes on albums like “The Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance, “-” by Ed Sheeran, “Permission To Land” by The Darkness, and many more.  Become an Ultra: www.patreon.com/enjoyanalbum Tickets to Liam Withnail’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/liam-withnail-chronic-boom Tickets to Christopher Macarthur-Boyd’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/christopher-macarthur-boyd-scary-times ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

The composer of seventy-three U.S. (and fifty-two U.K.!) top 40 hits, Burt Bacharach is hailed by such commentators as William Farina and Noel Gallagher as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. The god of jazzy bossa nova-inflected “easy listening” wrote banger after banger for artists such as Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, Perry Como, Dusty Springfield and, of course, Cilla Black. He also appeared in every instalment of Mike Myer’s comedic film franchise Austin Powers, including Goldmember and The Spy Who Shagged Me.  Aberdonian stand-up comedian and record store clerk John Aggasild joins us for a classic ep, with every feature from Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho, and even a return to Dreamsleeves, as well as a few features of his own. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Amelia Bayler (nu-rave snack food expert, stand-up comedian and pop-star in her own right) comes on the podcast to discuss the dance-rock opus MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE by KLAXONS. Named after a collection of short stories by sci-fi futurist J.G. Ballard, this record won the Mercury Music Prize with its winning blend of rave music and time-travelling lyricism that blew Klaxons up, leading to such feats as being on the soundtrack to Gran Turismo 5 Prologue for the Playstation 3.  This week Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Liam Withnail and Amelia Bayler listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. They shot on everything from Ministry of Sound to Skins parties and the evolution of indie’s relationship to dance music. All that plus Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and, as always, Secret Posho. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Liam is joined by Vittorio Angelone to discuss the sophomore album from Paisley's own Paolo Nutini. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Liam and guest co-host Stuart McPherson take a deep dive into the latest studio album from Sad Dad luminaries The National. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

METALLICA are the best-selling heavy metal group of all time, the leader of the Big Four of American Thrash, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd’s favourite band of all time, and responsible for some of the greatest sounds in the history of recorded music, as well as the worst. 72 SEASONS is the eleventh and latest album by the Four Horsemen, and features Diamond Head-ish first single LUX AETERNA as well INAMORATA, which at 11:10 clocks in as the longest track in their storied discography. Christopher and Liam Withnail listened to it this week, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring cool jokes and hot takes on everything from Some Kind Of Monster, Death Magnetic and Nick Cave’s Loverman, as well as beloved features such as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and Dreamsleeves. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Christopher and Liam rope Marc Jennings of the Some Laugh podcast into coming on the show to discuss Marshall Mathers’ third full-length record, THE EMINEM SHOW. Regarded by many as the last in a triptych of near-perfect albums by the 8 Mile-starring rapper, we did a deep dive on an album that defined the childhoods for wee guys born in the 90s, and discuss the shock culture of the time. The Enjoy An Album boys talk about everything from Mariah Carey’s voicemails to the soundtrack to the Sony Pictures film Venom (2018) as well as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Dreamsleeves, Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and somehow, The Bette Midler Factor returns. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored

Christopher and Liam listened to the new record by LANA DEL REY, and now they’re going to talk about it. Initially dismissed by the hipster cognoscenti as an industry plant and weathered by controversy, Elizabeth Grant’s nine-album spree of immaculate all-American art-pop has defied expectation and served gunt for over a decade. DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE’S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD has guest appearances out the wazoo, but really shines when it dives deeper into the blur between Lana’s persona and Lana’s person.  The Enjoy An Album boys talk about everything from Video Games to Lana’s time spent in Glasgow in 2013 when she bought some morning rolls from the Co-Op in Shawlands. Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Dreamsleeves, Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and so much more. Enjoy! ******************** Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored *********************

Christopher and Liam are joined by longtime-ultra AMY MATTHEWS to enjoy the 2006 U.K. megasmash ALRIGHT, STILL by nepo baby supreme LILY ALLEN. A thrilling debut of malevolent street-pop that swirls ska, reggae, oompah, Mike Skinner, rocksteady, entitlement and physical violence into catchy upbeat pop music.  They talk about everything from her Brooklyn townhouse and marriage with the guy who plays the policeman in Stranger Things to her ecstasy-slinging days in Ibiza, and much more including Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho and Unhinged YouTube Comment of The Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #Ad #Sponsored

Shetland legend Marjolein Robertson joins the Enjoy An Album boys this week to talk about her favourite childhood record - NELLY FURTADO’s worldbeat trip-hop bossa nova 2000 masterpiece WHOA, NELLY! Featuring big millennium hit singles like TURN OFF THE LIGHT, I’M LIKE A BIRD and … ON THE RADIO, the Portuguese-Canadian supernova’s debut album topped out at number two on the U.K. album chart but seared itself into the public consciousness.  This week on Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, we listened to WHOA, NELLY! by NELLY FURTADO and now we’re going to talk to Marjolein Robertson about it. We discuss why Marjo was banned from bringing this CD into her school, how Nelly Furtado’s collaboration with Timbaland coincided with her sexual awakening, and why The Hunter is her favourite album by Mastodon. All that plus hot takes, cool digressions, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #Ad #Sponsored

Teaming up with L.A. super-producer Greg Kurstin, the multi-simian multimedia project by Damon Albarn (Blur) and Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl) put out CRACKER ISLAND this year. Teeming with the requisite guest stars for a classic GORILLAZ record (Beck, Bad Bunny, Stevie Nicks, Thundercat, Tame Impala, etc.) and glistening with an overproduced glaze that sweetens the sadness and crowds out the genius, CRACKER ISLAND went to number one in the UK Album Chart.    This week on Enjoy An Album with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail, we listened to CRACKER ISLAND by GORILLAZ and now we’re going to talk about it. We discuss Zane Lowe’s mental interview with Damon Albarn, the secret posho status of Princess Siribha Chudabhorn, and the old HMV at the Glasgow Fort shopping centre. Hot takes, cool digressions, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #Ad #Sponsored

The sophomore record from Bono’s son’s band, who you might recognise from support slots for Sam Fender, Harry Styles and Arctic Monkeys, or for being Bono’s son’s band. Sam’s Town-style heartland rock mingles with strangely sexless Strokesian indie-sleaze post-punk and eighties new wave synthlines abound from this nepo baby god king, CUTS & BRUISES could leave you dry or be your new favourite band with tracks like If You’re Going To Break My Heart, Love Will Get You There and Dublin In Ecstacy. This week on Enjoy An Album with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail, we listened to CUTS & BRUISES by INHALER and now we’re going to talk about it. We discuss the guy Apple Music sends to interview bands when Zane Lowe is busy, our personal favourite nepo babies, and so much more. Hot takes, cool digressions, Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #Ad #Sponsored

An unabashed celebration of queer culture with samples of films by John Waters and Judy Garland’s Over The Rainbow, GLORIA by Sam Smith went to number one in the album charts this year in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom. The non-binary star’s collaborations with Kim Petras and “outrageous” fashion choices have drawn controversy from dull-brained weirdos across the world, but this album has been generally well-received, inviting comparisons to gay legends like George Michael. Sadly, it contains a feature by Ed Sheeran. This week on Enjoy An Album, we listened to GLORIA by SAM SMITH, and now we’re going to talk about GLORIA by SAM SMITH. We talk about Radiohead’s James Bond song, cleaning toilets, and Ed Sheeran. All that plus hot takes, cool digressions, Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week.

The 38th Greatest Hip-Hop Record of All Time (as well as the 115th Greatest Album of All Time, of any genre) according to Rolling Stone, GOOD KID, M.A.A.D. CITY transcends its specificity and realism with goated storytelling and bone-deep authenticity. Autobiographical and universal at the same time, K. Dot presents this record as a “A Short Film By Kendrick Lamar”, but it’s just as novelistic as cinematic, as a startling and sparkling bildungsroman a clef that tells the story of a young boy coming of age on the streets of Compton. This week we are joined by special guest Stephen Buchanan, a.k.a. Stevie B, a stand-up comedian, podcaster and sketch performer who you might recognise from BBC Scotland’s Queen of the New Year, or from Enjoy An Album’s sister podcast Some Laugh. All that plus hot takes, cool digressions, Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

Jarring post-punk guitar lines riddle this 2023 Paramore record, having more in common with the British indie-guitar rock of Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand than the scene-kid emo-core genre that originally spawned this group. THIS IS WHY teems with funky tight riffs and stop-start rhythms, which belie Hayley Williams’s darker mature songwriting that skewers the narcissism of the modern age. Featuring hot takes and digressions on everything from Billie Eilish convincing Hayley Williams to sing Misery Business again, to the ex-bass player Jeremy’s soundcloud rap project. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

The ninth best-selling album of all time both worldwide and in the U.S., Shania Twain’s COME ON OVER is also the sixteenth best-selling album in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Featuring blue-collar banger after blue-collar banger of arena-country hen-do pop smash hits produced by AC/DC and Def Leppard soundsmith Mutt Lange, Shania topped the charts time and time again with such singles as That Don’t Impress Me Much, Man! I Feel Like A Woman, and You’re Still The One. Featuring hot takes and digressions on everything from Riverdance, Brad Pitt and the album “Drones” by Muse. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

Final Fantasy VII enthusiast Gareth Waugh, largely considered the Cloud Strife of the Scottish comedy circuit, joins Liam and Christopher on this episode of Enjoy An Album to talk about the original soundtrack to the 1997 Japanese role-playing game FINAL FANTASY VII by groundbreaking video game composer Nobuo Uematsu. Described by Nobuo as “his greatest harvest” in terms of creativity, this soundtrack changed video game music forever with its blend of Stravinsky and Hendrix on the climactic showdown “One Winged Angel”. Featuring hot takes and digressions on everything from eco-terrorism, Sea Power’s soundtrack to Disco Elysium and a true crime segment delving into the teenage crimes of Liam’s younger brother with regards to a neighbour’s copy of Final Fantasy VII for the Playstation One. All that plus Secret Posho and a live Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

One of 2022’s best albums according to NPR, Rolling Stone and Brooklyn Vegan, this debut slab of post-punk-inflected psych-indie went to number one in the UK charts and won fans across the world from Edgar Wright to Elton John. Skewering soft bois and bashing boring parties, this Isle of Wight duo followed up on the viral success of Chaise Longue with the masturbatory fantasies of Wet Dream and the dry hedonism of Angelica - “good times all the time” indeed. This week Christopher and Liam listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes and cool digressions on everything from the exact size of the Isle of Wight, Urban Outfitters and indie sleaze. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

The fourth Joker card in the initial Dark Carnival mythos created by Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J, 1997’s THE GREAT MILENKO went platinum even as the record was pulled from shelves by a skittish record company. Protested by social conservatives, the Insane Clown Posse pleased their army of juggalos with a sixteen-track opus bursting with puerile skits, chintzy carnival beats, gross-out humour, inclusive vibes, and guest spots from shock-rock icons like Alice Cooper, Slash and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols.  Regarded by some of as the best album in the Insane Clown Posse discography, this week Liam and Christopher listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes and cool digressions on everything from South Park, Motown, Eminem, religion and the novels of Bret Easton Ellis. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and an eye-opening edition of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! Check out the Patreon! Extra Episodes, Ad Free, Pre Sale - and more! https://www.patreon.com/EnjoyAnAlbum Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #sponsored #ad

Generally regarded as one of the greatest albums of the noughties by the likes of Pitchfork, , this two-disc instrumental post-rock symphony by a gaggle of Canadian anarcho-Marxists is the soundtrack to the apocalypse. Samples of old men mourning the halcyon days of their youth spent sleeping at the beach on Coney Island mingle with stirring cinematic strings, scraping industrial drone and wild swirling shoegaze guitar on LIFT YR SKINNY FISTS LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN (2000).   This episode on Enjoy An Album, Christopher and Liam listened to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and now they’re going to talk about it, as well as the way most record labels are owned by the same corporations that own weapons manufacturers, and what differentiates Godspeed from other post-rock bands like Mogwai and Explosions In The Sky. All that, plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!   Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #sponsored #ad

Abandoning their D.I.Y. roots in San Francisco to go global with their major label debut, Green Day welded megaton bomb pop-hooks to the scrappy queer punk of 924 Gilman Street to bring raucous juvenilia to the masses on DOOKIE. Fun at a time when the rock landscape was dominated by dour and serious arena-grunge, Green Day went from slumming it in squats to being the biggest band in America in just one album. This record was chosen by this week’s guest Krystal Evans, a dry dark American stand-up living in Edinburgh who has appeared on BBC Scotland and hosted the now-defunct Roseanne podcast, Creamed Corn at the Lunchbox.  This episode on Enjoy An Album, Christopher and Liam listened to DOOKIE and now they’re going to talk about everything from barbeque food to George W Bush. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!   Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #sponsored #ad

The closest Nina Simone ever came to pop, before her civil rights activism, black nationalism and Marxism led to her being blackballed from the mainstream. Featuring stunning interpretations of everything from showtunes and blues workouts to the French balladry of Charles Azvanour, I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (1965) showcases her inimitable blend of classically-trained piano, smoky jazz-contralto and steely vulnerability that demolished the stereotype of the “angry black woman”.   This week on Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd we talk all about I PUT A SPELL ON YOU, as well as the ‘recent’ Netflix documentary about her life and the ethics of using music in advertising. All that, plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, the obligatory mention of Muse, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!  Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20  #sponsored #ad Show less

Drunk puerile hooky skate-punk that inspired Blink-182 and Sum 41 but refused to make any concessions to commercialism or good taste, PUNK IN DRUBLIC found Fat Mike in fine form. This was chosen as the album to enjoy by special guest Rosco Mcclelland who was a punk drummer in bands like Kicking Buckets, Bandito Fleeto and Psyko Dalek before becoming a Twitch stream nightshifter and capable stand-up comedian.   This week on Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd we talk about it and we also do Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!  Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 #sponsored #ad

Matty Healy has lit up timelines with nepo-baby discourse and the kissing of teenage girls, but his pop band The 1975’s latest album BEING FUNNY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE has been described as one of the best records of 2022 by Pitchfork, NME, Dork and the Los Angeles Times. The album is accompanied by an arena world tour called “The 1975: At Their Very Best” and is choc-a-bloc with maximalist Antonoffian toffee-apple production, dirty Warren Ellis violin solos, Japanese Breakfast guest vocal lines, bravura chorus-craft and third-hand LCD Soundsystem lifts.  This week on Enjoy An Album with Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd we talk about it and then we do Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

Combining Vince Guaraldi’s laid-back Brubeck-esque San Fran jazz-piano with the existential yuletide sadness of the fictional bald child Charlie Brown, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s A Charlie Brown Christmas was ranked by centrist rag The Guardian as the Greatest Christmas Album of All Time. This episode features Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail talking about everything from Arrested Development to Kamasi Washington, and features Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and a special edition of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!

Rolling Stone magazine named “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac as the 7th Greatest Album of All Time in 2022. The amount of cocaine involved in the record was matched only by the amount of incestuous infidelity, harrowing heartbreak, and gentle genius generated by the band members at the time. It immediately sold twenty million copies upon its release, and has went on to sell platinum twenty times over. The wee guy on the front cover has a dangly pair of chestnuts where his balls would be if he wasn’t wearing trousers. This record was chosen by this week’s special guest, Jay Lafferty. As well as being a member of the Enjoy An Album Ultras, Jay is one of the best comedians in Scotland. You might recognise her from the topical panel show BBC Breaking The News, where one of her bits made the front page of the New York Times. She’s performed stand-up all over the world from Los Angeles to Reykjavik, but this week she’s doing Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week with Liam Withnail. Enjoy!

Mashing up elements of riot grrl punk, Bananarama plastic pop and outright eurosceptic Thatcherism, Spice Girls outsold the Beatles and swerved Britain’s charts away from the Blurs, Oasises and Pulps into a future of Little Mix and Fifth Harmony. Spiceworld was the Spice Girls’ second album, but shared a title with the 1997 film co-starring Richard E. Grant and Meat Loaf alongside the Fab Five, as well as the 1998 Playstation One game where up to 15 mixes, dance routines and TV studio recordings can be saved on one memory card.  Liam and Christopher have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes and cool comments on Spiceworld’s greatest moments, as well as regular features such as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy!

Recorded over five years as Kanye climbed up the lord’s ladder by getting signed to Roc-A-Fella Records and established himself as the best new producer in early-00s hip-hop by popularizing chipmunk soul samples, before proving himself as a unique artist capable of fusing conscious rap’s social politics with proto-hustle culture megalomania. The College Dropout is chock full of skits, guests and bangers - Jesus Walks, Through The Wire, Two Words. Twenty years before the MAGA hats and the anti-semitism, it’s very much the beginning of Kanye’s story.   Liam couldn’t make it this week, so Christopher had special guest Shane Todd in Monkey Barrel Studios in Edinburgh. Shane is a stand-up comedian and podcaster from Northern Ireland who has done live support for Kevin Hart and Bill Burr, as well as his own solo tours across America, Ireland and the U.K. Christopher and he went scarf-shopping in Galway, once. Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

Generally regarded as the best heavy metal album of the 21st century, Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian of System Of A Down expertly blended alt-skuzz riffage, anti-imperialism, sunshine state harmonies, Armenian genocide awareness and Zappa-esque absurdism to make Toxicity - a perfect statement of intent that perfectly predicted the terrorist attacks that took place in New York on September 11th 2001. Christopher and Liam listened to it this week, so now they’re going to talk about mosher shops, the exact definition of nu-metal, and System of a Down’s historic Yerevan live performance in 2015 where they played before the Armenian Genocide Centennial. Featuring Secret Posho, Dreamsleeves, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and much much more!

 Before her collaborations with Conor Oberst, The 1975, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker made her the undisputed queen of sad indie folk-pop of the last few years, Phoebe Bridgers made a statement and a splash with this debut record of wry sun-bleached confessional songcraft that’s as funny as it is morbid. Named after a line from the edited-for-TV version of The Big Lebowski, Stranger In The Alps inhabits that same leisurely yet lachrymose Californian mood of stoned numbness and strange sexuality as that film. Making headlines with its diss track Motion Sickness that pulled up shamed songster Ryan Adams for emotional cruelty, the album functions as a stunning collection of lovelorn heartbreak, documenting that abuse as well as the end of her relationship with the drummer and co-writer on most of these songs, Marshall Vore.  Receiving a perfect score on its release in 2017 from A.V. Club, Stranger In The Alps also popped up in year-end lists by The Fader, Noisey, Bandcamp and Uproxx. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it this week, and now they’re going to Enjoy An Album. Featuring hot takes and cool points on everything from Bright Eyes, Pixies and Twin Peaks to Angela Deane and Angel Olsen, as well as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy!  Follow the Enjoy an Album companion playlist! APPLE MUSIC: www.enjoyaplayli.st SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sh...   Follow the lads on Social Media Liam Withnail  Twitter: www.twitter.com/liamwithnail Instagram: www.instagram.com/liamwithnail Christopher Macarthur - Boyd Twitter: https://twitter.com/macarthurboyd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macarthur.b... Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20

Forming in 1997 and fumbling through line-ups featuring Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell on bass and an elderly jazz musician on drums, The Libertines were signed to legendary indie label Rough Trade in 2001. They were supposed to be the British equivalent of The Strokes, but they were so much more. Pete Doherty and Carl Barat shared songwriting duties as well as needles, with the rambunctiousness of their live shows matched only by the fistfights, robberies and cocaine consumption in their personal lives. Up The Bracket was their brilliant debut album, puncturing the timid wank of post-Britpop U.K. rock and paving the way for an avalanche of copycats that would be known collectively as ‘landfill indie’.   Up The Bracket is the album we’ve enjoyed this week. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, so now they’re going to talk about everything from the difference between a trilby and a fedora, to the exact pubs in Camden where Doherty and Barat rubbed shoulders with the likes of Amy Winehouse and Liam’s friend Pat. Hot takes and cool points aplenty, featuring Unhinged Facebook Comment of the Week, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho, List-o-mania and all new additions to the Enjoy An Album playlist. Enjoy!  Follow the Enjoy an Album companion playlist! APPLE MUSIC: www.enjoyaplayli.st  SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7shi4G560wBcVlG5JDNPEb?si=2cc63aa594cb46c7   Thanks to this weeks Sponsors MANSCAPED Manscaped | https://manscaped.com 20% off with the promo code: ALBUM20 Follow the lads on Social Media Liam Withnail  Twitter: www.twitter.com/liamwithnail Instagram: www.instagram.com/liamwithnail Christopher Macarthur - Boyd Twitter: https://twitter.com/macarthurboyd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macarthur.boyd/

Harvey Keitel starred in the film “That’s The Way Of The World” that this record functions as a soundtrack to, but Maurice White and the rest of Earth, Wind & Fire sensed that it was going to be a box office flop, so they pushed for it to be released before the premiere. They were correct. The album went to number one in the Billboard charts, whereas the movie became a “lost film.” Signalling a shift from Earth, Wind & Fire’s early career and beginning their mid-70s “ornate” period that would include hits like September, this record was described by LA Weekly as “serious romantic music to wear silk bellbottom slacks to.” That’s The Way Of The World is also the 420th Greatest Album Of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, and now they’re going to Keitel it up. Featuring hot takes and digressions on everything from MDMA to being hospitalised mid-pod, plus Secret Posho and Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy!

The seventh album by Arctic Monkeys finds Alex Turner and the lads continuing the lounge-rock direction that began on 2018’s Tranquillity Base Hotel & Casino with a tight taut song cycle of baroque longing and cinematic style. Disappointing certain fans who hungered for the arch desert riffage of Humbug or the slick maximalist swagger of AM, The Car instead offers a dazzling smorgasbord of impenetrable inside jokes, straight-faced flared trouser funk and uber-vulnerable falsetto declarations of luxury loneliness. Due to extenuating circumstances, the podcast flies sans-Liam Withnail this week for a special non-list episode with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd instead discussing the record in question with Fife’s own Stuart McPherson. Stuart is an actor and story producer of BBC Scotland’s Scot Squad, as well as a stand-up comedian and co-host of the podcasts What’s The Script? and Some Laugh. Enjoy!

Two years before her megahit Paper Planes made her a global celebrity, M.I.A. (or Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam) combined electroclash, baile funk, peng teng, dancehall, grime and ragga in 2005 to make Arular - a debut album named after and inspired by her freedom fighter father Arulappu Richard Arulpragasam. Released by XL Recordings and partially produced by awful man Diplo, Arular was nominated for the Mercury Prize and went on to be listed by Pitchfork as the 54th greatest album of the noughties. Arular is also the 421st Greatest Album Of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it and now they’re going to galang it up. Featuring hot takes, digressions and cross arguments on subjects such as System Of A Down, Justine Frischmann, Justine Frischmann’s father, Peaches, Pineapple Express, and the state-sanctioned ethnic cleansing of the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan government. All that plus TWO Secret Poshos, Unhinged YouTube Comment Of The Week, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Two years after decisively capturing the zeitgeist of civil unrest with What’s Going On?, five years before he would release the incredibly divorced masterpiece Here, My Dear, and eleven years before he would be shot to death by his own father, Marvin Gaye redefined American sexuality with his 1973 coitus album Let’s Get It On. The wah-wah guitar in the intro to the title track has become memefied so heavily that it no longer bears resemblance to an aphrodisiac, but the rest of the record still hits hard as an iconic neat slab of quiet storm funk-inflected baby-making music. Aggregate site Acclaimed Music has listed Let’s Get It On as the 215th most critically acclaimed record in the history of music. Let’s Get It On is also the 422nd Greatest Album Of All Time according to Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means that Christopher and Liam have listened to it and now they’re going to caress the topic with care and attention. Featuring digressions and hot takes on everything from the Yang Yang Twins, White Zombie, The Matrix Reloaded, Ed Sheeran and Aphex Twin, as well as Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week and the Bette Midler Factor. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have been married and making music together as Yo La Tengo for over thirty years at this point, but in the spring of 1997 they recorded their magnum opus - “I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One”. They put Hoboken on the indie map around this time with legendary Hannakuh residencies at a bar called Maxwell’s and collaborated on music videos with local alt-comedy luminaries David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. Containing krauty motorik jamming, fuzzy trip-bop and noisey blasts of scuzz alongside the more traditional straightforward indie rock guitar music, I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One is generally regarded as the best Yo La Tengo record, and is the most commercially successful LP from their oeuvre. I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One is also the 423rd Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means that Christopher and Liam have listened to it and now they’re going to get their autumn sweaters on and smash it up octopad-style. Featuring digressions and hot takes on everything from Mr Magoo, Girl Talk, Mr Show with Bob & David, Ghetto Superstar and The Sounds of The Sounds of Science as well as Secret Posho, Is This Emo? And Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!

The son of an experimental artist and a Scientologist composer, Beck Hansen cut his teeth in the New York anti-folk scene before returning to L.A. in the late 80s as an alternative freakfolker in a sea of hairspray and spandex. He broke into the mainstream just after Kurt Cobain’s death with his hit single Loser - a genre-melding combo of hip-hop, honky tonk and grunge that rode the zeitgeist like it was a seaside pony. Odelay proved that Loser wasn’t a fluke. It was named the album of the year in 1996 Village Voice Pazz & Jop list, as well as by Spin magazine, NME and Rolling Stone. Odelay is also the 424th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have done a deep dive on it and now they’re going to wax it up sissyneck-style. Featuring digressions and hot takes on everything from King of Queens, Johnny Cash, Korn, Muppets In Space, Futurama and Sex Bob-Ombs. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, Is This Emo?, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and the Bop Shop Test. Enjoy!

Everybody thought Art Garfunkel was going to be the Shawn Michaels of Art & Garfunkel, but - as we all know now - he was the Marty Jannetty. Paul Simon’s self-titled 1972 solo album didn’t sell well compared to Bridge Over Troubled Water or even as well as Graceland eventually would, but it proved to the world that he was truly the brains behind A&G. Combining his trademark fingerstyle folk with inflections of reggae, blues and Latin rhythms, it won a Record of the Year award from Stereo Review magazine. Paul Simon’s Paul Simon is also the 425th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher and Liam have done a deep dive on it and now they’re going to bash it up hobo-style. Featuring digressions on everything from !!!, radical priests, Julios, schoolyards, losing your virginity in a forest clearing to a religious preacher girl, and chinese food. All that plus the return of Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, Is This Emo? and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!

Released on Rough Trade Records in 1988, Lucinda Williams’ self-titled third album is considered by some to be the birth of alt-country. Ignored by the world at large but critically adored, the album was out of print for many years until it was re-released twenty-five years later. Although somewhat overshadowed in Lucinda’s discography by her magnum opus Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, every single song on this album has been covered by her peers, including Tom Petty, Patty Loveless, Katey Chambers, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Slimcock Bumblebee Balls. Lucinda Williams is also the 426th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher and Liam have done a deep dive on it and now they’re going to smash it up crazy-style. Featuring cool jokes and hot takes on everything from passionate kisses to poems about Adam’s dick, as well as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho and new segment Is This Emo? Enjoy an album. Enjoy!

Two years before he blasted out his Greatest Hits in 1975, Al Green released Call Me - a sumptuous chunk of Memphis soul. Including renditions of heartrending country ballads So Lonesome I Could Cry by Hank Williams and Funny How Time Slips Away by Willie Nelson, it also includes world-beating originals such as You Ought To Be With Me, which was later sampled by Ghostface Killah on his debut album Ironman. Here I Am (Come And Take Me) and Call Me (Come Back Home) were top ten hits on the Billboard Chart, and it was the third soul record to reach number one on the album charts. Call Me is also the 427th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher and Liam have done a deep dive on it and now they’re going to lay it down serious-style. Featuring cool jokes and hot takes on everything from the Japanese post-rock band Mono’s recent performance in Lisbon, to why in God’s name Al Green has three separate records on the list, as well as the poor reviewing style of Bruce Springsteen collaborator Jon Landau. All that plus Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, plus new segments Is This Emo? and Heartwarming Reddit Post of the Week. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Proto-grunge post-hardcore St Paul punkers Hüsker Dü stood out from the macho-masochism that defined SST Records and their independent ilk with a strain of guitar rock that was emotionally intelligent and predictability-averse. By combining the methamphetamine speed and buzzsaw riffage of early Black Flag and the Ramones with the jangly melodies and harmonies of the Byrds and the Beatles, they successfully predicted the sound of Pixies and Nirvana - but several years too early, and without the world-beating commercial success - on their third studio album New Day Rising.  New Day Rising is also the 428th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so Christopher and Liam have done a deep dive on it and now they’re going to do it up serious-style. Featuring cool takes as well as hot takes on everything from Connect 4 to the Late Show with Joan Rivers, plus a slightly homophobic YouTube Comment of the Week, a contentious Secret Posho and a dynamite edish of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

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The last Motown record to be crafted by the legendary trio of Holland, Dozier & Holland before they hit it and quit, Reach Out was a crossover smash racially by blending Levi Stubbs’ terse soulful howl with white pop covers like If I Were A Carpenter and I’m A Believer. With titanic slabs of perfect emo anguish like Standing In The Shadow Of Love, Bernadette and the title track - as well as the absolutely class haunted house proto-goth nonsense of 7-Rooms Of Gloom - the Four Tops proved they were the perfect soundtrack to any true heartbreak. It’s also the 429th Greatest Album Of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine, so this week Christopher and Liam listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring digressions and embellishments on everything from Billy Bragg to the 2011 Bannerman High School version of the musical Little Shop Of Horrors. All that plus Secret Posho and YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 in Monkey Barrel Studios on August 6th! Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to nu-metal classic Meteora by Linkin Park, which is somehow not on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It is, however, the highest selling album in the history of the Billboard Alternative Chart and has sold over 17 million copies internationally. The Enjoy An Album boys did a deep dive on the band and the album, and talked about everything from Chinese superfans of Chester Bennington to BBC Hard Spell, the British spelling bee championships hosted by Eamon Holmes in 2004. All that plus Secret Posho, YouTube Comment of the Week and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy! Live!

An overnight success after seven years of plugging away on the London pub-rock circuit, Declan Patrick McManus took on the nom de plume Elvis Costello as a pop-art statement of intent. My Aim Is True was recorded in 1977 six separate four-hour sessions with an all-American session band who would go on to be The News alongside Huey Lewis. Too angry to be new wave - and too clever to be truly punk - My Aim Is True is generally considered to be one of the greatest debut albums of all time. My Aim Is True is also #430 on the Rolling Stones magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd have done a deep dive on it. Featuring hot takes on everything from Lost In Translation to Elvis’ Dad Sings Elvis and Costello’s infamous racist tirade, as well as Secret Posho and YouTube Comment of the Week. All that and more on this week’s Enjoy An Album!

Arguably the best wedding band in the history of East L.A., Los Lobos stood out on a punk scene full of primitive rockers like The Blasters and X with their blend of rootsy rockabilly and traditional tex-mex balladeering. Named after a headline on the front cover of National Geographic magazine and produced by T-Bone Burnett, How Will The Wolf Survive? raised Los Lobos’ profile to the point that they soundtracked La Bamba, the motion picture retelling of Ritchie Valens’ life story. How Will The Wolf Survive? is also #431 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd have done a deep dive on it. Featuring hot takes on everything from Reggae Elvis to the number eighty-eight being tattooed on a friend of a friend, as well as Secret Posho, Quizzzz, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. All that and more on this week’s Enjoy An Album!

Teaming up with Lil Jon for a crunkified version of his signature smooth R&B sound on Yeah, Usher then spends the rest of this 2004 album confessing his sins - not only is he cheating on his girlfriend, but his sidepiece has just let him know that she’s pregnant and the baby is his. What a story! Interestingly, the concept behind the album is a complete invention for the sake of buzz; the incident was borrowed by Usher from his collaborator Jermaine Dupri and extrapolated across such hits as Burn and Caught Up. The gambit worked - Confessions was the second best-selling album of the noughties, trailing only behind NSYNC’s No Strings Attached. Confessions is also #432 on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, which means Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes on everything from sacred geometry, T-Pain, tiny desks, Edgar Allan Poe and 9/11, as well as Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Quiz and Secret Posho. All that and more on this week’s Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Spending over a decade in New York as a perennial indie-rock no-hoper sound engineer, James Murphy reinvented himself in his early 30s as LCD Soundsystem. He established himself as a self-effacing obscuro-muso king on his debut two-disc self-titled record, but it was his sophomore effort that would be his magnum opus. Sound Of Silver threw back to the transgressive sounds of the seventies and the ironic sensibilities of nineties slacker culture, but the powerful one-two punch of Someone Great and All My Friends punctured the sarcasm and defined the noughties for a burgeoning breed of hipsters in Brooklyn and further afield. Sound Of Silver is also #423 on the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list by Rolling Stone magazine, which means Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes on everything from Raytheon, Kraftwerk, Metro Area, Faithless, therapy and plagiarism, as well as a scintillating edition of Secret Posho and a surprisingly fair incarnation of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. All that and more, plus YouTube Comment of the Week, on this week’s Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

After parting ways with their rambunctious older drummer Gary Young, slacker-gods Pavement followed a promising run of EP’s and a killer debut album (heavily indebted to English post-punk bands like The Fall and Swell Maps) with Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - a wry sunstroken take on 70’s classic rock through the lens of the American independent underground. Featuring their biggest hits Cut Your Hair and Gold Soundz, Stephen Malkmus and his crew cemented themselves on this record as the zeitgeist-riding stars of the ironic indie age. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is also #424 on the Greatest Albums of All Time list by Rolling Stone, which means Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring digressions on Fopp, Purple Rain, Metallica, Modest Mouse, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, and the beef between Stormzy and Wiley from a few years ago. Featuring Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo and YouTube Comment of the Week, this is Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Former music journalist Neil Tennant and trainee architect Chris Lowe bonded after a chance encounter in a hi-fi shop, before a meeting with legendary hi-NRG disco producer Bobby Orlando led to the formation of what would become the most successful British pop duo of all time. Initially thought to be a one-hit-wonder novelty act after the queer-noir proto-rap of ‘West End Girls’, The Pet Shop Boys instead proved their potential for longevity and consistent quality with early records like 1987’s Actually. Actually is also #425 on the Greatest Albums of All Time list by Rolling Stone, which means Liam Withnail and CMB have listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring tangents on Dusty Springfield, Margaret Thatcher, Glastonbury 2022, Jimmy Tarbuck, Metallica, and Carling Black Label, plus Secret Posho and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Less than a year before he was supposedly drive-by’d to death in Las Vegas, 2Pac released the double album All Eyez On Me on Death Row Records. Fresh out of jail for sexual assault and sodomy, Tupac Shakur wrote and recorded this two-disc west coast classic in less than a fortnight. Collaborating with Death Row luminaries such as Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre, as well as funk legends like Roger Troutman and George Clinton, 2Pac packed “All Eyez On Me” with hits like California Love and How Do You Want It before ultimately faking his own death and living peacefully for decades in Cuba. “All Eyez On Me” is also #426 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, so Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring hot takes on everything from Adam Curtis’ narration to the difference between a vocoder and AutoTune. All that plus Secret Posho and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Bobby Gillespie’s Primal Scream were a bog standard indie-rock band until they were introduced to MDMA and collaborated with acid house DJ Andrew Weatherall on a track called “Loaded” which took a rubbish ballad from their previous album and remixed it into an eccied rave-up. “Screamadelica” followed - a diverse concept record of gospel, post-punk, soul and blues that charts the ecstasy and the agony of the ultimate night out with joyous highs and terrifying comedowns. Melody Maker said it was the best album of 1991, and it won the inaugural Mercury Prize too. “Screamadelica is also #427 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, so Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to do a deep dive on everything from the wee freaky LSD sun on the album cover to the incredible backing vocals of Denise Johnson. All that plus Secret Posho, and YouTube Comment of the Week. Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

£60,000 in debt after an ill-conceived American tour and having released two albums that didn’t quite make the splash that they wanted, Colchester bad boys Blur were about as penniless as the privately educated can be. Fully turning away from the baggy sound of their debut and sticking two fingers up at the skuzzed-out U.S. grunge that dominated music journalism (as well as the po-faced shy fuzz of U.K. shoegaze) with a sound and attitude that embraced the history of excellent English rock music from The Kinks to Cardiacs. Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and the drummer guy who’s a Labour MP now won five separate Brit Awards for “Parklife” - an exploration of what it meant to be young, dumb and full of Britishness in the early-to-mid-nineties. “Parklife” is also #438 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to do a deep dive on everything from what it means to be Coxonpilled, to Alex James’ collaboration with Asda on their ‘exotic cheddar’ collection. All that plus an extremely Hinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and an interesting Secret Posho. Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Fellas, I’m ready to get up and do my thing. (Yeah, that’s right! Do it!) I want to get into it, man, you know? (Go ahead! Yeah!) Like a podcast machine, man. (Yeah!) “Sex Machine” by James Brown is a half-fake live album of overdubbed ersatz crowd noise atop pitch-perfect “on-the-one” funk jam bliss, that went on to influence the likes of Fela Kuti. Recorded at the apex of the “Popcorn” dance craze, these two sides capture James Brown before and after his backing band changed from the “classic” line-up to the arguably better one featuring bass playing by p-funk superstar Bootsy Collins and his brother Catfish. It’s also #439 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, so Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to do a deep-dive on everything from Browns’ appearance in the 2002 Jackie Chan film The Tuxedo, to the low points of his behaviour with angeldust and domestic violence. All that plus another unfruitful Secret Posho and an absolutely wild YouTube Comment Of The Week. Enjoy An Album! Enjoy. 

Loretta Lynn was born a humble coal miner’s daughter in rural Kentucky, but went on to win a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was eventually a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by noted centrist drone-strike enthusiast Barack Obama. “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was her sixteenth and most celebrated album, featuring the autobiographical title track as well as covers by country legends like Kris Kristofferson and Conway Twitty. A brilliant example of the countrypolitan Nashville Sound, with accompaniment by the legendary session musicians of the Nashville a-team, it cemented her career as one of the all-time greats of country western music. It’s also #440 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, so Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail have listened to it, and now they’re going to do a deep dive on everything from the YouTube documentary “Loretta Lynn’s Haunted Plantation” to her late-career collaborations with Zorro On Donuts himself, Jack White. All that plus an unfruitful Secret Posho and an extra-special edition of Quizzzzz. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Although it barely dented the charts compared to the mega-smashes of her Miss American teen dreams, Britney teamed up with the likes of Pharrel Williams, Robyn and Junkie XL for her fifth album, ‘Blackout’. Recorded between her divorce with back-up dancer Kevin Federline and the conservatorship dispute that plagued her thirties, this 2007 collection of forward-thinking electro-bangers both charted the abyss of TMZ celebrity and predicted the future of pop to come. It’s hard to imagine the chilly sex-positive electropop of Lady Gaga’s Telephone without this coming first, and mid-LP sleeper success ‘Freakshow’ implemented the then-burgeoning sound of second-wave dubstep years before Skrillex dabbled in mainstream wub-wubs.  ‘Blackout’ is also #441 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher and Liam discuss everything from the Netflix documentary Britney Vs Spears, to our childhood reminsces of Britney hits like Hit Me Baby One More Time, Toxic and Slave 4 U. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, the Bette Midler Factor, Unhinged Youtube Comment of the Week, and so much more. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Cocaine! Torontonian sex-jammer Abel Tesfaye combined moody dream-pop samples with the Ethopian music that soundtracked his youth to become The Weeknd: a purveyor of glassy-eyed cum-soaked nihilistic R&B that set the indiesphere on fire in the early 10s with the ‘House of Balloons’ trilogy of underground EPs. After a flailing start with 2013’s flat ‘Kiss Land’, he made the leap to Super Bowl-level stardom with ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’ in 2015. Featuring collaborations with Max Martin, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Ray and Kanye West, it established Tesfaye as the non-sexless non-white actually-good counterpart to Justin Timberlake’s beige-fisted domination of mainstream party music. ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’ is also #442 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher and Liam discuss everything from why Ed Sheeran deserves to die, to The Weeknd’s recent 2022 record ‘Dawn FM’. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, the Bette Midler Factor, and so much more. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Sandwiched between the raw kraut-pop of his late-seventies Berlin period and the 1981 ultra-plastic megatunes of Let’s Dance, “Scary Monsters And Super Creeps” is regarded by many as a transitional record. But the sheer palpable fearful bile that Bowie had for the shiny young pretenders of the burgeoning New Romantic movement made for cringingly moreish art. Tony Visconti and Robert Fripp would never work with him again after this audacious suite of self-pitying anthems (“Ashes To Ashes”), fascist funk jams (“Fashion”) and outright verbal jabs at Gary Numan (“Teenage Wildlife”). Scary Monsters and Super Creeps is also #443 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail talk about everything from the merits and drawbacks of screaming in music to funny things that old men have said on beaches. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Unhinged Youtube Comment of the Week, Bette Midler Factor and so much more! Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

Postponed for years by Epic Records who thought that it lacked commercial appeal, early demos and bootlegs from Extraordinary Machine were eventually leaked forcing the label to “Free Fiona”. Originally produced by Paul Thomas Anderson collaborator Jon Brion and then later mastered by Mike Elizondo, Extraordinary Machine is a hard-nosed alt-pop record filled with odd percussion, biting lyrics and loungey venom. It’s also #444 on Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means it’s time for Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd to Enjoy An Album. They talk about everything from Zach Galifinakis’ lip-synching to Philip Seymour Hoffman’s wonderful son, as well as managing to squeeze in Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo and Secret Posho. All that and more on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Bill Bruford quit playing drums for Yes after they released “Close To The Edge” in 1972 to shack up with Robert Fripp in King Crimson, citing the trouble they had composing music due to the different social backgrounds of the various members as a contributing factor. Some have wrongly speculated that he left due to the overly ambitious nature of the record - a three-track suite of long, complicated prog adventure that combines the sunshine harmonies of Californian pop with the orchestral scope of classical music and the psychedelic skuzz of late-sixties English blues rock. “Close To The Edge” is listed as #445 on Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time which means it’s time for Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd to Enjoy An Album. They talk about everything from Rick Wakeman’s prog-on-ice Wembley show known as “The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table” to the Yes-themed sea-faring convention aboard the Royal Carribean’s Mariner of the Sea known as Cruise To The Edge. All that plus Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and much much more. Enjoy!

Alice Coltrane described the period after her husband John’s death as ‘tapas’ - a Sanskrit word meaning ‘a painful and austere ordeal’. This avant-garde fusion of modal post-bop jazz and traditional Indian drone music is the process of grief writ large - teaming up with fellow members of her late husband’s band including ace drummer Rashied Ali and multiphonic saxophonist extraordinaire Pharoah Sanders. Together they pay tribute to John Coltrane’s life with a surprisingly accessible experimental Hindu jazz odyssey that incorporates the harp, the oud and the tanpura named after Alice’s spiritual king, Swami Satchidananda. “Journey In Satchidananda” is listed as #446 on Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time which means it’s time for Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd to enjoy it. They talk about everything from chocolate covered crisps to Ganesh, as well as Pharoah Sanders’ recent collaboration with the electronic musician Floating Points and the London Symphony Orchestra, and the sexual assault allegations made against the titular swami. All that, plus Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Secret Posho, Unhinged YouTube Comment of the Week, and much much more. Enjoy!

First making waves in his native Puerto Rico as a viral teenage Soundcloud rapper, Bad Bunny’s winningly emo-adjacent blend of reggaeton and trap music blew up the charts internationally with a series of uncompiled solo singles and guest appearances on tracks by artists such as Cardi B, Will Smith and Ricky Martin. However, his manager and labelhead DJ Luian refused to let him record an actual LP. In 2018, he separated from Luian’s record company and released “X 100pre”, meaning “por siempre” or “forever” - a genre-blending song cycle featuring collaborations with Drake, Diplo and La Alfa. “X 100pre” is also listed as #447 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. This week stand-up comedians Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail did a deep dive on it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring discussions on everything from Bad Bunny’s brand collaboration with Cheetos to fond reminiscing on the week we spent listening to fellow reggaeton star Daddy Yankee, as well as Bad Bunny’s status as arguably the greatest ever celebrity Wrestlemania competitor. All that and more plus an exciting edition of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, a classic Secret Posho, and much much more. Enjoy!

On October 15th, Volt released ‘Complete And Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul’, otherwise known as ‘Dictionary Of Soul’. Fourteen months later he would die in a plane crash that claimed the life of his entire backing group, bar the trumpet player. The record’s supple muscular Memphis soul take on ‘Day Tripper’ by the beautiful Paul McCartney and his evil sideman John Lennon, as well as ‘Try A Little Tenderness’, mark it as a glimpse at what could have been as well as an all-time classic in its own right. It’s also listed as #448 on Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. This week comedians Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail did a deep dive on it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes the boys on everything from ‘Watch The Throne’ by Kanye West & Jay Z to ‘Psycho Killer’ by the Talking Heads. All that plus Secret Posho, and much much more. Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

While playing as a drummer for local Detroit bands such as Two Star Tabernacle and The Go, John Gillis took his ex-wife’s maiden name and retitled himself Jack White. He formed a two-piece with Meg, told everybody that he was her sister, and single-handedly reinvented electric American roots music in his own peppermint-bespoke image. Utilising the minimalistic principles he learned as an upholsterer, it took seven years and four albums for The White Stripes to truly breakthrough into the mainstream with Elephant. It’s also the 449th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine in 2021. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from crypto-thur macarthur-coin, Berry Gordy’s cum-thirsty madness, what Meg is short for, woke legends, pretentiousness, uniforms, vinyl, and many other things. All that plus: Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, and many other bits. Enjoy an album. Enjoy!

After a turn as the bass player for obscure Liverpudlian rock ensemble The Beatles, Paul McCartney figuratively reinvented himself after an entirely amicable band break-up by moving to rural Scotland and actually-inventing the sounds and aesthetics of “indie-pop” at least a decade and a half before that term came into popular use. “Ram” was brutally dismissed by the superstar rock critics of the day as well as Ringo Starr and John Lennon, but the collaboration between Paul and his wife Linda has since undergone a kinder and fairer revaluation by the likes of Pitchfork and the world at large. Ram is also the 450th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine in 2021. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes from the boys on subjects as varied as bad breath and smiling to vegetarian sausages and how much of a wank John Lennon is. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, plus much much more. Enjoy! 

The boys listen to Roberta Flacks powerful debut

In less than five years, Diana Ross went from living in the Frederick Douglass Housing Projects in Detroit to being the jewel in Motown’s crown as the lead singer of the only female band to match the Beatles in terms of international popularity. As well as songs written by her boyfriend (and Motown president) Berry Gordy like the suspiciously scrumptious Buttered Popcorn, this two-and-a-half-hour long mega-hitlist covers the entire golden year period between their first hit and Ross’s split from the band to become a superstar soul diva. It’s also the 452nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes from the bais on everything from sliced bread to “x and the y’s” bands, plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, plus another riveting edition of The Bette Midler Factor. Enjoy!

Trent Reznor’s debut album is a throbbing slab of horny midwestern industrial rock, halfway between the sexual dancefloor electronicism of Depeche Mode and the involuntarily celebate roar that would define American alternative rock in the nineties. Between the pitch perfect sadomasochism of opening track “Head Like A Hole” and the whining balladeering in “Something I Can Never Have”, Pretty Hate Machine predicted the sad, angry and horny decade to come, while setting up a career that would find Reznor covered by Johnny Cash, as well as soundtracking projects as diverse as first-person shooters and Pixar films. It’s also the 453rd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from Soul, Quake II, Doom, Marilyn Manson, having sex with the devil, and whether or not Trent Reznor was a real janitor or not. All that plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, Quiz, the Bette Middler factor, and all that jazz. Enjoy!

British music journalists called the experimental wave of psychedelic rock that came out of West Germany in the late sixties and early seventies “krautrock”. Somewhere between the absurdist dissonant drone collages of Amon Duul and the worldbeating robot-pop of Kraftwerk sits “Ege Bamyasi” by Can - an essential slice of futuristic freak-funk fronted by a nomadic Japanese wanderer and recorded in the derelict cinema that doubled as the band’s living space, that perfectly split the difference between commerce and freethinking utopian idealism.  It’s also the 454th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from motorik, Das Messer, BBC 4, vagabondism, Bauhaus furniture and the Velvet Underground. All that, plus Secret Posho, Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, 

Bo Diddley transmuted the juba hambone beat into rock ‘n’ roll, inspired by blues legends like Howlin Wolf and then ruthlessly plagiarised and whitewashed by everybody from Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones to George Michael, The Smiths and Guns ‘N’ Roses. ‘Bo Diddley’ and ‘Go Bo Diddley’ are his first and second albums, released in the late fifties and containing his biggest charting singles like the self-titled banger ‘Bo Diddley’. They’re also, somehow, the 455th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring good shouts and hot takes on everything from Robbie Williams, The Ed Sullivan Show, ZZ Topp, ‘I Want Candy’ and the big four of eighties funereal doom. All that plus a fruitless edition of Secret Posho and a scintillating incarnation of Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Kicked out of his childhood home by his religious father for the hideous crime of listening to Jackie Wilson, Al Green was hustling in a bordello when he was discovered by the bandleader Willie Mitchell. He went on to be inaccurately described as the Last of The Great Soul Singers, and defined the Memphis soul sound of the early seventies with the ten steamy hot slabs of utilitarian jamming that comprise this Greatest Hits. It’s generally regarded as one of the best ‘best of’ records in the history of recorded music. It’s also the 456th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine’s 2020 list. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featuring cool comments and white-hot takes on everything from the drumming of Al Jackson Jr., the pavlovian response of all Scottish comedians to ‘Reet Petite’ by Jackie Wilson, porridge-based bath attacks, and the non-goodness of religious music, to the accusation that Al Green once shoved his secretary through a glass door. All that plus Quizzz, Secret Posho, and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Her powerful cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a global superstar, but when Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of The Pope during a musical performance on Saturday Night Live as a statement about child abuse within the Catholic Church, she became infamous. Abused by her family and by the nuns at the Magdelene Laundry she was sent to for shoplifting, she channeled the rage wrought by her tragic upbringing into a career of genre-pushing art that seamlessly melds the personal and political to great commercial and critical success. I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, released in 1990, is undoubtedly the epoch and apex of that acclaim. It’s also the 457th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail did a deep dive on it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Irish passports, Joe Pesci, Frank Sinatra, Madonna, In Tua Nua, Ton Ton Macoute, U2, Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert at Madison Square Garden, and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus. All that, plus Secret Posho, as well as the first edition of brand new segment “Tattoo Woohoo or Tattoo Boohoo?” on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Born in a trailer park in rural Alabama, Jason Isbell was taught to play music by his family, then went on to become a guitarist and songwriter for the Southern rock band known as the Drive-By Truckers. However, the demon drink got the best of him and he lost both his band and his wife. After a pair of mediocre solo records, he gave up the booze and found love again before recording the modern classic of country-fried roots music that is 2013’s Southeastern. He dominated the Americana Music Awards that year, winning Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Artist of the Year due to Southeastern’s handcrafted cliche-defying song-writing artistry. Southeastern by Jason Isbell is also the 458th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Liam’s own recovery from alcohol and drug addiction, the British rapper Plan B, pre-Civil War-era murderers, fatigue, the Budget IBIS in Portsmouth, and whether not liking the genre of ‘country music’ makes you a class traitor. All that and more on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor was a teenager when she released “Royals” as a single under the stagename Lorde. But where the Kiwi electro-popstar’s first album had a swaggering half-cut gait, her second record - 2017’s Melodrama - is an MDMA-inspired Greek tragedy of epic proportions: soaring ecstatic bassy highs and cripplingly self-criticising comedowns. It’s also the 460th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: Jack Antonoff of fun., Solar Power’s album cover, the Hunger Games franchise, synesthesia, the fear, Palestine, and the short stories of Ray Bradbury. All that, plus more installments of Secret Posho, Quiz, and the Bop Shop Test, on episode 41 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

After collaborating with Kanye West on his cold electro-pop record 808s & Heartbreak, Kid Cudi followed up his megahit debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi with this conceptual arena-rap sad-stoner magnum opus song-cycle. Beloved by the likes of Pete Davidson and Timothee Chalomet, this Common-narrated record went on to inspire a generation of Cudi devotees including Tyler The Creator, Travis Scott and Kevin Abstract with its frank emotional honesty. It’s also the 459th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: the music video for the Crookers remix of Day ‘N’ Nite, working in a shoe shop, Kids See Ghosts, Achewood, the subject of mental health in hip-hop, and Henry Winkler. All that plus another installment of Secret Posho in the 42nd complete episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

2006 was a bad year for Justin Vernon. His band broke up, his girlfriend left him, and he came down with a serious bout of mononucleosis hepatitis - a severe form of herpes that leaves your lungs inflamed. He spent the winter getting steamboats in his father’s cabin in rural Winsconsin, where he wrote almost all of ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ on a laptop with a 1960s Silvertone guitar. It was a very successful record. Four years later he was an arena-level folk-star, collaborating with Kanye West and Nicki Minaj on the greatest hip-hop album of the 21st century, ‘My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy’. For Emma, Forever Ago is the 461st Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher and Liam listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about it. Featured topics include: liquid acid, powerful loneliness, the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Zane Lowe, the origins of modern hipsterdom and auto-tuned Appalachian folk choirs. All that plus Secret Posho, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail continue their break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer the rest of the listener-submitted questions in the Christmas mailbag. Featuring questions from the likes of Eriq a.k.a. Farump, Rory M. Spence and Alan Hazlie, including: Are there any songs you listen to before you perform to get you in the zone? What’s your favourite album of 2021? And if Christopher could have a Funko-Pop of anyone who has appeared on the list so far, who would it be? Enjoy!

This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail take a break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer a smorgasbord of listener-submitted questions. Featuring questions from the likes of Jay Lafferty, Shaun “Panda” Nicholson and Thomas Craven, including: What’s your go-to happy album when you’re sad? If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life, what would it be? And if there was a ‘The Best of Slimcock Bumblebee Balls” album, what would the tracklisting be? Enjoy!

In 1968, Gram Parsons was the piano-player for The Byrds. In 1973, he overdosed on morphine and alcohol and then his body was stolen by his friends and set on fire. Between those two points he recorded The Gilded Palace of Sin as the lead-singer of the Flying Burrito Brothers. The album barely made a dent commercially, but it’s cosmic gumbo of genres inspired hundreds of bands from the Eagles and Wilco, to Elvis Costello and Dinosaur Jr. It’s also the 462nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, and now they’re going to talk about Nudie suits, mexican food, twelve-string Richenbachers, Lucinda Williams, the citrus industry,  the Bop Shop test, Secret Posho, and much much more on episode 39 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Discovered by David Geffen after a controversial performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a 20-year-old Laura Nyro convinced Clive Davis to sign her to Columbia Records by inviting him to her flat, where she turned all the lights off and performed material from what would become ‘Eli and the Thirteenth Confession’. This darkly theatrical blue-eyed soul music made her and Geffen a millionaire. But by the age of 24, she retired from the public limelight and married a carpenter. Considered a “singer’s singer”, Laura Nyro was covered by the likes of Three Dog Night and Barbara Streisand, and inspired everybody from Elton John to Bette Middler. “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” is also the 462nd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail enjoyed it, then talked about everything from what music they want played at their funeral to what their favourite musical is. All that and more, plus a jazz-trumpeteering edition of Secret Posho, on episode 38 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

The Isley Brothers (pronounced “eyes-ly”) had existed as a vocal doo-wop trio since the late 50’s, playing live with the pre-fame likes of Jimi Hendrix and Elton John. But in 1973 they collaborated with their two much younger brothers (and a controversial cousin) to update their sound from classic R&B to ultra-crisp funky soul. Their kid brother Ernie Isley joins the dots between Maggot Brain and Purple Rain with a laser-phaser guitar sound that rejuvenated old Isley standards and added an edge to cover versions of then-recent ‘plastic soul’ hits.  It’s also the 463rd Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it, then talked about everything from the identity of the lady in “That Lady” to the inappropriate narration of the So So Madam Show, as well as the Doobie Brothers, rolling r’s, Radiohead, car accidents, Wikipedia, and maths. All that and more, plus an underwhelming edition of Secret Posho, on episode 37 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

When Bob Marley died in 1981, Island Records wanted to repeat the success they found with the reggae star by marketing King Sunny Ade as ‘The African Bob Marley’. It didn’t really work, but the attempt brought Nigeria’s unique style of afrobeat - “juju music” - to the international spotlight. Compiled in 2003 by Shanachie Records, ‘The Best Of The Classic Years’ documents the pre-Island period of Ade’s career (1969-1974) before the watered down attempts at crossover success - lyrics entirely in Yoruba, seventeen-minute long jams, and rawer production. It’s also the 464th Greatest Album of All Time, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher and Liam use the record as a springboard to discuss everything from the Yoruban talking drum, William Onyeabor, Ebo Taylor, Ghanian highlife, the difference between a nightclub and a hotel in Nigeria, doing the washing-up, the musical tastes of the British royal family, and the filmography of Richard Gere. All that and more, plus an even-handed installment of Secret Posho, on episode 36 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

In 1964, Brian Wilson married a sixteen-year-old and smoked exactly one (1) marijuana cigarette before having a mental breakdown and deciding that the life of a rock star on-tour wasn’t for him - he holed up in L.A. to write and record music, while the rest of the band would travel around the world playing concerts. The next year, they released “The Beach Boys Today!” - a reimagining of the Beach Boys style with no surfer songs, as well as production and harmonies that triggered a creative rivalry with Wilson’s heroes The Beatles and famous murderer Phil Spector. It is also #465 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it on everything from paddleboarding, true surf culture, the cy clops, honking on bobo, Mike Love’s evil heart, and Del Shannon’s cover of “Do You Wanna Dance?” All that and more, plus a potentially surprising installment of Secret Posho, on episode 35 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Maxwell disappeared from the public eye in late 2001, seemingly disillusioned with the world after both the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the resignation of William Hague, the then-leader of the United Kingdom’s Conservative party. But from 9/11 until just after Obama’s inauguration, the neo-soul chart-topper in exile toiled on 2009’s “BLACK summers night”, the first in a planned trilogy of nocturnal sex-gospel jams. “BLACK summers night” was Maxwell’s fourth consecutive multi-platinum album, and made it to #467 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. Christopher and Liam get into it and over it on everything under the moon, including shamed socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, D’Angelo, Sade, arancini balls, Derek Hodge, having sex, the Urban Hang Suite, John Mayer and main character syndrome. All that and more, plus yet another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on episode 34 of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy

In 1977 Keith Richards was getting busted in Toronto for heroin possession while Mick Jagger was spending his nights in New York partying in Studio 54 with the rich and the famous. Meanwhile, music moved on without them as new rock bands emerged, as well as the divergent births of disco and punk. The Rolling Stones absconded to Paris over new year, where they fused their classic transatlantic white-boy blues rock with the hot new trends. In doing so, they revitalised their career with one of the most iconic comeback albums of all time. “Some Girls” is also the 468th Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine. Christopher and Liam listened to it this week, and got into the nitty-gritty on Bette Middler, the late Charlie Watts, the controversial title track, the controversial album cover, Jagger’s status as a true blue Tory, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and probably a little bit of John Mulaney.  All that and more, on the 33rd episode in a row of Enjoy An Album. 

After spending ten years as the frontman of bands like the patchenka world fusion outfit Mano Negra and the Parisian pub-rock group Hot Pants, Manu Chao lost both his band and his long-term girlfriend. He then spent three years in suicidal exile trekking across South America and West Africa, before returning to music with “Clandestino” - his debut solo album recorded on a laptop with international guests from the collective known as Radio Bemba. It went on to spearhead the world music trend at the turn of the millennium, and sell five million copies. Not only that, but it’s #469 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail listened to it this week, and got into it on everything from Francisco Franco and Robbie Williams to Subcomandante Marcos and the University of Southern California. All that and more, plus an unfathomably spicy chapter of Secret Posho, on the thirty-second episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Cash Money Records may have released albums by Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne, but this searing quadruple-platinum slice of New Orleans bounce-inflected trap-predicting hip-hop outsold all of them. Largely produced by southern rap legend Mannie Fresh, Juvenile’s third album broke into the mainstream with mega-hits like “Ha” and “Back That Azz Up”. Not only that, but it’s #470 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail get into it/over it on subjects such as “Shake Ya Ass” by Mystikal, “Shake That” by Eminem, Juvie’s juvenilia squad The Hot Boys, reupholstery, Scottish Seinfeld, and the Saint-Denis area of the Playstation 4 game Red Dead Redemption 2. All that and more, plus an underwhelming edition of Secret Posho, on the thirty-first episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

Jefferson Airplane were iconic to dirty hippies across the world in the sixties, as the only band to headline Woodstock, Altamont and the Monterey Pop festivals. “Surrealistic Pillow” was saved from record company meddling by the spiritual advisory of Grateful Dead honcho Jerry Garcia, and went on to become the defining soundtrack to the Summer Of Love. Not only that, but it’s #471 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all Time. Christopher and Liam get into it/over it on topics such as Grace Slick’s incredible vocals, the 1998 science fiction film The Matrix, the poor bodyguarding skills of the Hells Angels, Richard Nixon, and “We Built This City” by Jefferson Starship. All that and more, plus a scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on the thirtieth episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

#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 more, plus Secret Posho, on this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album. Enjoy!

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 Christopher gets to show off his rich knowledge of Puerto Rican wrestling history. A fruitless Secret Posho, a clash of opinions, and much more as Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail do a deep dive on #473 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Enjoy!

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 Posho, plus a banger of a quiz that leaves Liam utterly flummoxed. It might not really have been a #1 record, but it’s #474 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Enjoy!

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 Clapton? And is Sheryl Cole personally responsible for the suicide of a short story writer? All that and more, plus another scintillating edition of Secret Posho, on episode 26 of Enjoy An Album.

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 as the hinterlands, Buckethead, the brothers’ long career, and whether or not this is the single best album we’ve listened to in the list so far in episode 25 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

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 Dixon and Slimcock Bumblebee Balls.  Order up a big plate of B.B. king-sized nachos and listen to episode 24 of Enjoy An Album! Enjoy.

“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, Hey Jude, Wes Anderson, RHCP and counterfeit Barcelona football kits. All that as well as Secret Posho and Quiz. Enjoy!

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 released. Posthumously, she became a Texas legend that inspired Beyonce, Shakira, Lady Gaga and many other megastars. But is actually enjoying the dated production of Amor Prohibido the true forbidden love? Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail get into it about Ten Minute Murders, Randy Beamer, the Netflix series based on her life and death, as well as Ozzy Osbourne, Yolanda Saldivar and David Byrne. All this and more, on episode 22 of Enjoy An Album.

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 Radiohead, the best double albums of all time, and The Marfa Tapes. Plus, Christopher challenges Liam to his latest quiz: “Who Said This Quote, Miranda Lambert or Ayn Rand?” All this and more, including another scintillating installment of Secret Posho, on episode 21 of Enjoy An Album.

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 Solonz. All this and more in this week’s episode of Enjoy An Album!

“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 the tutelage of Reggie Andrews to release this 1992 L.A. alt-rap classic, featuring incredible jazzy production by J-Swift. But does the juvenile humour of thirty years ago hold up in 2021? Join CMB and Liam as they take a bizarre ride to the Enjoy An Album side and talk Rodney King, the Inbetweeners, the Wascals, crack addiction, tripping on acid and Jackass. All this and more on episode 19 of Enjoy An Album. 

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 the 483rd Greatest Album of All Time. Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent an entire week immersing themselves in the Mud’s career, and the hot-takes are as spicy as ever. Christopher quizzes Liam on his knowledge of pre-war blues, and the pair get into it about the Rolling Stones, Alan Lomax, Leonard Chess and the documentary-making acumen of East Aurora High School. All this and more on Episode 18 of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album Playlist! tinyurl.com/enjoyaplaylist

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. This week, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail spent a solid week jamming out to what Rolling Stone magazine named the 484th Greatest Album of All Time, and the hot takes are flying off the mouth-shelves like hotcakes. As well as a particularly scintillating edition of Secret Posho, they get into about Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, the amazing/terrible album cover and United States President Joe Biden. All this and more on episode 17 of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album Playlist! tinyurl.com/enjoyaplaylist

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 1974, they wrote, recorded and released what Rolling Stone magazine calls the 485th Greatest Album of All Time: “I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight” Liam and CMB listen to it and then dish out hot takes about traditional British folk music, Old Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, metaphorical tightrope-walking, literal tightrope-walking, middle class anti-capitalism and Brian Emo. All this and more on episode 16 of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album Playlist! tinyurl.com/enjoyaplaylist

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 Jimi Hendrix, Drake’s birthday party, racist penises. Plus, they do a joke-by-joke breakdown of Mayer’s recorded attempt at stand-up comedy. All this and more on the fifteenth episode of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album Playlist! https://tinyurl.com/enjoyaplaylist

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 slam and jam about violence at concerts, straight edge, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, as well as the seminal document of underground indie rock: “This Band Could Be Your Life” by Michael Azzerad. All this and more on the fourteenth episode of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album Playlist! https://tinyurl.com/enjoyaplaylist

“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 of Secret Posho, and talk Detroit, The Doors, the outdoor Glaswegian heavy rock festival Gig On The Green, as well as John Cale of The Velvet Underground. All this and more in the (unlucky!) thirteenth episode of Enjoy An Album! Check out the Enjoy An Album playlist! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7shi4G560wBcVlG5JDNPEb?si=178f2e401e4

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 actress Lana Clarkson by Spector in his mansion. All this and more on the twelfth episode of Enjoy An Album! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7shi4G560wBcVlG5JDNPEb?si=178f2e401e4

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 country rock, Emmylou Harris, midwestern emo band Short Fictions, the invention of the toaster, and The Pirates of Penzance. All this and more on the eleventh episode of Enjoy An Album!

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 Enjoy An Album! Check out the Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7shi4G560wBcVlG5JDNPEb?si=6044757cfbca49f7

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 sobriety, middle age, sitcoms, VH1 and the artist formerly known as Prince. All that and more on episode nine of Enjoy An Album with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail! Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7shi4G560wBcVlG5JDNPEb?si=178f2e401e474723

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, attorney fees, pregnant teens, adultery, tragic deaths, Oedipal complexes, paternal spats, and Jamiroquai. All that and more on episode eight of Enjoy An Album with Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail!

“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 produced it,

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 is going on in the video for ‘I’ll Make Love To You’? All this and more on episode six of Enjoy An Album.

‘Hips Don’t Lie’... and neither do we when we say this is a good podcast! Shakira’s 1998 smash hit ‘¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?’, which (according to Rolling Stone magazine) is the 496th Greatest Album Of All Time, gets the EAA treatment. Christopher talks about being uncomfortable during belly dances as a young boy, and Liam gets quizzed on his knowledge of lucha libre. Plus, Metallica gets brought up apropos of nothing on several occasions. All this and more on the fifth episode of Enjoy An Album!

Don’t be a Ladysmith Black Mom-bozo! Listen to episode four of Enjoy An Album, all about the 1985 afropop compilation The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, which (according to Rolling Stone magazine) is the 497th Greatest Album of All Time. Liam harkens back to a teenage trip to Milawi, while Christopher unveils his embarrassing pronunciation of the word ‘apartheid.’ Plus, Liam insists that Christopher has listened to Paul Simon’s Graceland when he definitely hasn’t. All this and more on the fourth episode of Enjoy An Album.

‘Wake Up’ and smell the coffee! The first ever episode of Enjoy An Album covers ‘Funeral’ by Arcade Fire, which (according to Rolling Stone) is the 500th Greatest Album Of All Time. Liam recalls seeing the band live at Alexandra Palace in 2007 where he made a lifelong nemesis, whereas Christopher has some hot takes about the true meaning of the record’s lyrics. Plus, is Win Butler a secret posho? All this and more on the world premiere of Enjoy An Album.

Do you have an ‘Everlasting Love’ for seminal funk classics? Episode two of Enjoy An Album covers “Ask Rufus” by Rufus feat. Chaka Khan, which (according to Rolling Stone magazine) is the 499th Greatest Album Of All Time. Liam and Christopher delve into the band’s oblique album title conventions, as well as dish sheer goss about steamy soundtracks and pronunciation problems. Plus, was Chaka Khan a member of the Black Panthers? All this and more on the second episode of Enjoy An Album.

‘Frankie Teardrop’ what you’re doing, and listen to this! Episode three of Enjoy An Album covers “Suicide” by Suicide, which (according to Rolling Stone magazine) is the 498th Greatest Album Of All Time. Liam reminisces about his first experience of transgressive modern art in the Tate Modern, while Christopher quizzes him on his knowledge about Ghost Rider. Plus, did Bruce Springsteen steal his whole vibe from this album? All this and more on the third episode of Enjoy An Album.