In which our hero talks nonsense about Terrorvision's sophomore album, How to Make Friends and Influence People.

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Today we're looking at an album, and a band that are quite difficult to stick in a box...they're a very British band but definitely not Britpop, their records came out at the same time as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and all those Seattle bands but they're certainly not grunge... they've toured with Def Leppard, played Festivals alongside Metallica and Marilyn Manson and headlined some of the country's finest venues over the last 30 odd years proving that sometimes, all you need... is some massive riffs, some big hooky choruses and a bunch of lads from Bradford bouncing around like Zebedee.

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In which our hero talks nonsense about Guns 'n' Roses

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In today's show I compile my Top 5 songs by one of my favourite bands, Guns 'n' Roses, have a look at some opinions of others who actually get paid for their opinions and hear the thoughts of you, the dear listener.

Whether you're a fan of the sweaty, sleazy Appetite era, love the pomposity and grandeur of the Use Your Illusion albums and subsequent mega tours or, and I'm sure this is a minority, you love The Chinese Democracy, there's something here for you.

As mentioned in the show...

That FKing Guy

Pat Veil - Check out his Music please

Dino Corvino

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In which our hero talks nonsense about his Top 5 favourite albums*

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After running through a long list of great albums in the previous show, I play some of my favourite tracks from my favourite records.

This ranking probably changes everyday but is a good snapshot of what gets me going at the moment.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

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Oh... here's me and Planty chatting Ben Folds "On Being Frank"

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In which our hero talks nonsense about his favourite albums of all time and plays some tracks from a few of them

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Best of lists. Top 100s. Top 5 guitarists you never heard of, Greatest bands in the history of the universe and time and space and whatever....the internet is full of lists and a lot of the time it's always the same records, by the same bands and artists and I rarely listen to any of them

So I sat down to make my own list of 25 which quickly became 50, then 60 and finally after about 15 minutes I stopped on 108. You won't find many of them in the Rolling Stone Top 500 or a Kerrang Top 50 but they're a good representation of the music that gets me going.

See the full list on the Records & Band blog at Substack

And see what I'm showing off from my record collection on Instagram

Please consider listening on Mixcloud for the full show AND all the bonus playlists and mixtapes I can share on that platform...loads going on over there.

Cheers

Rob