Podcast Episode 20 – Album Club – Modern Classics

EP.70 | Olivia Rogrigo | You seem pretty sad … – This Is Not Happening – An Album Of The Month Podcast

Welcome to Episode 70 of This Is Not Happening, an Album of the Month podcast. In Part 1, we do a deep drive review of our Album of the Month. This month Joey is VERY happy to bring 'You seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' the 3rd album by Olivia Rodrigo.In Part 2, we play Spin It or Bin It, we pick a theme and all pick songs that represent that theme. This month, taking inspiration from Olivia's love of and references to the Cure, the theme is 'Songs that reference other artists'.    — Part 1 | Album of the Month | Olivia Rodrigo |  You seem pretty sad … —Olivia is a force of nature. She is a song writing savant. She has a new album out, in case you didn't notice, this means we've got to talk about it. And there is a lot to talk about.Have a listen, tell us what you think.Listen to the original album here.Watch some of her videos here , particularly the singles from this album.Buy this album or some merch here.  Listen to the ridiculously brilliant Switched on Pop Podcast Episode.               — Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | Songs that reference other artists — Olivia references the Cure a number of times on this album. We've taken inspiration and chosen 'Songs that reference other artists' as our Spin It theme.The task is pick a track that fits the theme, the objective, get more 'spins' than your friends. We each pick four tracks for a 16 track play list . We then each pick select 1 track and ask the simple question 'Spin It Or Bin It'?Joey chose Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus.David chose Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder.Guy chose Destroy Rock & Roll by Mylo.Nolan chose Secret Wars I by The Last Emporer.What would you have chosen? What's missing from our playlist?We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look – https://thisisnothappening.net/

1. EP.70 | Olivia Rogrigo | You seem pretty sad … 01:12:03
2. EP. 69 | Lykke Li | The Afterparty 57:33
3. EP.68 | Robyn | Sexistential 01:24:03
4. EP.67 | Eliza | The Darkening Green 01:12:16
5. EP.66 | Jill Scott | To Whom This May Concern 01:06:54

We usually pick a (relatively) new album release to focus on but this month we changed things up. The start of the year is a funny time for album releases and 2022 was no different. We decided that rather than spend a month and a podcast talking about something that we weren’t too passionate about, we’d take a different path.  This month is the first TINH ‘Album Club’.

The format for this podcast is simple. The four of us all (randomly) chose  someone from the Team-TINH to pick an album for. The album should be from the past 10 (ish) years and should represent something special that the recipient might have missed. A modern classic perhaps.

This episode was loads of fun to make. There’s loads of agreement, a little bit of niggle, a fair chunk of nerdery … something for everyone. The following are the albums that we discussed, who chose them, who they were chosen for and some links that take you to some of the things that popped up in the discussion.

First-up – Joey chose Deerhunter’s 2010 ‘Halcyon Digest’ for Guy;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
The ethereal video for Helicopter can be watched here
… or watch them perform the poptastic ‘Memory Boy’ here

Next-up – Nolan chose Kanye West’s 2016 ‘Life of Pablo’ for David (what could go wrong?);

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Nolan highly recommends NORE’s podcast interview with Kanye here…
… and if 2.5hrs of Kanye wasn’t enough here’s part 2

Next-up – David chose Wye Oak’s 2011 ‘Civilian’ for Joey;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Watch a live NPR Tiny Desk performance of ‘Civilian’ here

Finally – Guy chose Enny’s 2021’s ‘Under 25’ for Nolan;

You can listen to the album here on Spotify
… or catch it on YouTube here
Watch the video to ‘I want’here
… and the video for ‘Peng Black Girls’ here

We hope you enjoy this episode. Let us know if you know these albums. Do you love them? What are your thoughts?

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Produced and Edited by Guy and Nolan.
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