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A long-running conversation that shifts from major to minor, back to major and all notes inbetween, this week’s lyrics including …


… can people who write ‘happy’ ever be cool?


… the best drummer who isn’t a drummer?


… when will Oasis buy Man City?


… why is Taylor Swift unmemorable?


… when’s “too old to mosh”?


… weird double-bills: Jimi Hendrix and the Monkees. Cat Stevens and Engelbert. Black Sabbath and … Neil Diamond?


… huge stars who barely had any hits


… what Todd Rundgren said about the New York Dolls, XTC and Bat Out Of Hell (“a parody of Springsteen”


… why black musicians had white gangster managers


… Mark paid £2.75 for six bands at Knebworth in 1974. What’s Alex getting for £500 in 2027?


… and “songs about Los Angeles are always about failure”


Plus Radiohead, Laughing Len, Kylie and birthday guest Phil Turner.

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