SLIGHTLY EARLY ACCESS: BYAMPOD Ep 99 - The Road to Happiness
Added 2022-10-10 12:50:55 +0000 UTCWe tried something a bit different this week; a rare, Marillion-lite, in which we look the key events and music releases of 2008, in a bid to put the release of Happiness Is The Road into some sort of context.
We're not totally sure it works as a format, but as a wander down memory lane it does it job. Also, we tease our big 100th episode, and discuss the messed-up way British people make fun of the things they love... including their favourite band...
Sorry this is late. But we've got a bonus ep on the way to make up for it.
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I'm late to the pods and vids these days - only catching up to this now so I'm getting in on the 2008 action: Movies: Son Of Rambow, Wall-E, Ponyo, The Informers, Johnny Mad Dog, Pontypool, Cloverfield, Rambo, Ip Man, Let The Right One In, Departures, Martyrs, The Dark Knight, Love Exposure. Looking back at my music purchases... Sia - Some People Have Real Problems Gemma Hayes - The Hollow Of Morning Opeth - Watershed Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider Metallica - Death Magnetic G'n'R - Chinese Democracy Ummm, good episode too!
Carlos Nightman
2022-10-12 10:24:59 +0000 UTCTotally agree about Russell Brand. Can't stand the guy. He's a preening, self-absorbed leech. Just because he litters his sentences with a few large words and delivers them in a cod Kenneth Williams style, some think he's a genius and hang on his every word. He tries on different hats for maximum exposure, latching on to whatever is popular at any given time. Last I saw of him, he was trying to court the Joe Rogan/Jordan Petersen crowd, spouting pseudo-spiritual nonsense, cultural/social commentary and conspiracy theory. You may've picked up that I'm not a fan. 😄 2008 was a pretty decent year for music. My favourite releases were: Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Beck - Modern Guilt Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Portishead - Third Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke The Black Crowes - Warpaint Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha She & Him - Volume One dEUS - Vantage Point Stereolab - Chemical Chords Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords Bellowhead - Matachin I haven't listened to Happiness is the Road yet. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard a single track from it before, so I'll be going into this one cold. Interesting to hear they tried the free/pay what you like digital release idea. Inspired by Radiohead's In Rainbows release the year before, pehaps?
Simon Lee Tranter
2022-10-11 18:31:46 +0000 UTCI have a soft spot for Kaiser Chiefs.
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2022-10-11 13:43:43 +0000 UTCNick away!
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2022-10-11 13:43:27 +0000 UTC2008. I remember obama being voted in....mainly coz of a half page ad in one of the uk newspapers that was just a huge slogan saying "bush gone"....it was actually an ad for veet hair removal cream. Advertising genius. Other than HITR, musically 2008 was all about Nine Inch Nails for me. They released Ghosts (I - IV) - that was a lot of instrumental noodling (and probably a forerunner to all their film soundtrack work) but interestingly, ghosts I was released as a freebie,- parts II-IV you had to pay to get hold of. Wonder if that would've been a better approach for HITR? Honestly, those records were a bit of a disappointment for me, but later in the year with no warning, The Slip was released, and that was a proper return to form - and a free giveaway too. I thought it kinda interesting that my 2 fave bands were experimenting with this kind of marketing, abeit with varying degrees of success (they'd both done similar ideas a couple of years earlier too - with the remix thing on acid planet). I think NIN worked it more from the angle of selling a bunch of other stuff that wasnt shareable - stuff like limited edition prints unique to each gig (if you think keeping Marillion tour programs intact is a problem, try keeping pricey limited edition prints uncreased during a NIN gig!) IIRC, for the freebie download thing, Marillion used a service called "Music Glue" that somehow tracked and automatically redirected people to marillion.com when they listened to the downloaded tracks. It would probably be considered a dodgy/illegal way to do things these days, but never mind eh?! I guess music glue evolved their business model into something else too, as i noticed their logo at the bottom of some bands webpage only a week or 2 ago. Oh, and honourable mention to Kaiser Chiefs, who despite not being anywhere close to being a favourite band, i went to one of their gigs, and was honestly one of the most enjoyable ive ever been to.
Pete Pyjamas
2022-10-10 21:31:26 +0000 UTCGreat episode. PZ bingo may just be an idea I nick for Mockillion (if you don't do it first).
Stephen Wicks
2022-10-10 19:44:55 +0000 UTC
