Todd Rundgren’s outbursts, ‘too old to mosh’ & the happiest and saddest songwriters

Word In Your Ear

Word In Your Ear

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Stackwaddy Quiz: Unexpected Co-Billing
03:35 - Todd Rundgren
11:09 - Major & Minor Chords
24:30 - Louis Armstrong
30:09 - Knebworth
40:01 - Any Other Business
43:27 - Birthday Guest Phil Turner

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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.