Certain Songs

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Welcome to Certain Songs, a weekly music podcast presented by Sam Unsted and John Doree.

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Episodes

Certain Songs #10 – Mercury Music Prize

Certain Songs #10 Right Cliiiiick. Saaaaave Assss. Listen Up. Bravely, possibly foolishly, John and Sam leap into the world of the Mercury Music Prize, listening to everything offered by the nominees for the prize and ruthlessly assessing the quality of the field. In this mammoth edition of the show, the boys take in the delights of Biffy Clyro and Laura Marling, with stops on the way to meet with Paul Weller, Mumford & Sons and more. Don’t do it all in one sitting, but enjoy this extravagan...

Sep 06, 2010

Certain Songs #09 – Best of 2010 Part 2

Certain Songs #09 (right click, save as, peaches for free) Yet more Best of 2010 so far this week, with Sam highlighting a bevy of new songs and John deciding to assess the quality of AOL’s top ten songs of the year. The gents also find time to chat about Philip Selway and allow John space to induct some elegiac instrumentalism into the hall of fame.

Jul 19, 2010

Certain Songs #08 – Best of 2010 Part 1

Certain Songs #08 (right click, save as, turtle power) It’s a beast! Turns out that despite our relative upstart status, we have a lot of things to say on what’s happened so far in 2010. Join the gang, or duo is probably more accurate, for a little discussion on the highlights (and lowlights) of this year. As part of our regular features Sam has been continuing his foray into the shoegaze/noise pop revival with Besnard Lakes and Liars while John has strived for the ultimate clash by listening to...

Jul 14, 2010

Certain Songs #07 – Venetian Snares

Certain Songs #07 (right click, save as, Aphex acid) Put your skronky breakcore hats on, folks, because it’s time for Sam to dive into the world of Venetian Snares. Sam and John will have a long chat about this cheeky chappy, along with some indulgence in Sam’s summer hip-hop obsessions and John counters this will the twin pleasures of Shostakovich and Isis.

Jul 05, 2010

Certain Songs #06 – Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers

Download Certain Songs Episode 06 (Right click, save as, white wedding) Sam gets round to seeing what the fuss is all about regarding The xx and Fuck Buttons while John has a near-fit talking about Robyn and Autechre. Today’s main feature is a look at Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers as part of our series on discovering acclaimed albums that otherwise passed us by. Plus there’s the usual song inductions into our Hall of Fame and John serves up a particularly mental but otherwise blissful o...

Jun 29, 2010

Certain Songs Episode #5 – Summer Songs

Certain Songs Episode 05 (Right click, save as, funky good times) Summer is here, so the Sam-John axis hath decided to embrace the season and regale all with summer playlists to enjoy. They also find time in this busy summer schedule to chat about Beach Fossils, Roky Erickson and their inductees into the Hall of Fame.

Jun 21, 2010

Certain Songs #4 – Show Notes

The Spotify Playlist for this week’s show is here. There are a couple of extra tracks on there just to keep it up to length, including a bevy of Metallica covers. The Show Notes do not include anything for the three albums as, come on, no more information is needed. – Big Boi’s video for ‘Shutterbug’ is here . If you’ve never done so, please make sure to go back and check out the earlier Outkast records. I’ve thrown them all into a Spotify playlist for this exact purpose. ( MySpace – Official Si...

Jun 20, 2010

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