We're back on brand, back in Springsteen Country, and with very special guest Neil McRobert (author, journalist, reviewer, and host of the mighty Talking Scared podcast ) in tow, it's finally time to dive into The River. Breaking this behemoth album into two shows, tonight we talk Disk One, as well as our histories with the record, general remarks about the album as a whole, and Neil's Grand Unifying Spreinsteen Theory. Expect discussions of parental loss and elemental relationship fears alongsi...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 57 min
James and Kit continue their journey through rock 'n' roll discographies with a journey to Meatloaf and Jim Steinman's epic slice of guitar driven urban myth, Bat Out Of Hell. Next time, we take a dip in the River.
Jan 03, 2025•2 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Kit Power and James take a break from Bruce Springsteen to grapple with the entire Sex Pistols album discography. This is a great one, friends.
Oct 22, 2024•2 hr 33 min
Kevin and James hit the classic William Hartnell serial from 1966 and the equally classic Zapata Western: Bullet for the General.
Aug 05, 2024•52 min
Kevin and James are back and they recorded this at the beginning of the recent series, closing this journey off through the Clash's classic discography (is Combat Rock an imperative or a descriptor?) as well as the racist serial Time Flight - which James utterly failed to pick up on like the sweet summer child that he is.
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 39 min
In which James and Kit are joined by drummer (in Kit's new band, no less) friend of the show and lifelong Bruce fan John Busvine, to discuss The Boss's seminal 1978 studio album Darkness On The Edge Of Town. For John, it's a conversation over 30 years in the making, and it's a privilege to get his perspective on an album that's formed part of the soundtrack of his life. Enjoy :)
Jul 11, 2024•2 hr 37 min
Hey, demons, it's your boys and we're back in town to make some noise. We're here to play about Dr Who's State of Decay and the Clash's record from back in the day (Sandinista! (1980))
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Mar 05, 2024•2 hr 24 min
Kit and James are back! And they brought someone - the brilliant Andrew Matey - who knows what they're talking about for this, the second real episode of We Learned More From A Three Minute Record. This one goes in deep on Bruce Springsteen's sophomore album, the Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle. The songs? Dissected. The good? Passionately loved. The sacred cows? Delicious burger meat.
Dec 19, 2023•2 hr 21 min
Your long international nightmare is over. Here it is, the podcast episode so anticipated, so filled with good magick that it did the unthinkable and killed Henry Kissenger. You're welcome. You're also now able to sate your previously unquenchable hunger to learn what your old buddies Kevin 'n' James thought about the newest Doctor Who. Listen now. We're back.
Nov 30, 2023•54 min
In which James Slater-Murphy and Kit Power begin their deep dive into the studio albums of Columbia recording artist Bruce Springsteen. With a startling lack of originality, we start at the beginning, taking in 1973s Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. There's a bit of initial amused bafflement that this is the origin story for one of popular music's biggest and most reliable stadium fillers, but we also discover a lot to enjoy and ponder, especially on side 2, as well as some signposts towards futu...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 43 min
Kevin and James spend an extremely small amount of time on the 1979 Dr. Who serial before getting concisely into the Clash's third record.
Oct 03, 2023•52 min
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 41 min
Kevin and James talk about an all-timer of a record.
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Come and hang out with Kevin and James as they find small shoots of optimism in current events, navigate two very different times of day, and talk some classic Sylv!
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Kevin and James talk a Tom Baker serial & Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks!
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 23 min
The Bondage crew is joined by Jack Graham to discuss Moonraker. Hijinks and technical difficulties ensue.
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Kevin & James talk about a couple of good Bob Dylan records (well a couple of records, anyway) before falling into the gush-fest of Tom Baker's first story.
May 28, 2022•1 hr 55 min
Kevin and James chat about current events & the Daemons. A great chat, come spend some time hanging out.
Apr 09, 2022•59 min
We're here already, pod people! Jack, George, and Elliot reform to talk about one of the greatest of all remakes, one of the greatest of all sci-fi movies, one of the quintessential films of the 70s, the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers , starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy. Once again, my patrons got advance access. @_Jack_Graham_ @E11iotChapman @EnigmaticElegy / http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ / https://www.youtube.com/user...
Apr 03, 2022•2 hr 34 min
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Kevin and James heroically reject that Spotify money then chat the last part of Patrick Troughton's swansong as well as Nashville Skyline & Self Portrait by Bob Dylan.
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 49 min
Elliot, George, and I are back to talk about Nic Roeg's mysterious and mesmerising Don't Look Now (1972), a tale of haunting grief and uncanny precognition in a decaying and dirty Venice, based on the Daphne Du Maurier story, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. With digressions into Hitchcock, Hannibal, and heverything helse. Once again, my patrons got advance access. @_Jack_Graham_ @E11iotChapman @EnigmaticElegy / http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ / https://www.youtube.com/user/Exag...
Feb 10, 2022•2 hr 8 min
Kevin & James battle on through the long Troughton serial and then continue to wander through the Bob Dylan discography with Blonde on Blonde & John Wesley Harding.
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Our saviour is born!* *of a jackal
Dec 25, 2021•2 hr 10 min
Kevin and James have a chat, then sink their teeth into the first three episodes of the '69 Troughton serial The War Games. Note: this was recorded just prior to the Omicron variant catching people's notice, immediately making it helplessly dated. Good talk!
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Elliot, George, and I are back to talk about William Peter Blatty's fascinating, flawed, ambitious, sometimes brilliant 1990 oddity, Exorcist III (AKA Legion )... with digressions into the other Exorcist movies and books, plus Christopher Lee, Hannibal , Theodicy, mythology, etc etc etc. Once again, my patrons got advance access. The plan is for us to do The Omen next and release it on Christmas Day. @_Jack_Graham_ @E11iotChapman @EnigmaticElegy / http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ / https://www...
Dec 09, 2021•2 hr 21 min
Elliot rejoins and the original IITSL gang assays Peter Strickland's 2012 triumph Berberian Sound Studio , a masterclass of aesthetics and irresolvably ambiguous, mysterious, gripping hauntological cinema. Berberian Sound Studio - Wikipedia My own piece from a few years ago, written immediately after my first viewing of this film: Carry On Screaming – Eruditorum Press Movie Soundtrack @_Jack_Graham_ @E11iotChapman @EnigmaticElegy / http://www.strangeplaygrounds.com/ / https://www.youtube.com/use...
Dec 03, 2021•2 hr 23 min
Another podcast excursion into the Media Hauntological, this time focusing on The Shining , the 1980 masterpiece by... well, by several people, including but not limited to Stanley Kubrick. (See also a triumvirate of brilliant women: Diane Johnson, Wendy Carlos, and Shelley Duvall.) This time George and I are joined by Kit Power. Because we've decided we hate Elliot. No, no, no. I kid. If the Joker ever tries to corrupt one of us, it'll be Elliot, because he's the best of us. Truth is, George an...
Nov 27, 2021•3 hr 30 min
