Returning to the podcast, She Will Rock You co-host Leah chooses an album that has one of the biggest comeback songs in recent pop history in Taylor Swift's "reputation". There's a lot of talk of Taylor, the history surrounding the lead-up to the album and how Taylor has explored a variety of genres. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Leah Visit and listen to She Will Rock You! https://shewillrockyou.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick ...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 82
Returning to the podcast with the group he was destined to talk about, James Addis talks about the British pop group's third album "Buzz". Along the way they talk about the individual members' roles in the group, the state of pop music and both his and Matt's live experiences with Steps... Host: Matt Latham Guest: James Addis Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wemadet...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 81
From the late 90s/early 00s - Sup Doc's George Chen brings forth Hawkeye and Firebird, an 8-track album of twenty minutes chronicling a bizarre relationship between human and machine. All set to C64 samples and sung in a childlike voice. Whilst dressed as a Samarai. It has to be listened to to be believed. George and Matt talk about the Chicago music scene as well as the technical capabilities of 8-bit MIDI in this episode of the podcast! Host: Matt Latham Guest: George Chen Visit Zum Audio here...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 80
Bringing forth Manchester's The 1975, Rylan from the Punch Drunk Vinyl Podcast finally gets Matt to listen to them. Along the way they talk a *lot* about Matty Healy, Pale Waves and the importance of the frontman in a band. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Rylan Listen to Punch Drunk Vinyl! https://www.punchdrunkvinyl.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wemadethispod http...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 79
What's this? It's extra bonus stuff cut out of the episode 70 recording that I thought would be good fun, including a bunch of stuff about remixes, festival line-ups, club music and all sorts! Host: Matt Latham Guest: Babs Visit and listen to Over/Underrated! https://anchor.fm/overunderratedmusicpod Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wemadethispod https://wemadethispo...
Sep 20, 2021•27 min•Ep. 78
Episode 70! As always on the multiple of ten episodes, Matt picks the album! Guest hosting is Babs from Over/Underrated to talk about Robots In Disguise's second album "Get RiD". Alongside the album, there's talk on MySpace, music videos and much more! #music #podcast #podcasts #musicpodcasts #musicpodcast #musiccommentary #podcastersofinstagram #britpodscene #robotsindisguise #suedenim #deeplume #electroclash #riotgrrl #getrid Host: Matt Latham Guest: Babs Visit and listen to Over/Underrated! h...
Sep 13, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 77
Brian from the Playlist Wars podcast introduces Matt to his favourite album of all time, the 1978 self-titled debut from The Cars. They talk a little about the band, how they probably influenced the genre of New Wave and how they're all staples of US rock radio to this day! This was a great one to record.... Host: Matt Latham Guest: Brian Colburn Listen to Playlist Wars https://playlistwars.wordpress.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 76
From the obscure beginnings of Philly, The Teeth were pipped for great things but just ended. Podcaster/musician/director Aviv Rubinstein talks about how much he loves their album "You're My Lover Now". Host: Matt Latham Guest: Aviv Rubinstein Listen to Lyrics for Lunch! https://lyricsforlunch628423244.wordpress.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wemadethispod ht...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 75
Venturing back to New Jersey, Matt is joined by Mike Slamer to talk about The Gaslight Anthem's "Handwritten". Expect talk of places having a "sound", associating car journeys with albums and Russian dogs. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Mike Slamer https://www.spreaker.com/show/gotham-u-a-batman-podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/we-are-starfleet-a-star-trek-podcast Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/in...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 74
Living in the shadow of the "Big Four" britpop bands, Hannah from Society Owes Me A Gen X Podcast picks The Bluetones' debut album "Expecting to Fly" and how much she loves the song-writing of Mark Morriss. There's talk about the songs, the state of music in the 90s and a couple of stories about seeing the band live... Host: Matt Latham Guest: Hannah from Society Owes Me A Gen X Podcast https://anchor.fm/societyowesmeagenxpodcast Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email ...
Jul 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 73
Matt talks to Jenna Million from Name 3 Songs and This Is My Brain on Music about the debut album from Wolf Alice, "My Love Is Cool". Jenna revisits gig memories and learns new stuff about the songs in the lead up to this podcast. Matt also has history with the album. How much? Well listen and find out! Host: Matt Latham Guest: Jenna Million http://www.jennamillion.com/ Listen to Name 3 Songs: https://name3songs.com/ Listen to This Is My Brain on Music: https://open.spotify.com/show/2MhrXnoME...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 72
What happens when a bunch of theatre kids form an emo band, and they get obsessed with the concept with death? My Chemical Romance end up creating The Black Parade. Brianne Leeson from Today's Lucky Winner talks about how she listened to the band in secret when she was younger, the talking of darker taboo subjects surrounding death and the formation of a narrative within the album itself. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Brianne Leeson Find all of the things Brianne is involved with here: https://linktr...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 71
What might be Pick A Disc's first episode on a pure Hip Hop album, Matt is joined by Elizabeth MacDuffie to discuss The Low End Theory by A Tribe Called Quest. The influence of the album, it's production and it's general sound are all talked about, alongside it's cultural relevance and how it saw the genesis of a few big named rappers. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Elizabeth McDuffie Check out Meat For Tea and the Meat for Teacast!! https://www.instagram.com/meatfortea https://www.facebook.com/meatfo...
May 24, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 70
Liverpool's Ed Poole talks to Matt about Manchester Orchestra's "Mean Everything to Nothing" and how Ed finds it gets better with age. They talk about Andy Hull's upbringing and how that translates into the lyrics and how that can be relatable. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Ed Poole Visit Ed's site here: https://www.edpoolemusic.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wema...
May 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 69
Matt is picking the album again with guest host Dan O'Dell aka Heartwork to talk about blink-182's Untitled album. They discuss their history with blink-182, their role in the culture of the late 90s/early 00s, the direction the album goes in and just frankly how ace the album is in general. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Dan O'Dell Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK3u We Made This: @wemade...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 68
Dipping into the 1970s Detroit music scene, Matt and guest Bill Van Veghel talk about Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band's live album "Live Bullet". They talk about the atmosphere of live music, the Detroit scene, the twenty-year nostalgia cycle and inadvertently some artists close to Matt's hometown... Host: Matt Latham Guest: Bill Van Veghel Give Bill's podcasts a listen here: https://phantomgalaxy.podbean.com/ http://landofthecreeps.blogspot.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagr...
Apr 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 67
Speaking about arguably one of the biggest pop albums from one of the biggest pop icons of the last couple of years, Kiara (from the Kiara Gets Drunk and Talks About Music podcast) muses on the growing talent of a new generation of artists. Kiara talks to Matt about Billie Eilish and her debut, talking about the sound, image and the impact this will have on pop music in the next few years. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Kiara Listen to Kiara Gets Drunk and Talks About Music: https://soundcloud.com/u...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 66
A very successful album, and one that Raymond Luu, from the Reel Asian Podcast, believes redefined the R'n'B genre. From the stories behind the songs and the discussion of the massive hit that was "Yeah", Ray and Matt deep dive on the first R'n'B album to be covered on Pick A Disc! Host: Matt Latham Guest: Raymond Luu https://lnk.bio/reelasianpodcast Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.com/invite/JnZjEYuK...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 65
With an over-arching story that can get quite complex alongside a demonic bicycle, Steve from the Play Your Pods Right podcast appears on the podcast to talk about Coheed and Cambria's Science Fiction epic "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness." Host: Matt Latham Guest: Steve Visit and listen to Play Your Pods Right! https://linktr.ee/playyourpods Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A ...
Mar 02, 2021•57 min•Ep. 64
Craig Mckenzie from the Kneel Before Blog and Podcast 616 on We Made This is the guest this fortnight as he talks about how he's rediscovered and found new things in The Goo Goo Dolls' "Let Love In". Matt chats to Craig about the process of finding new meaning in songs over time, especially with the current global pandemic. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Craig McKenzie http://kneelbeforeblog.co.uk/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Dis...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 63
Babs from the Over/Underrated podcast is the guest this fortnight to talk about the shoegaze/indie band Autolux and their album "Future Perfect". They talk about the nature of shoegaze, the structure of the album and just what kind of mood you might need to be in to listen to them. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Babs Visit and listen to Over/Underrated! https://anchor.fm/overunderratedmusicpod Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 62
Long time friend and sometimes influencer of Matt's music taste: James Addis is the guest this episode to talk about a band that he loves, Dexys and the album "Too-Rye-Ay" which has "Come on Eileen" on it. They're the band behind that song. They talk about how underrated the band are and just how versatile and influential they are. Host: Matt Latham Guest: James Addis Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord): https://discord.c...
Jan 19, 2021•58 min•Ep. 61
Back in 2015 Pick A Disc was a backdoor pilot episode on the movie podcast Pick A Flick. the guest was Lee Chrimes and the album talked about was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Murder Ballads". So Lee is OG from back in the day, and he's here to talk about the David Bowie album "Outside". An interesting experimental album with a lot of stuff going on, Matt and Lee delve deep into the album and how it's influenced Lee's creativity all these years. Host: Matt Latham Guest: Lee Chrimes Follow us on ...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 60
For their third album, @hindsband expanded their sound to cover more instruments and started to write in Spanish. The result is a varied and fuller sounding album than it's predecessors. Settling into a garage-pop like sound, "The Prettiest Curse" emerges as the band's best album. Guest picks by: @newpathstohelicon from @freewiththismonthsissue and @wedigmusicpcast Host: Matt Latham Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord...
Dec 31, 2020•8 min•Ep. 59
Bea Kristi aka Beabadoobee (@radvxz) spent her childhood surrounded by the 90s, be it movies and music. Incorporating elements of shoegaze, grunge and a little bit of dream-pop - Beabadoobee has crafted one of my favourite albums of the year. Guest picks by: Mark Adams from Far Too Many Pordcasts: The Birthday Massacre "Diamonds" and Space "Suburban Rock 'n' Roll" Host: Matt Latham Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . We Made This: @...
Dec 30, 2020•9 min•Ep. 58
An album that was unfairly snubbed for the Mercury Music Prize for silly reasons, Rina Sawayama has created a brilliant balance of the modern and throwback to the 2000s. But somehow manages to incorporate *all* of the sound from that time in one of the best albums this year. Guest picks by: Liam from The Naughtiest Noughty - also picking this album. Host: Matt Latham Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . We Made This: @wemadethispod htt...
Dec 29, 2020•7 min•Ep. 57
Californian Duo Best Coast released their latest album "Always Tomorrow" at the start of this year, with a renewed sense of purpose alongside singer Bethany Cosentino's sobriety and a better positive outlook on life. The result is an album that walks the fine line of optimism and realism. Guest picks by: Leanne / Anniemusic - Aiming for Enrike - "Music For Working Out" Tracy from We Dig Music - Honey Harper "Star Maker" Host: Matt Latham Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc...
Dec 28, 2020•6 min•Ep. 56
Previous Disc Pick-ee Dan o'Dell, aka Heartwork released an acoustic cover album of the Blink-182 record, "Enema of the State" after playing a Facebook live set of it earlier this year. It's roots are from a live set he played several years ago that I was at - and was one of the most fun sets I had the pleasure of watching. Dan has now recorded and released the whole album to listen to. Featuring picks from: Kiara from "Kiara Gets Drunk and Talks About Music" - Picking Bishop Briggs' "Champi...
Dec 27, 2020•11 min•Ep. 55
Welcome to Pick A Disc's Best of 2020! To begin with, we have the "Wages of Fear" award given to the album discovered this year that was released in a previous year. This year that album belongs to The Manimals' "Multiverse". An album so densely packed with layers of meaning and interpretation that ten minutes of me rambling doesn't seem enough. Also included in this episode is a snapshot of Matt Roi Berger of Teen Girl Scientist Monthly speaking about the album and the band themselves. Ho...
Dec 26, 2020•11 min•Ep. 54
Matt welcomes back Meg from the Gin and Beer It podcast to talk about the soundtrack to the very divisive movie Love Actually. They talk about the movie alongside the songs, and the differences between the UK and the US release. They also talk about Christmas, as this is a Christmas special! Host: Matt Latham Guest: Meg Visit and listen to Gin and Beer It! https://ginandbeeritshow.com/ Follow us on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram: @PickADisc. Email us at pickadisc@gmail.com . Pick A Disc(Ord):...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 53
