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S02E01 Enigma 'MCMXC AD'

We are back after our break with a new season and a new year's worth of number one albums to listen to. 1991 kicks off with Enigma's debut album and it definitely makes a big impression on Dave and Krister as you will hear. You may also hear that the sound quality has improved a bit and we no longer sound like we're recording in a bucket in a field. Or at the very least, a better quality bucket. Hurrah for new equipment.As well as discussing Enigma and why you'd want to listen to monks chanting over a breakbeat we also chat about Gang Starr, Robert Palmer and C&C Music Factory. As usual we've put together a playlist of all the songs (including the Enigma album) that we talk about for you to listen to here.It's good to be back!

S01E16 Bonus Episode - The Best of 1990 Part 2

And so here we are at the end of our first season. This is the second part of our bonus podcasts focusing on what our own favourite albums from 1990 are, this week we're counting down our top fives. Can you guess what will be in there? If you've listened to our nonsense over the preceding podcasts then very possibly as we're pretty vocal about what we do like.
We'd love to know what your favourite albums were from this year as well, hit us up on one of our social media outlets and post your list so we can argue with you and tell you why you're wrong. All details on our website www.pclpodcast.com
Have a listen to our playlist of handpicked tunes from each of the albums in our top fives here - http://tinyurl.com/PCL016playlist . Thanks for listening, see you soon for Season Two and a journey through 1991!

S01E15 Bonus Episode - The Best of 1990 Part 1

After listening to a whole year's worth of number one albums we have come to the end of our journey through 1990. And to celebrate we decided to choose our own top ten albums from the year and chat about those - this is part one where we run down our numbers ten to six. What will be in there? Will any of the albums we talked about throughout our first season feature in either of our lists? How many of our top tens will feature saxophone solos and reggae versions? Find out inside.
We've put one song from each of our album choices onto a Spotify playlist so you can listen along and judge for yourself if our nominations are actually any good or if we're pretty much just smugly wanking off and pretending that anyone is interested in our opinions. Playlist is here - http://tinyurl.com/PCL015playlist
We'd love you to get in contact with your own favourite albums released in 1990 so we can see what sort of listeners we've got - all of our contact details and social media things are on our website www.pclpodcast.com so do give us a shout, we're dying to know what oddities you're all into.

S01E14 Madonna 'The Immaculate Collection'

The second of our "cheat" episodes from 1990, or "bonus podcasts" if you're being generous, this Madonna compilation is one of Dave's favourite ever albums which will become very obvious as we go through. Will he go so far as to defend the likes of La Isla Bonita or Cherish? You'll have to listen to find out.
As well as discussing the merits of Madonna we also chat about EMF, Methods of Mayhem (!) and why you should never have sex with your idols.
All the songs we talk about are in a handy playlist for you as always - http://tinyurl.com/PCL014playlist. Enjoy!

S01E13 Very Best Of Elton John

We know, we know, we said we weren't going to do any compilations or Best Ofs but just listen to the podcast and we explain our reasoning. Basically it comes down to "it's our podcast and we'll do what we want" to be honest. But it's a megamassivebig album to take a look at, this is a LOT of Elton John right here. Krister is still a fan of classic Elton, Dave is Elton-curious so let's see where he ends up after hearing a double album of greatest hits.
Along the way we talk briefly about things like NWA, Kim Appleby and Stevie Wonder. And Cliff Richard but let's skim past that if we can.
As always, here's a big old Spotify playlist of all the songs we chat about in this week's episode so that you can listen to them at your leisure - http://tinyurl.com/PCL013playlist

S01E12 Paul Simon 'The Rhythm Of The Saints'

We're into October of 1990 and in fact are at the last non-compilation album number one of the year. Paul Simon's follow-up to Graceland was much anticipated, and it obviously got to number one since we're talking about it here, but is it any good? Do you have to like "world music" to get it? Does it have pan pipes in it? All questions answered within.
 
At the same time as this was riding high the charts are full of songs by the likes of Happy Mondays, Belinda Carlisle and Public Enemy so we also chat about them for a bit as you can imagine. Full Spotify playlist of songs to listen along to available at http://tinyurl.com/PCL012playlist.
 
For details of all the various ways to listen to our other episodes or get in contact with us please visit www.pclpodcast.com - do say hello if you fancy, we love that shit.

S01E11 The Charlatans' 'Some Friendly'

Into October of 1990 and we've hit upon an album that Krister used to love and remembers very fondly. Will it be as good as he remembers? Dave doesn't really give a shit one way or the other as this sort of early 90s indie passed him right by and at quite some distance.
 
We discuss Tim Burgess' bizarre lyrics, the use of Hammond organs in music generally, and how embarrassing it would be to sustain an injury in a fight at a Status Quo concert. We also get the chance to play and talk about the likes of Maria McKee, MC Hammer and, god help us all, Scooter.
 
All of the songs we talk about are in our weekly playlist as usual, listen along with us here - http://tinyurl.com/PCL011playlist. Check out www.pclpodcast.com for all our social media and contact details.

S01E10 George Michael 'Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1' (and a very brief mention of the Three Tenors)

Once again we find ourselves having to acknowledge a record featuring Pavarotti because the 3 Tenors album was number one for five weeks but we skip pretty much immediately past it and focus on George Michael's re-defining 'Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1'. Neither of us have heard this whole album before and we agreed that we were looking forward to it - does it hold up to scrutiny nearly 30 years later?
Along the way we manage to fit in discussion of why Britain is ashamed of its heavy metal roots, why the Thunderstruck drinking game is the best of all song-based drinking games and why so many 1990 number one albums have one ill-judged reggae song on them.
Playlist with everything we talk about (except the 3 Tenors) available here - http://tinyurl.com/PCL010playlist .
Website with all the info - www.pclpodcast.com