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JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to Jethro TullJethro Tull's Seven Decades tour hit Madrid at the back end of 2024 and Jeffrey Music was there, or at least John was there ... so join us as we talk through the gig and complain about how uncomfortable the venue was.
Click here to see the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website with links to all our podcasts and articles and whatnot.
2025-03-2928 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to CudLate 2024, John headed off to London to see one of the UK's finest four-piece art rock bands: Cud, supported by the amusing and eccentric John Mouse.
In this episode John and Gordon discuss the gig and various tangential topics, including, but not limited to, the importance of being able to sit down sometimes.
Here's the article on the website that has a bit more about the trip, as well as the gig: https://jeffreymusicrocks.wordpress.com/2024/11/11/the-cud-band-in-london/
2025-02-1334 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to PJ HarveyThe fellas head off to a stormy Madrid and a rain-soaked poorly-located Halifax to see a favourite artist of theirs, the brilliant PJ Harvey!
See here for the article on the website with a few photos from the Madrid gig.
2024-08-2928 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey Music's amusing pop quiz (season two)At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short). You will recall that after season one's enthralling episode, Our Gords is one-nil to the good, so it's all to play for!
Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions.
2024-08-0123 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey Music's amusing pop quiz (season one)At the end of each Season of the popular Jeffrey Music Podcast, your hosts John and Gordon ask each other a series of pop trivia questions about the artists featured in the previous season: the Jeffrey Music Amusing Pop Quiz (or APQ for short).
Click here to visit our JeffreyMusic.Rocks website page that includes all the questions.
The winner of the quiz receives one point in the overall Jeffrey Music's APQ score, or in the case of a draw each will receive a half-point. A system similar to the Ryder Cup in a deliberate...2024-06-1935 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: RushThe last in our boring series of Top 10s, and we complete our look at Season 2 alumni by revisiting the Canadian trio Rush! The (very long) original podcast, 8 months in the making, was both a trip down memory lane and a voyage of discovery, and proved to be an absolute delight for the Jeffrey Music fellas ... so enjoy (sort of) listening to them waffle on about their favourite tracks!
Here's the link to the post on the JeffreyMusic website, and here to the playlists on Spotify and Deezer.
2024-05-1314 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: BalthazarWe're nearly through with this ill-advised idea to do Top 10s, but seeing as we've got this far, let's get to the end - this one is about the brilliant Belgian band Balthazar, a real gem we uncovered since doing this podcast, and we're quite pleased with ourselves for having done so! It's one thing to claim to be musical explorers, not stuck in the past with just playing the same old stuff from long ago, it's quite another to actually do it - at Jeffrey Music we damn well walk the talk.
Anyway, enough about how...2024-05-0608 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: Otis ReddingOur top ten tracks from soul legend Otis Redding.
Here’s a link to the original Otis Redding episode in which we talk through his career and rank the albums - we think this is one of our best episodes because it's all so new to us.
Here's a link to this episode's page on our website, although there's not much on it that isn't on here, so no point in clicking, it's just to get another link out into the world.
Here are the playlists of our combined top 10s on Spotify an...2024-05-0108 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: Patti SmithTop music journalists and hangers-on, John and Gordon, talk us through their top ten tracks of American punk poet Patti Smith. You can read more about it here on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website and for those wanting to delve deeper, here's a link to the original Patti Smith episode in which we talk through their career and rank the albums, and here for the Jeffrey Goes to Patti Smith (gig review) podcast and webpage.
Here are the playlists of our combined top 10s on Spotify and Deezer.
2024-04-1406 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: Simon and GarfunkelThe Jeffrey Music gang talk through their top ten tracks of New York folk-rock harmony duo Simon and Garfunkel - more info here on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website and for those wanting to delve deeper, here's a link to the original Simon and Garfunkel episode in which they talk through their career and rank the albums.
Here are the playlists of our combined top tens on Spotify and Deezer.
2024-03-2912 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: Dire StraitsJohn and Gordon present their top ten tracks of British rockers Dire Straits - more info here on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website and for those wanting to delve deeper, here's a link to the original Dire Straits episode in which they talk through their career and rank the albums.
The composite playlist of our top tracks can be found here on Spotify and over here on Deezer, or in the widget beneath this text (which doesn’t seem to be working properly).
Here's a link to the website pagee on JeffreyMusic.Rocks.
2024-03-2315 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: SuedeOur top ten tracks from British indie pop giants Suede (known as the London Suede in the US due to a name clash) - a band that bowled us over in the early-/mid-nineties and who are that rare breed of indie pop bands who seem to be getting better and better, despite their advanced years.
Our original podcast ranking the albums of Suede can be found here.
The composite playlist of our top tracks can be found here on Spotify and over here on Deezer, or in the list beneath this text.
...2024-03-1308 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: The Devil Makes ThreeThe Jeffrey team discuss their top 10 tracks by Americana band The Devil Makes Three in this podcast.
Our original podcast ranking the albums of The Devil Makes Three can be found here.
The playlist of our top tracks is here on Spotify and over here on Deezer, and here's the link to the webpage for this episode.
2024-03-0608 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey’s Top 10: QueenThe Jeffrey team reveal their top 10 tracks by British glam pop rock megastars Queen.
The composite playlist of our top tracks can be found here on Spotify and over here on Deezer.
As usual, check out the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website for more info and whatnot.
2024-02-2609 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.10: the Jeffrey Report (Season Two)A reflective discussion on the second series of the podcast (nearly three years in the making!), in which we look at any new activity from podcast alumni (namely Jethro Tull, dEUS and Muse), talk a bit about Komeda (and Marcus Holmberg's band Woodlands) and hand out the Golden Jeffrey for best album, as well as a few other big awards.
We also add continue where we left off three years ago by adding to the Jeffrey Podcast Jolly Party Playlist™ and creating a new one for Season Two.
If you want to party like Jeffrey, click...2024-02-0957 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.9: QueenThe music of Queen is possibly the most recognised music of any British band in history - obviously The Beatles are the most well-known, their story still fascinates us, but we reckon if you were to ask a random group of people to hum a few songs by any British band, Queen would emerge as the band having the most universally recognised tunes among the masses.
The Queen Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
The Queen page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here.
2023-12-101h 24JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.8: The Devil Makes ThreeIn this episode Gordon's love of Americana rears its head again and we explore the works of country-bluegrass-ragtime sorts The Devil Makes Three, the episode coinciding with Gords seeing them live in Nottingham (so he goes on a bit about that too).
The The Devil Makes Three Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
The The Devil Makes Three page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here.
2023-09-3032 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.7: SuedeSuede bounded onto the pop scene in the early 90s with their unique brand of Smiths-Bowie glam pop-rock and we were hooked. From the first chords of the single Animal Nitrate, then their smash hit debut album (then the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history) we were a couple of insatiable young Suede fans.
It didn't last long, they soon lost Bernard Butler, their influential guitarist and main songwriter, but surprisingly that didn't seem to faze them ... they bounced back immediately with a cluster of top ten hits and a masterful pop album (Coming Up) that...2023-08-2858 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to PlaceboJohn and Gordon discuss their recent experiences of seeing Placebo at two different festivals. Actually not that recent, Gordon's was last year, but John's was only the other day, so it counts (Gords also saw them in between at the O2 Academy in Leeds, but we're not really including that).
Links to the setlist on Spotify and Deezer, and the page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website (with a couple of cheeky photos, despite the band's restrictions).
2023-08-1334 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to dEUSA bit of a dEUS theme emerging at the moment, but it will pass now the album has landed and the tour has made its way through Paris (where Gordon saw them) and Madrid (where John saw them) - this here podcast is the review of those splendid evenings with the Antwerp quintet.
Link to the setlist (on Spotify and Deezer) and photos on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website.
2023-04-1343 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey Podcast Album Review: How to Replace it by dEUSA firm favourite of the Jeffrey Podcast fellas, the innovative indie aces dEUS have only gone and cranked out a new album, the first in over a decade - what do we think of it? You'll need to listen to find out ...
(Unless you just want to read where we've ranked it on the dEUS page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website) - and here's the link to the How to Replace It page.
2023-03-1232 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.6: Dire StraitsDire Straits were inescapable in the 1980s, from Sultans of Swing's omnipresence on rock radio, to smash-hit album Brothers in Arms smothering the charts in hit singles, Mark Knopfler and the gang were everywhere!
Despite this, we didn't know them that well. We knew the obvious hit singles, and a couple of albums, but we didn't know that much about the lesser-known stuff. So, in a spirit of (re-)discovery, we - clutching John Ilsley's biography "My Life in Dire Straits" - set out to explore their six-album discography, and what we discovered was that there is...2023-02-171h 06JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.5: Simon and GarfunkelWe've always known about Simon and Garfunkel as a thing, and known about both men as solo artists (mainly Paul Simon), but until now we'd never taken the time to listen properly to their five album output and decide which we liked best.
Their songs are inescapable, they're part of the furniture of Western Civilization, you cannot not know Mrs Robinson and The Sound of Silence and Hazy Shade of Winter and Bridge Over Troubled Water because even now, half a century later, these songs are still meaningful, still poignant, and still played.
So, as...2023-01-0654 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.4: Patti SmithNeither of us knew much about Patti Smith when we started this podcast, we knew her name and thought of her as a mystical punk poet from the seventies, but didn't know much more ... then as we have explored other artists over the past few years, Patti Smith's name kept popping up over and again as a one of the most influential people of her generation ... and so we thought why not put her on the list for the Jeffrey Music treatment, and here we are!
The Patti Smith Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify an...2022-08-191h 09JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to Patti SmithJohn and Gordon head off to see the legendary Patti Smith, not an artist they knew particularly well before the research for this podcast. John goes to Madrid's Noches del Botánico festival and Gordon to Bearded Theory's Spring Gathering at Catton Hall in Derbyshire.
The Patti Smith playlist (in combined/fudged setlist order) is here.
Link to the post (including photos) on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website.
2022-07-2535 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to The Dead SouthSecond in a series of live gig reviews, the fellas teamed up to see The Dead South at Madrid's La Riviera, supported by Elliott Brood.
The The Dead South playlist (in setlist order) is here.
Link to the post (including photos) on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website.
2022-05-1346 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.3: Otis ReddingThis podcast is not just about us wallowing in the music we already know and love (although it is mainly that), it's also about us exploring new stuff and addressing our musical blind spots ... and thus we decided to delve into 1960s soul and Motown with the great Otis Redding!
Our main source of research was Jonathan Gould's book Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life.
The
The Otis Redding Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
The Otis Redding page on the JeffreyMusic.Rocks website is here....2022-04-091h 20JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.2: BalthazarIn a change of pace, John and Gordon treat us to a discussion on Belgian indie-rock-pop-electro-soul types Balthazar and rank their five studio albums. This coincided (not by accident!) with seeing the band live and so there is separate gig review podcast available for your listening pleasure!
There wasn't much research done because there's not much information out there. Their website is devoid of facts, although there's a bit here on their Wikipedia page.
Here is the link to the La Cigale concert in Paris we mention.
The Balthazar Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is av...2022-02-0448 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 2.1: RushNo rankings audio product would be complete without discussing legendary heavy-rock / prog-metal / synth-pop / math-rock trio Rush, and Jeffrey is no exception in that regard. John and Gords head off to Toronto to go through their discography, ranking their albums, drooling at the musicianship, whining at the thin 80s production, and argumentatively struggling to put the bloody albums in any sort of sensible order.
The Rush Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
Research for this podcast included many online interviews, including this recent one with Alex Lifeson and this with Ge...2022-01-072h 50JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey goes to BalthazarIn a new series of podcasts from the Jeffrey Musical Empire, the fellas head off to see Belgian electro-indie aces Balthazar live in concert.
John saw them in Madrid's Sala Mon, and Gordon in London's Electric Ballroom.
The Balthazar playlist (in setlist order) is here.
2021-11-2925 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.10: the Jeffrey Report (Season 1)A reflective discussion on the first series of the podcast, dishing out the Golden Jeffreys: best album, best album cover and a special mention for the coolest character. We also add a couple of live tracks to the playlists to illustrate the live side of each artist ... and, because we know a thing of two about parties at Jeffrey Towers, we collate a Jeffrey Podcast Jolly Party Playlist™ with tracks from all featured artists.
If you want to party like Jeffrey, click here for a link to the playlist on Spotify, or here if you just want to l...2021-04-2655 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.9: Pink FloydThe Jeffrey podcast ends Season One with prog rock pioneers Pink Floyd. John and Gordon discuss (at length) the music and career of one of England's most admired and successful bands - John's favourite during those awkward teenage years - and rank their albums. No easy task for a band with so much variety covering such a lengthy career, but we got there in the end.
The Pink Floyd Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
(This is a reissue of the podcast as the original release was not the fi...2021-03-262h 18JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.8: The White StripesJohn and Gordon explore the career of Detroit delta-blues rockers The White Stripes, discussing their music and upholstery, ranking their albums and picking their favourite songs for the playlist. A mix of nostalgia, discovery and incredulity, the glamorous gothic duo do not escape the sharp-edge of Jeffrey's critical tongue.
Special guest appearance by Daisy Dog.
The The White Stripes Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
In preparation for the podcast we (i.e. Gordon) read The White Stripes: 21st Century Blues by Dick Porter and Fell...2021-02-2653 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.7: Fiona AppleSparks fly as brothers John and Gordon disagree about the relative merits of Fiona Apple's output, in particular her highly-regarded 2020 album "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" - some may argue that the fact that John so obviously fancies Apple may have influenced his judgement, but they're your words, not mine.
The Fiona Apple Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
Research for the podcast was not so easy, there isn't a great deal out there about Fiona Apple. We watched various online interviews (including this for the WTF podcast wi...2021-01-2352 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.6: MuseJohn and Gords head to Teignmouth in Devon (not literally) to discuss the career and discography of power rock trio Muse, ranking their albums and assembling a playlist of their favourite tracks from each. Warning: we overuse the word "bombastic" but we try not to overdo the Radiohead comparisons, so it's not too bad.
The Muse Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
As part of the research for this podcast we read Muse: Out of this World by Mark Beaumont and Muse: Inside The Muscle Museum by B...2020-12-241h 18JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.5: Talking HeadsIn this episode John and Gordon head stateside for new-wave-post-punk-pop maestros Talking Heads and rank their albums - a favourite of John's but a band that had largely passed Gordon by, so a voyage of discovery for the little fella!
The Talking Heads Jeffrey Podcast Playlist can be found here on Spotify and here on Deezer
There are quite a few documentary films (including this from The South Bank Show and Well How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of the Talking Heads) and interviews on YouTube we used in preparation for the podcast. Gor...2020-09-041h 19JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.4a: Marcus Holmberg interview (Komeda)Supplemental Jeffrey (1.4a) is a companion piece to Jeffrey 1.4 (Komeda) and contains the full interview with their bass player Marcus Holmberg, discussing Koemda's career and music.
Marcus also ranks the albums and picks his favourite tracks - the playlist is here on Spotify or here on Deezer.
Komeda fans may also be interested in Marcus's current band Woodlands (link opens in Spotify).
2020-08-0854 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.4: KomedaIn this episode we head to Sweden, where John & Gordon gush embarrassingly about one of their favourite indie pop bands from the 90s Komeda and rank their albums and ask why they don't get together and record some more stuff FFS!! ... if you don't know the band, here's your big chance.
The Komeda Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
There's very little information anywhere about the great Swedish popsters, so we were very fortunate to get to speak to their bass player Marcus Holmberg. You can hear the...2020-08-0249 minJeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.3: RadioheadIn this episode John and Gordon bicker about one of John's top bands Radiohead and rank their albums, you can probably guess which albums cause the most controversy but who seriously thinks Amnesiac is better than Kid A? You'll have to listen to find out (it was Gordon!)
The Radiohead Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
Among other things, we read Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium by Barney Hoskyns and Radiohead - The Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide ahead of recording this podcast.
Link to the post on the...2020-06-151h 22JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.2: dEUSJohn and Gords talk through the career of one of their favourite bands, super-cool Belgian indie rockers dEUS, and rank their albums and reveal their awkward man-crush on Mauro Pawlowski.
The dEUS Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
We had some technical problems with the sound of Gordon's audio, but please persevere, it gets better.
There isn't a lot out there about dEUS, but in preparation for this discussion we watched Time Is The State of My Jeans film and various interviews with Tom Barman, especially on Fa...2020-05-261h 05JeffreyMusic.RocksJeffrey 1.1: Jethro TullThe Jeffrey Podcast makes it's debut as John and Gords talk through the career of eccentric British rockers Jethro Tull and rank their albums. There are some long-forgotten gems, some fun discoveries, and some stuff that let's just say hasn't stood the test of time quite so robustly.
The Jethro Tull Jeffrey Podcast Playlist is available here on Spotify and here on Deezer.
There are loads of interviews and concert movies on YouTube that helped with the research for this discussion. The book we mention is Original Jethro Tull: The Glory Years (1968-1980) by Gary P...2020-05-081h 53