Ep. 48 | Linda Thompson | Proxy Music

Welcome to Episode 48 of This is Not Happening (TINH).  An
Album of the Month (AOTM) Podcast where in Part 1 we deep dive
into an Album that one of us has chosen and in Part 2 we play
'Spin it or Bin it'.  This is where we pick a theme and each
select a song that represents that theme. We judge each others
selections by asking the question 'Spin It or Bin It'?

This month, in Part 1, Guy has picked the an album that could not
be further from last month's Charli XCX outing. He's also picked
the best named TINH AOTM ever, Linda Thompson's Proxy
Music.

In Part 2, Spin It or Bin It, the theme is simple ... 'Long
Songs' no explanation of the theme required here apart from Guy's
completely arbitrary suggestion that all tracks had to be over 8
minutes.

Part 1 | Linda Thompson | Proxy Music
English Folk musician legend Linda Thompson has lived
enough life for several people. The good, the bad and everything
in between. She's now a 72 year old songwriter force who has
sadly lost her super-power to sing ... so she's written songs for
other artists to perform. The album is an eclectic collection of
songs and collaborators pulled together through the concept of
performing through a proxy. The critics love it with a combined
Metacritic Score of 86. There's a lot of love on the pod but not
without a few reservations along the way.



Listen to the album here.

Watch Linda on Jools Holland back in 2011 videos here.

Guy references a couple of articles in his introduction and
conversation they're worth a look and can be found here
and here.




Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | Long Songs.

We love a long song. Even our resident (but absent on this
episode) pop being loves a long song. Guy defines a long song as
anything over 8 mins, who are we to argue with that kind of
logic. So them's the rules. Who bought what to the table to judge
in Spin It or Bin It?


Guy chose ''Black Star' by David Bowie.

Nolan chose'Dance Yrself Clean'   by LCD
Soundsystem

Joey chose 'Menneskekollectivet' by Lost Girls



See you on Episode 49 ... 


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