Mick and the PhatMan Talking Music
Join Mick and Jeff as they talk about artists, albums and music genres with passion that comes from personal connection. They’ve seen artists in concert at venues that don’t even exist today, bought albums when they were released on vinyl and, in some cases, met the artists.
Sometimes they love the artist or music they're talking about. Sometimes they don’t. But, without fail, you'll always hear something you didn’t know.
Mick and the PhatMan Talking Music
Two seasons of great music commentary
A recap of the highlights of 2 years & 45 episodes of this podcast! Talked about more than 300 artists, shows, and albums - who could ask for more? They’ve recorded in some of Australia's most remote parts of Australia, regularly bad-mouthed Jeff Buckley, and decided that Alice Cooper was a pretty good guy despite his music after “Welcome to my Nightmare” being pretty terrible!
The Rolling Stone 500 Best Songs of all Time got Jeff all hot under the collar: “How does Kelly ****ing Clarkson get into any list of the Top 500 songs?!”
Peter from Mackay tried to tell US about Globite School Bags; Gabbie from LA hates Coldplay as much as Mick does; and Ian from Sydney wants more random "I think they're doing the drugs again" spin outs like the idea that a giant Elon Musk battery would revolutionise the Outback. Ian also started the scandal about Honey and Mead industry payola. (Thank you, Justine!)
A big thank you to the fans, to the magazines who wrote some very complimentary articles, and of course, to Roy and HG, whose radio program, “This Sporting Life” was a staple during our youth and our inspiration to start up.
2023 is going to be a great year - more stories of your favourite musicians and a look at some musicians you might not be too familiar with.
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Here’s a list of the best books and magazines Mick has referenced over the last 2 seasons:
- What’s Welsh for Zen? (John Cale) – Victor Bockris
- Up-Tight, The Velvet Underground Story – Victor Bockris/Gerard Malanga
- You are beautiful and you are alone (Nico) - Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
- The Severed Alliance (The Smiths) – Johnny Rogan
- Transformer (Lou Reed) – Bockris
- I’ll sleep when I’m dead (Warren Zevon) – Crystal Zevon
- On some faraway beach (Eno) - David Sheppard
- Tony Visconti, The Autobiography – Tony Visconti
- The History of Rock in the 70’s - Uncut Magazine (from Melody Maker & NME archives)
- Anger is an energy – John Lydon
- I’m your Man, The life of Leonard Cohen – Sylvie Simmons
- Peter Gabriel, An Authorized Biography – Spencer Bright
- The Birthday Party, and other epic adventures – Robert Brokenmouth
- David Hepworth:
- Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There
- Nothing is Real
- Uncommon People
And of course......
- Mr Robert Dimery's “1001 Albums You Must Hear before You Die” (2021)
Magazines
- Mojo - print and on-line
- Classic Rock - on line
- Far Out - on line
The Mick and the Phatman 2022 Spotify Playlist
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