Episode 14: MARILLION CLUTCHING AT STRAWS (Part Two) - Being Mick Pointer

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Childhood friends and Beatles fans Jeremy Wall and Vince Stadon blather on and on and on about pop music and low culture. They play and discuss five songs – (nearly) always at least one by The Beatles – and each episode Jeremy sets it upon himself to controversially rate certain bands/artists on Vince’s poorly constructed Overrated Board.

Episode 14:  Being Mick Pointer

Marillion’s Clutching at Straws - Part Two (July  22^nd 2018)

This episode:  

(In order to fully comply with SoundCloud’s Copyright guidelines, all songs used in Vince & Jeremy’s Podcast have been edited to a "Substantive of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.")

For the second episode of a two-part series, we go track-by-track through Marillion’s 1987 album Clutching at Straws, and as Vince casts Robert Downey Jnr to play Marillion’s frontman in a hypothetical biopic, Jeremy does Barry White impressions.  We struggle to name an album by It Bites, or anything by Then Jericho (remember them?); we give the album a final score; we discuss the hardest things we’ve ever had to do whilst chomping on sugar mice; and we vow to never again accidentally insult the north east of England.

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FULL TRACK LISTING

Overrated Podcast Theme Tune – There It Is (Royalty Free)

Incommunicado  – Marillion

Torch Song  – Marillion

Slainte Mhath – Marillion

Sugar Mice  – Marillion

The Last Straw  – Marillion

Vince’s rankings:

11 - Just for the Record

10 - The Last Straw

9 - Going Under

8 - Incommunicado

7 - White Russian

6 - Slainte Mhath

5 - Sugar Mice

4 - Hotel Hobies

3 - That Time of the Night

2 - Torch Song

1 - Warm Wet Circles

Jeremy’s Rankings

11 - White Russian

10 - Sugar Mice

9 - Going Under

8 - Just for the Record

7 - Slainte Mhath

6 - That Time of the Night

5 - Hotel Hobbies

4 - The Last Straw

3 - Incommunicado

2 - Warm Wet Circles

1 - Torch Song

Final Scores: 157 / 220

Clutching at Straws gets a rating of 71/100

VINCE RECOMMENDS:

I Remember Elvis Presley (The King is Dead) - Danny Mirror