Scene But Not Herd

We break the album club rules and listen to an EP this week, asking ourselves: why are emo boys obsessed with singing me to sleep?

Uri-ne for a treat this week with this steaming fresh slice of Panic! At The Disco, and his latest music album - Pray For The Wicked.

Ste and Natalie settle down inside the mouth of Canadian pop tinker: Carly Rae Jepsen, to enjoy the apparently incredibly well regarded pop masterpiece E-mo-tion. Sia?!  You couldn't miss 'er!

Not all of these number ones are number ones... and not all of these songs on this Destiny's Child album are by Destiny's Child.  And who bought the shoes that I'm wearin'? Was it me, an independent woman, or a no good scrub trying to get off the call block? What the fuck is an automo bill?Apologies for the sound quality on this one - it's all Natalie's fault. 

Canadian - check.  Prog - check. Complaining about length - check.  We're a parody of ourselves at this point.  We listen to Volition by Protest the Hero and experience death by 10,000 arpeggios.

Take a walk a ride down the hormonal highway with us this week, as we experience puberty through the eyes of all three of the Busted boys simultaneously. The most difficult time is A Present for Everyone. See, Busted, I made it into a fucking pun, why couldn't you?!

Ste and Natalie awkwardly discuss their very different opinions of much-loved 'extreme metal' band Skeletonwitch. Highlights include, trying to find new ways to describe the 100th guitar riff in an album, and how much skill is involved in making it sound like you're genuinely being sick.

Ste and Natalie just about survive this shockingly poor Christmas anthology. Someone actually got paid to compile this tracklist! Never go near this CD, it will ruin your Christmas.

Ste & Natalie spend one hour trying to decide which word to emphasise when saying "Jimmy Eat World", and somehow also talk about their self-funded breakout album and emo staple - Bleed American. The only wrong answer is "World".

Guess who gets pre-release access to albums now? That's right - this week we're talking about Boston Manor's brand new album Welcome to the Neighbourhood.

You're goin' 'ome in a fuckin' ambulance... Actually no-one with any artistic merit ends up in an ambulance this episode. It's not that kind of show. It's a very cheap and obvious choice from Ste this week, the widely acclaimed and incredibly well-remembered post hardcore classic from Thrice.

How on earth is anyone is sleeping through the noisy racket of these young men from Sheffield?! I'm sure that's what you are all asking. And by you, I mean we, because obviously you are we. Or are you? This week it's While She Sleeps album You Are We.

Thanks to a an incorrect Google Answerbox, Ste and Natalie embarrassingly refer to the members of Aqua by the wrong names for the entire episode, as we talk about their bubblegum euro sex nuthouse debut of a debut album - Aquarium. If you were going to namecheck a candy though - would you really choose a Bounty? C'mon...

Bit of a different one this week, as Natalie and Ste comment on the work of Various Artists in the second edition of Punk Goes Pop, a cover anthology series featuring pop songs reimagined by bands loosely defined as punk by Fearless Records.

This week Ste and Natalie perform a vivid dissection (that may or may not mock the strut of vivisection) on At The Drive-In's critically acclaimed and super fucking weird Relationship of Command. 

Ste and Natalie join the neighborhood watch in despair this week, as The Kooks walk all over their cars with summer smash Inside In/Inside Out. But did they walk all over our hearts? Have a listen and find out.

Hey Alex... the world's first lactating contortionist stripper called - she wants her name back.  That's right, this week Ste and Natalie are talking about sloppy emomen, Alexisonfire and their debut album, also called Alexisonfire.

Ste and Natalie drink from a well of Icelandic* rage this week, and fundamentally disagree on the taste, thanks to Black Foxxes' debut album Reidi. *bottled in Exeter, presumably to get around import tax

Ste and Natalie travel back in time 18 years to the dawn of the Willennium to talk about the y2k scare, Will Smith's profound admiration for Bill Gates, and feebly attempt to discuss hip hop music, to the dismay of actual hip hop fans everywhere.

Ste and Natalie say words about pop punk classic Sticks and Stones by sage relationship pragmatists, New Found Glory. We had no idea when we recorded this episode that the primary lyricist for the band at this time was founding guitarist Steve Klein, who was removed from the band and arraigned for some serious crimes the same day. Throughout we attribute the lyrics to Jordan. Bad research on our part, soz. On the plus side, we're sure that knowing this would have made for a darker episode and we've all got enough darkness in our lives.

Ste and Natalie Unimagine what it would be like to be an Australian wolf with a foot fetish this week, thanks to the anatomically terrifying Hands Like Houses.

Are you ready for this? Ste and Natalie embark on the longest lyrical analysis in the history of the podcast, over the critically acclaimed burlesque sexpop troupe, Pussycat Dolls - and their 2005 album PCD.

Hapless thrashin' victims Ste and Natalie listen to Megadeth classic Rust in Peace and ponder: how many guitar solos is too many?

Ste and Natalie head to the Marmozet enclosure this week, in search of the perfect 'cable plugging into an amp' sound effect. If only we'd known then what we know now...

Ste and Natalie dress for success in their pointiest shoulder pads this week, as they Look Sharp! for about 45 minutes too long... in celebration of the album that broke America for Swedish pop duo Roxette.

Ste and Natalie join The Black Parade this week to finally stand up in the fight against Bad Things Happening Generally, after a persuasive recruitment drive from emo super-friends My Chemical Romance.

Natalie and Ste taste the other side, courtesy of trippin' tranceboys Infected Mushroom and their psychedelic 2017 album; Return to the Sauce. We concluded that drugs are probably alright.

Ste and Natalie enjoy a terrifying glimpse into the mind of Maroon 5 frontman and self proclaimed sex expert Adam Levine, through the window of the 2002 album Songs about Jane.

Ste and Natalie cook up a hearty batch of genre soup this week with cool beard boys and guitar funmen He Is Legend and their 2004 debut album, I Am Hollywood.

Ste and Natalie head down to the beachhouse, settle down with a nice warm crotchful of Canadian Pie and and enjoy a Vacation with pop punk wienerboys Seaway and someone called Lula who may or may not be a dog.

Sorrow. Anguish. Grief.Just a few of the themes Natalie experienced this week as Ste finally tricks someone into listening to him talk about one of his favourite bands, melancholy Finnish poets and melodic death metal royalty... Insomnium.

It's knit brows all round in no time at all, courtesy of the aptly named Taylor Swift - Ste and Natalie grapple with her 2017 album Reputation.

Ste and Natalie melt their popsicles over California, the first album from Blink 182 since their split with founding guitarist and singer Tom Delonge, and appointment of Alkaline Trio frontman and sad basset hound Matt Skiba.

The halls are decked, the sleigh bells ring and somewhere out there, a figure made of snow comes to life. Michael Bublé has been reanimated again and he's only got one thing on his mind - hanging that mistletoe! You know the rules, ladies...

Ste & Natalie tread carefully through the breakout 2015 record That's The Spirit from scene kids turned popmen Bring Me The Horizon and take a moment to appreciate the truly fantastic name of Jordan Fish.

Ste inflicts an act of profound emotional violence on Natalie by forcing her to listen to the seminal 1988 concept album, Operation:Mindcrime, by prog metal cheeseboys Queensrÿche.

Ste & Natalie pull apart the fourth studio album from Canadian electro-pop queen Lights, and ride roughshod over a carefully constructed narrative with some madcap theories.