Taste's Funny Podcast

Live (four months ago) from a Morrisons car park, and we're just chatting nonsense and music. Full disclosure, the microphone we used for this picked up what a lot of people would describe as "an uncomfortable amount of breathing", and was also "not great quality", while simultaneously being "not as funny as we think we are". That will also be true of the next one. But if that doesn't bother you then please enjoy this episode 

Recorded a year ago. Edited six months ago. The last one in the can. We haven't stopped, just had stuff going on, sorry folks. Please enjoy this one for now!

Another one of these, and Joe is trying really hard to be positive. Recorded October 2020.

This episode was recorded in December 2019. So I'm a little behind. On the plus side, absolutely no pandemic chat. We're talking about the Franz Ferdinand/Sparks collaboration that absolutely did work. Please enjoy this chat.

Finally! Episode 20! Recorded last December at Wetherby services in the pissing rain, we chat about Italian metallers Destrage and how fab they are. Sorry it's been so long, it'll hopefully not be ten months until the next one. Love you all, thanks for picking us up here if you have!

Finally we're back with, frankly, an unlistenable car recording from December last year. Hopefully we'll do more soon but there's a couple to go out first. We've missed you all.

Another one? Christ! Here, we talk about sad Frencher Soko and her sadness. Lord, she's sad. Also, Joe shit himself in the middle of the recording. See if you can spot the seamless edit.

Hello! It's another one! We're still going! This time we're talking about Clutch, whose riffs will kick you in the guts so hard you'll see God. Which I think is what they're after. I don't know. I'm not their dad. Plus some solid up-top-waffle, featuring a Grange Hill/Rage Against The Machine mash-up which I'm almost certain nobody will agree with me on. Enjoy!

The landmark EPISODE 17! We made it guys. Thanks to all three of you for listening.  In this one we're on about Scottish pop-with-gutsers Vukovi. It's mostly positive from Pete, and Joe is a bit surprised.  Please enjoy everyone, love you xx

Sorry everyone. It's been a bloody age. In this episode we're chatting about Japanese nutters Melt Banana and their album Cell-Scape. Joe has thoughts. Pete has thoughts. You might have thoughts (to be honest I edited this a while ago and I can't remember the craic). But please listen and enjoy, and we'll speak again soon!

I edited this ages ago and I'm shit. Soz. This is our first "live special", in as much as we are reviewing a live gig, specifically steampunk-punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, supported by Louise Distras. They're great, and we decide as much here. Please enjoy.

It's been ages, sorry. But we're chatting here about another Aussie band, Jackson Jackson, and I hope it's been worth it. This album is an absolute belter, and regardless of what we say you should listen to it and so should your friends and family. I'll try not to leave it so long next time, thank you for your time. Contact us @tastesfunnypod or @joemclachlan on Twitter or @minimumeffortjoe on Instagram

Hello! It's episode 14 of the increasingly irregular Taste's Funny podcast. This time, we're waffling about the wonderfully wankily named "Flying Microtonal Banana" by Australian nerd rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It's really hard to talk positively and be interesting at the same time, so this one is long and gushy. Hopefully if you're still listening this far in, you're used to that.

TW, sexual abuse, racially charged language. Back once again, this time with The Stranglers incredible "No More Heroes". Pete is concerned about a lot of the lyrical content, but it's so damned groovy it's hard to really care. I edited this ages ago and I can't really remember what else we talked about, so here it is. Please enjoy. Lots of love, Joe

We're finally back! Sorry you three, it's taken me ages to get round to editing this one. I blame Christmas, or Brexit, probably. This episode we're mostly talking bollocks because it's been a while. You might enjoy it but there's a lot of waffle. In between the waffle, though, we talk a lot about US Doom Metallers YOB, and their 7th album "Clearing The Path To Ascend". We had a lot of fun during this chat, hope you guys enjoy it too. You can now follow us on Twitter @tastesfunnypod (which I forget to use), me personally @joemclachlan (for comics and drawings and the like), or me on Instagram @joe_mclachlan_minimum_effort (my dad was on Instagram before I was, so I'm really cool). Or join the Facebook group, Taste's Funny Podcast, which I am constantly forgetting to update. Pete doesn't use social media, which is why he is lonely.

Some Christmas episodes don't mention Christmas at all because the release date is purely a coincidence. But here it is, Merry Christmas and everybody (Joe and Pete) is talking about Shrag's eponymous first album.  The usual bullshit involved where we convinced ouselves we know about how music works. Enjoy, rate, subscribe, whatever. Ta.

It's episode ten! And it's a bumper one! We chopped the intro off this to make it a bit shorter and it's still an hour and twenty, but a large chunk of that is Joe irrhythmically quoting rap lyrics. It gets a bit political despite neither party knowing what the bollocks they're on about. Joe also does a pantomime rap near the end and, for some reason, didn't cut it. Enjoy! (P.S. There's a bit where Joe says something is in 6/8. It isn't.)

This episode is a little bonus I'm chucking out there because we're late. It was meant to be the introduction to our chat about Run The Jewels 3 by Run The Jewels. It went on for ages and we had other stuff on our agenda. I don't know if this is interesting but it's undeniably here.

Hello Funny Taste Fans! It's Episode 8, the one where we discuss Irish punks Chewing on Tinfoil's “Marrowbone Lane”. Dogs, Catholicism, crack and a variety of other ramblings. Thanks for sticking with us this far, unless you haven't in which case up yours.

Lucky Episode 7 of the Taste's Funny Podcast is attached to these words. In this episode we chat about French disco pop act Yelle and their apparent love of horses. Joe can't speak French and there's a ten minute period where Pete was left on his own (I've cut it, but see if you can spot where it was). We're now available on iTunes and Spotify, but I'm still trying to fix the RSS feed if that's how you listen. Please tell people you think might be interested in hearing us scream into the void.

In this (late, sorry) episode, Joe and Pete discuss the albums Shake, Shook, Shaken by French-Finnish duo The Dø and the much less catchy Anthropocene Extinction by San Diego deathgrinders Cattle Decapitation. Having already had this conversation once (on some unlistenable, corrupted files), it's a bit rambly, but hopefully no less informative than usual. Please feel free to share, like, subscribe, all that guff, and help us provide a much needed white middle-class voice in a sea of white middle-class voices.

Finally! (Not finally, we're doing more) The other half of episode four, or as it now wishes to be known, "Episode 5" of Taste's Funny. This time, Joe doesn't understand metal. We will discuss "that face they do", and "that voice they do", as well as instrumental choices, sea birds and a car park rating. Thanks again for listening. Share us with your mates, because a problem shared is a problem halved.

Episode 4 of Taste's Funny podcast, in which we discuss The Cribs 2006 album The New Fellas - a favourite of Joe's, but what will Pete think? (Spoiler - it's not super...)

Episode 3, in which Joe has prepared notes and surprised Pete with this recording session, all so that he gets to look like the clever one again. We also chat head-composing, Sexy Anne Frank and semen-stained mountains. Bonus drinking game: drink every time Joe says 'urgent'.

Episode 2 of the Taste's Funny Podcast, in which Pete has lots to say about Chumbawamba and Joe is woefully underprepared to discuss Future of the Left.

The first in a new monthly podcast series in which the hosts, Joe McLachlan and Pete McHugh, review a record from each other's collection. In this episode, Joe and Pete discuss their childhood music tastes and set each other their first listen.