We're headed way back in this episode to early in Kylie's career and discussing Let's Get To It. Her fourth album saw Kylie start to branch away from her signature SAW sound in the first of many glorious reinventions. There is much to enjoy and reminisce about, so join us and let us know your memories @trackbytrackuk & hellotrackbytrack@gmail.com
It's Glastonbury week, which means this time last year we were counting down the days until Blondie took to the Pyramid Stage for the first time in 24 years. But on this episode we're celebrating 10 deep cuts that didn't fill the setlist. Let us know your thoughts on the band and our choices on the socials @trackbytrackuk
On this week's episode we're joined by Will Gregory to discuss the debut album from his Moog Ensemble: Heat Ray. Will takes us track by track through the collection that tells the story of Archimedes' life, and of course there's some Goldfrapp chat too. Let us know what you think to the episode and the album on the socials @trackbytrackuk
It's almost time for Glastonbury which means it's almost been a year since Elton John's monumental headline show, performing to one the biggest (if not *the* biggest) crowds the festival has ever seen. To celebrate we're bringing you an updated version of our Too Low For Zero episode, originally released on Patreon last year to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Let us know your thoughts not the episode and the album @trackbytrackuk
We are celebrating The Killers debut album on this brand new episode, as we talk through 'Hot Fuss', the start of a long and successful career for the cream of Las Vegas. The hallmarks were all there from the start including two of their biggest songs to date. What are your memories and thoughts on the album? Let us know @trackbytrackuk
On our second episode of Further Listening that we're sharing across all podcasting platforms, we're delving deeper and deeper into the Queen of Pop's back catalogue. Following her record breaking Celebration tour finale, we're discussing ten tracks that aren't greatest hits, but are of course great pop creations. Let us know your thoughts on the socials @trackbytrackuk
So far we've been track by track through three Erasure albums - The Neon, Chorus and Snow Globe, as well as the ABBA-Esque EP - so we know we've got a lot of catching up to do. This week we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of I Say I Say I Say - Andy Bell and Vince Clarke's sixth studio album, following the release of their first greatest hits collection. With Martyn Ware on board as producer, the pair delivered yet another synth pop stunner, including the huge single Always. Let us know your thoughts on the socials @trackbytrackuk
This week we're back with one of our favourite girl groups - Girls Aloud. This time we're talking about their fourth studio album from 2007 'Tangled Up'. As ever we celebrate the five princesses of pop and enjoy some deeper dives into the music scene of the time which will hopefully educate, entertain and stir up some old musical memories from seventeen (!) years ago.
In this brand new episode, we're celebrating 30 years since the release of this seminal Blur album. Join us as we travel back to the 90's and the rise of Britpop to see what this quartet of fresh faced Londoners did on their make or break third album, and why it still hits all the right notes three decades later.
Welcome to Further Listening, the series where we delve even deeper into the back catalogues of some of our favourite artists. We're kicking things off with the band who inspired the Track By Track podcast and the name of this series... It's Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe AKA Pet Shop Boys. This series was first released as a Patreon exclusive, however we're now sharing the episodes across all podcasting platforms AND we're bringing it bang up to date with some additional choices. Let us know your thoughts on the episode and our picks on the socials @trackbytrackuk - and if you haven't already please do leave us a rating and review.
We're back with our first episode of 2024! And this year we're doing things a little bit differently. Each month we're going to bring one updated episode previously released on Patreon, one updated episode from our Patreon exclusive series: Further Listening AND at least one brand new episode to all podcasting platforms. This week we're continuing the 50th anniversary celebrations of ABBA's Eurovision win by celebrating the album that started it all. Ring Ring was released a year before Eurovision, before ABBA were known as ABBA, but still features fan favourites and some real oddities. Do let us know what you think to the episode and the album, and if you haven't already please do leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening - it's great to be back!
Merry Christmas to all our lovely listeners wherever you are and whatever you are doing over the holidays. On a new episode, now available for all, we’re going through the soundtrack to the fabulously festive feature film ‘ Love Actually’ a Yule tide staple for us, expect film chat AND music chat for this seasonal special from us, a previous Patreon exclusive. 🎁 Oh, one more thing - would you like it gift wrapped? 🐈
Here we go...our Top 30 songs of 2023. Join us for our epic countdown of favourites in the end of year chart music fans and industry insiders have been waiting for What are you expecting to hear in our list this year?
Join us as we round out the year counting down our top ten albums of 2023. Head over to Patreon and vote for which of these albums you would like us to go through track by track before the end of the year!
Time for another episode from the Patreon vaults, and this one celebrates one of our favourite seconds albums ever! It's synth-pop pioneers a-ha with their moody sophomore collection, Scoundrel Days.
On this episode from the Patreon vaults we're re-rewinding back a couple of years to September 2021, when we got our overalls on and entered the garage scene to celebrate Artful Dodger's hit-filled album, It's All About The Stragglers. Let us know your thoughts on the album and the episode, and to get monthly brand new episodes years before they're available on all podcast platforms (as well as exclusive series, episode voting and much more) join us and support Track By Track on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trackbytrackuk
Surprise! We couldn't not mark the occasion... Pet Shop Boys' long out-of-print mini album Relentless - originally released as part of a special edition of 1993's Very - has been rereleased, and made available on streaming services for the first time. The collection is made up of six experimental lengthy numbers, with a much heavier focus on dance music, and on this episode we're going through them track by track. Let us know your thoughts on the socials @trackbytrackuk
We're continuing our look back over the last half a decade of Track By Track to celebrate 250 album episodes, and so much more. Let us know your thoughts and memories on the socials @trackbytrackuk
It's our fifth birthday, and true to form we're celebrating Pet Shop Boys style. We haven't got many left in the bank now so we hope you enjoy our penultimate PSB album episode, and it's a super sized one at that! This one is celebrating the joy of 'Fundamental'. If that isn't enough this is also our 250th album episode, what a double bubble milestone. Let us know your thoughts and memories and top tracks @trackbytrackuk
To celebrate five years of Track By Track, and the release of our 250th episode, we're looking back over some of our greatest bits. Let us know yours @trackbytrackuk