“You made me listen..to this?”

🎧🎬 2’S COMPANY, BUT 3’S A CROWD… EH?! 😂Well, not on this occasion!‘YOU MADE ME LISTEN TO THIS?’ IS BACK FOR SEASON 2… AND WE’RE KICKING THINGS OFF WITH A BANG! 🎉This time, Mike and Richard were joined by fellow music lover and part-time DJ, the one and only Mike Kearney! 🎶And what a mix of albums we had to get our teeth into!🎵 The Fall
🎵 Duran Duran
🎵 Temple of the Dog
🎵 Olivia Dean
🎵 Siouxsie and the Banshees
🎵 Jim Moray
🎵 CatatoniaThree people, three different perspectives, and plenty of opinions! 🤔😂From straight-to-the-point comments and laugh-out-loud moments to agreements, confusion, nostalgia and some genuine love for the music… this episode had a little bit of EVERYTHING!Having a third voice around the table certainly gave us a different angle, some fresh insight and, of course, the occasional difference of opinion! 😉Because that’s what music is all about, isn’t it? We don’t all have to agree, we just have to enjoy the conversation!And what better way to launch SEASON 2 than with a brilliant guest, a cracking selection of albums and three music lovers sharing their honest thoughts?

🎧 10 EPISODES… SEASON 1 COMPLETE! 🎧With 10 episodes recorded for our first season of “You Made Me Listen..To This?”, Mike and I got together to reflect on what we’ve been through over the past 20 or so weeks.Not only have we been reconnecting a long-standing friendship, but we’ve also been educating, listening, loving, disagreeing, surprising ourselves, laughing, agreeing, getting nostalgic, learning… and, tbh, just absolutely LOVING listening to albums that we’ve given each other — plus quite a few that YOU, ‘our musical friends’ have thrown at our poor ears to endure! 😂So we thought, what better way to finish Season 1 than to choose our Top 5 albums and Top 5 individual tracks from everything we’ve listened to?And here they are… in the order WE rated them! 👀We’ve called this special episode:“My Top 5 Is Better Than Yours… No It’s Not… Yes It Is!” 😂Because, quite frankly, that pretty much sums up Mike and Rich — and no doubt sums up YOUR opinions of the choices we’ve made too!So… whose Top 5 do you agree with?And more importantly…WHO GOT IT WRONG? 😜🎶Season 1 has been an absolute blast. ❤️Now sit back, turn it up and join us for our very own musical argument! 🎧🍻

🎉 OUR TENTH EPISODE…AND WHAT A WAY TO CELEBRATE! 🎉Albums by Deacon Blue, Seal, Robyn Hitchcock, Takipnik, Alannah Myles, Shed Seven, The White Stripes and Longpigs were thrown at Mike and Rich to listen to, review and comment on.And what a selection it was!A wonderful mixture of emotions, opinions and disagreements between Mike and Rich…exactly what you’ve come to expect! 😂And, to make our 10th episode worthy of a celebration, there’s one album we BOTH agreed is an absolute cracker! 🔥But which one?You’ll have to listen to “You Made Me..Listen To This?” to find out! 🎧🎶10 episodes down…plenty more albums to go! 🍻

Hi mate,I’ve called the episode Albums from Prince, Richard Thompson, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Duran Duran, The Golden Leaves, Editors and Michael Jackson gave Mike and I plenty to chat about… and believe me, we didn’t hold back! 😂Is Michael Jackson’s Bad actually better than Thriller?Duran Duran making “serious” music? 🤔The connection between the Editors album and The Terminator… really?! 😂And The Golden Leaves… never heard of them before, but would Mike and I ever listen to them again?These were just SOME of the questions, opinions, disagreements and surprises we got into.And my word… what an hour and 15 minutes it was! 🎶🎙️If you enjoy hearing two mates listen, discuss, disagree, agree and occasionally educate each other about music, give it a listen.And remember… YOU choose the albums. So send us your recommendations — any genre, any decade, anything goes!

Albums by Queens of the Stone Age, The Power Station, Chris Rea, RJ & the Painful Memories, Fleet Foxes, Sex Pistols, The Imagined Village and Ryan Adams were scrutinised, listened to, reviewed, disagreed over, loved, enjoyed… and, in a few cases, pleasantly surprised by Mike and Richard!This was one of those episodes where we both felt we could have carried on talking for hours! 😂But which one of us had NEVER heard the Sex Pistols album before? 😲Which one of us was really impressed by an album that resonated with his feelings at a particular time?And which one of us described an album as:“A collection of guitar-driven, fast rock, with a bass that reminded me a bit of The Stray Cats…” 🎸Well… the answers to all of the above — and a whole lot more — are waiting for you in what we think is a rather fine episode of You Made Me Listen To This!🎧 Have a listen, tell us what you think, and most importantly…Did you agree with our reviews?