• Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health

Season 1 Songs 6 7 8 - Elvis … God Wants a Word Show notes

• You tube song link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oBD2xLC4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k409Tpjj6Fs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKuCzaARmA8

Topics referenced or discussed:

• LP Vs. EP
• Tarkovsky
• Music Formats
• B-sides
• Playlists
• BBC Radio 2 - Tony Blackburn
• Station to Station - Heathen - Blackstar
• Portishead - Third
• Doppelgängers
• Elvis Costello & The Attractions
• Elvis Presley
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Dave Gahan - Gary Numan - Simon Le Bon
• Always Crashing in the Same Car
• Suicide ideation
• Blue Jean
• The Man Who Sold the World (Album)
• Class and Church / law and morality
• Consumerism
• Bowie the lyricist
• Day In Day Out
• Tin Machine
• Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd. / New York
• Toy (Album)
• Age and visibility
• Theme of isolation
• Damon Albarn
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (Charrington)
• Bottom (TV series)
• Bowie the singer
• Freddie Mercury, Annie Lennox
• Ryko Disc
• From the vaults

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Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil: The Cygnet Committee

• Trigger warning - Poor Mental Health

Season 1 Song 5 - Answer the phone Neil- Show notes

• You tube song link:

https://youtu.be/ZZ2VMPPyyck?si=IQUGHBKP1N3NUBYl

• Topics referenced or discussed:
• EMI
• Glastonbury 2000
• Asian Dub Foundation
• Twitter (Pre-Musk)
• Stewart Lee
• Naughty jokes
• Blackstar
• King Crimson (In The Court of the Crimson King)
• Inflation Calculator
• Mike Garson
• Carlos Alomar
• Earl Slick
• Mick Ronson
• E-Street Band (Roy Bittan)
• Rick Wakeman
• Training Vs. Untrained (musicians/actors)
• Daniel Day-Lewis
• Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
• Station to Station
• Lynda La Plante and Mick Jagger
• Gail Ann Dorsey
• Hippie culture
• Bowie’s politics
• Rock Against Racism
• Eric Clapton
• Bob Dylan
• Blank verse
• Bowie the singer
• Five Years
• The Pretty Things are Going to Hell
• Antifa
• Beckenham Arts Lab
• Winstanley
• The Diggers
• The Levellers (not the band!)
• MC-5 ‘Kick Out the Jams’
• Free State
• Somebody Up there Likes Me
• Big Brother
• Moses
• Socialism and Anarchism
• Generational tension
• 9/11 - War on Terror - Invasion of Iraq
• 1980s
• Let’s Dance
• Anthony Newlay
• Brian Eno - Roxy Music (and Social Democracy)
• Feminism in hippe culture

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Season 1 Songs 3 & 4 - Odes to Hermione - Show notes

**Trigger warnings for content (poor mental health)

• Link to the song version we listened to -

https://youtu.be/Xw1mmqMD9j0?si=7iolOYVMQzf0OuL4

https://youtu.be/UMU261WsLlc?si=uSwPt2vSysEfC8hB

• Topics referenced or discussed:
• Davey Jones & The Monkees, band & TV legends
• Tom Jones, singer
• Jim Bowie - The Bowie Knife
• Song Of Norway, Operetta
• A Reality Tour, Bowie
• Where are We Now? The Next Day, Bowie
• Tony Oursler, artist
• Breaking up (‘…is so very hard to do.’)
• Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach ‘Painted From Memory’ (‘This House is Empty Now’)
• Beak-up albums (Bob Dylan ‘Blood on the Tracks’, Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’, Beck ‘Sea Change’, Carol King ‘Tapestry’, Lorde ‘Melodrama’)
• Angela Barnett (Bowie) ‘Be My Wife’ (Low)
• John Cage, artist
• Stereo, audio technique
• Neil Young, artist
• Gender stereotypes / sexism
• Hours (‘Thursday’s Child,’ ‘Something in the Air,’ ‘Survive’)
• Artifice Vs. Authenticity
• I’m Not Quite (Demo)
• David Bowie, The Actor
• Stanislavsky - emotional memory
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Philip Jeffries)
• Labyrinth, film
• Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence
• Night and Fog in Japan, film
• Tom Conti, actor
• The Hunger, film
• “Heroes”, Bowie
• Blackout, Bowie
• Word on a Wing, Bowie
• Space Oddity, Bowie
• Love and romance
• Iman, wife
• Heroin phase
• Polyamory, multi-partner relationship
• Bisexuality, sexual orientation
• Gender fluidity, unfixed gender expression
• Veronica Lake and Lauren Bacall, actresses
• Susan Sarandon, Tina Turner, Melissa Hurley, Romy Haag, romantic partners
• Berlin, capital city
• Mick Jagger, artist
• Melody Maker, music publication
• Norwegian Wood, song
• Tin Machine, band
• Les Dawson, comedian
• When I Live My Dream, song
• Suede (Animal Nitrate, Metal Mickey, The Drowners), bands
• Hunky Dory (Fill My Heart, Kooks), albums
• The Man Who Sold the World (The Supermen), song
• Time Will Crawl, song
• Diamond Dogs, Bowie
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath

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