Just Kidding, Lars

About this Episode

Two listener questions take us an entire episode to answer... first, we compare Shane MacGowan of the Pogues to Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. Then follows a ridiculously long discussion of our top five(ish) desert island discs.

References for this episode

• Leaving of Liverpool - The Dubliners — Ronnie Drew on lead vocals
• The Town I Loved So Well (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke Kelly on lead vocals
• Dirty Old Town (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke Kelly on lead vocals
• Rocky Road to Dublin (Live) - The Dubliners — Luke accidentally repeats the 'Mullingar' verse and reacts humourously
• Monto (Live) - The Dubliners
• Dirty Old Town - Christy Moore and Shane MacGowan
• Huey Lewis performs with Thin Lizzy
• Interview with Chris Hayes of Huey Lewis & the News — Suburban Underground
• New Religion - Duran Duran

Patrick's Top 5 Desert Island Discs

1. Life Live - Thin Lizzy
2. Gold: Greatest Hits - Abba
3. Live After Death - Iron Maiden
4. Reign in Blood - Slayer
5. Elvis 75 - Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley (4 Disc Box Set)

Chad's Top 5 Desert Island Discs

1. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - David Bowie
2. Peter Gabriel (Scratch) - Peter Gabriel
3. Fear of Music - Talking Heads
4. The White Album - The Beatles
5. ???

More References

• Cold Sweat (Live) - Thin Lizzy
• Human Strain - Slayer
• George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr talk about Elvis's later period (from the Beatles Anthology)
• Bruce Dickinson and his opinion(s) on synthesizers in heavy metal
• The Rocker - Thin Lizzy (Eric Bell guitar solo)
• Still in Love With You - Thin Lizzy (John Sykes guitar solo)
• My Sharona - The Knack (Berton Averre guitar solo)
• Life During Wartime - Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads (Jerry Harrison keyboard solo)
• Girlfriend is Better - Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads (original 1984 theatrical mix) (Jerry Harrison keyboard solo)

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