Comedians Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd listen to the greatest albums of all time in order to compile a playlist of the best music ever. Recorded in Monkey Barrel Comedy studios in Edinburgh. Featuring such beloved segments as Secret Posho and Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!
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Bo Diddley transmuted the juba hambone beat into rock ‘n’ roll, inspired by blues legends like Howlin Wolf and then ruthlessly plagiarised and whitewashed by everybody from Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley…
Kicked out of his childhood home by his religious father for the hideous crime of listening to Jackie Wilson, Al Green was hustling in a bordello when he was discovered by the bandleader Willie Mitch…
Her powerful cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” made her a global superstar, but when Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of The Pope during a musical performance on Saturday Night Live as a stat…
Born in a trailer park in rural Alabama, Jason Isbell was taught to play music by his family, then went on to become a guitarist and songwriter for the Southern rock band known as the Drive-By Trucke…
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor was a teenager when she released “Royals” as a single under the stagename Lorde. But where the Kiwi electro-popstar’s first album had a swaggering half-cut gait, her …
After collaborating with Kanye West on his cold electro-pop record 808s & Heartbreak, Kid Cudi followed up his megahit debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi with this conceptual arena-rap sad-stoner magnum …
2006 was a bad year for Justin Vernon. His band broke up, his girlfriend left him, and he came down with a serious bout of mononucleosis hepatitis - a severe form of herpes that leaves your lungs inf…
This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail continue their break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer the rest of the listener-submitted quest…
This week on Enjoy An Album, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd and Liam Withnail take a break from listening to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time to answer a smorgasbord of listener-submitted questions. F…
When Bob Marley died in 1981, Island Records wanted to repeat the success they found with the reggae star by marketing King Sunny Ade as ‘The African Bob Marley’. It didn’t really work, but the attem…
In 1964, Brian Wilson married a sixteen-year-old and smoked exactly one (1) marijuana cigarette before having a mental breakdown and deciding that the life of a rock star on-tour wasn’t for him - he …
Maxwell disappeared from the public eye in late 2001, seemingly disillusioned with the world after both the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the resignation of William Hague, the then-leader o…