Unsung Podcast
If there was a definitive discography of classic albums, what should be in it? Host Mark Fraser from The Curator Podcast, and titans of Glasgow music/co-hosts David Weaver from Detour and Chris Cusack from Bloc, discuss and dissect perceived classic albums to decide which albums would make this list. Then, after we've talked it to death, we turn it over to you to decide once and for all via a handy poll. Cast your vote on our Facebook page and let's celebrate unsung classics.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 434
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Common Existence by Thursday (Side A) w/ Sean Patrick Campbell (Damn Teeth, Thin Privilege) - 317
As a die-hard Thursday fan, this week's guest comes right out the gates in explaining why Thursday he'll always love. And as it turns out, they're quite an easy band to love due to their ethics and o…
FROM THE VAULT: The Nu Metal Mixtape
Just over 6 years ago we came up with an idea. Well, Chris did, to be precise. What if we do an episode where we each pick an album and then put them head to head, with the public deciding which one …
FROM THE VAULT: Episode 209 – The History of the Covermount CD
The covermount CD is certainly a relic from a bygone era. We actually have a bag full of them, all acquired through various means, none of them worth anything.
But when was the covermount CD, or tape…
Covermount Mixtape: Radio Kerrang! Vol. 6 (Side B) w/ Grant Donaldson (Moni Jitchell) - 316
With the exception of Soul Asylum and the Presidents of the USA, unless you were seriously tuned into Kerrang! and/or alternative music in the 90s there are very few bands you'll remember, let alone …
Covermount Mixtape: Radio Kerrang! Vol. 6 (Side A) w/ Grant Donaldson (Moni Jitchell) - 315
This week Grant Donaldson joins us to talk about this Kerrang! covermount CD that came out during the hey day of nu metal. Turns out Grant is quite unfamiliar with nu metal so this was a real fun epi…
FROM THE VAULT: Sound is a Pound Episode 1 - (Onka's Big Moka by Toploader)
Born from a fever dream, Mark had the idea to review records found in poundland. You used to be able to get some primo garbage for a quid. Sadly, you can no longer buy CDs in poundland but the memory…
The Jingle-Bangers and Adver-tunes Mixtape (Side B) - 314
We break down the usage of music in ads into four categories: best original ad jingles and songs, songs made famous by adverts, famous songs best appropriated, songs ruined by ads. We also hear from …
The Jingle-Bangers and Adver-tunes Mixtape (Side A) - 313
Given the sheer amount of work we've done lately on the pod, we thought we'd do something a little easy and do an episode on music in advertising. Except, it actually turned out to NOT be that easy b…
FROM THE VAULT: Episode 68 - Terrifyer by Pig Destroyer
We've been on a real run of pulling out shows from 2019 recently and it seems the trend is not gonna break this week. We decided that we'd double down on the heavy, dirty misery of Yacøpsæ and revisi…
Tanz, Grosny, Tanz by Yacøpsæ (Side B) with Joe McGlynn from Man Must Die, Go Down Fighting and the Shit You May Not Have Seen Podcast - 312
It's time to get really grindy and real with the band's more recent material, which is very fast, brutal and dark. It's a bracing but also fun. This band have a lot of songs but it's all quite short,…
Tanz, Grosny, Tanz by Yacøpsæ (Side A) with Joe McGlynn from Man Must Die, Go Down Fighting and the Shit You May Not Have Seen Podcast - 311
There's a fair chance you haven't heard of Yacøpsæ before unless you're very much in tune with DIY grind/powerviolence. One of the things we started this podcast to do was to shine a light on great b…
FROM THE VAULT: Episode 90 - Shaking the Habitual by The Knife
We're throwing it back to Sept 2019 on this episode, as Chris talks about an album he adores - Shaking the Habitual by The Knife. This was the band/act that Karin was in before they did Fever Ray and…
Radical Romantics by Fever Ray (Side A) - 309
When we suggested doing Fever Ray after our episode on The Knife's Shaking the Habitual back in Sept 2019, this album didn't even exist. Indeed, Radical Romantics now takes the title of the most rece…
Radical Romantics by Fever Ray (Side B) - 310
And to wrap up our two episodes on Fever Ray we talk about Plunge before Chris goes deep on why their new album, Radical Romantics, is the best thing they've yet done.
FROM THE VAULT: Episode 140 - The Ugly Organ by Cursive
The pandemic was still stalking the world when we recorded this episode, so you'll have to bear with the sound quality. It's decent, mind, but recorded remotely. Anyway, this was, until recently, our…
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side C) - 308
THE CONCLUSION. Kyle's still alive. Barely. In side C we get to the point of this whole sorry triumvirate of episodes: to discuss Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. And the nexus. Of course.
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side B) - 307
Kyle's still with us in this episode, but he's dreaming about taking a bath. Which we kept him from. Sorry.
Sadly, there was work to do. And that work is to continue our chat about Bright Eyes' back …
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes w/ Kyle Wood from Lovers Turn to Monsters (Side A) - 306
This week we're joined by Kyle Wood, who creates music under the name of Lovers Turn to Monsters. He has chosen Digital Ash in a Digital Urn by Bright Eyes, claiming rather boldly, that it's amongst …
FROM THE VAULT: Episode 210 - The Covermount Mixtape: Radio Kerrang! Vol. 5
Calling in our good friend Crag from Australia, we chat about the covermount CD from a 1998 issue of Kerrang! The CD is called, obviously, Radio Kerrang! Vol. 5 and it has an intro from the Deftones …
The Unsung History of Turbofolk (Side D) - 305
On this episode we look at modern turbofolk. It's still hugely popular in some areas of the Balkans, in particular Croatia. So we dive into some recent examples from the genre and then take a wee pee…