Generation Mix

In this episode Joel and Neil listen to the music of Genesis and solo tracks from Phil Collins, Mike and the Mechanics and Peter Gabriel. Genesis aren't exactly a favourite of Neil - the greatest hits are OK and maybe an album or two. Peter Gabriel, however... Joel gets his usual revenge and it's.... fine! My YouTube channel: Pockenrop

It's the first of the occasional bonus series of Generation Mix: Role Reversal, where Joel gets to introduce Dad to an entire CD of one of his favourite artists. This time it's Demi Lovato. There are tracks from her entire career and, in Dad's opinion, something of a mixed bag. Dad get's his turn to do a revenge and picks a track from his favourite album of 2023. (replacement for p

A sharp left turn for this e[isode where we indulge, not in an artist nor theme, but in a whole genre of music - namely classical. Where else would Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, Joplin and John Finnemore(?) rub shoulders but in a podcast such as this. Joel has a revenge and it's totally in keeping with the whole podcast. Joel's Music GCSE really starts to show his musical understanding

Season 3 continues with an episode on Coldplay. This was... tricky. Neither Neil nor Joel enjoyed the music of Coldplay, so how did the CD come about? Well, they are a hugely successful band of the last 20 years and a friend made a suggested playlist, Neil made the CD and... well this was the result. Listening back was something of a trial but not without the occasional up moment -

Season 3 already (and only a month after the conclusion of season 2) and we turn our attention to the dance music artist Avicii. Avicii's real name was Tim Bergling and he was a Swedish musician and DJ. His songs involved vocal contributions from a wide range of artists from pop, rock and country. As you may know his story ends tragically in 2018 after 2 albums, a string of hits an

In this much delayed episode we turn our attention to the music of Dire Straits. It's a been a loooooooooong time coming and indeed we had recorded this much earlier but the sound was rubbish. We are so committed to quality listening here on Generation Mix that we didn't want to put out something that was hard to listen to due to the audio quality. A trawl through all 6 studio albu

Well it was bound to happen one day - we broke the hour barrier. Admittedly we have 25 different songs included in this episode (if you include the revenge) so there is a fair bit. As we trawl our way through The Smiths we end up referencing a certain CBBC television show several times - honestly if you've never seen it click the link and thank us later! Horrible Histories Charles

OK - it took longer than planned and we couldn't pull off the guest but we turn our attention to the greatest Heavy Metal band in the world - Iron Maiden. They've been going over 45 years since their formation in 1975, hitting the big time in 1980 and with a hiccup or two, are still going very strong now (latest album Senjustsu is not represented in this podcast as the CD compilati

What's this? A new Generation Mix episode just 2 weeks after the last one? We really are spoiling you. In this episode it's New York singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega under the spotlight. Tracks drawn from her entire 30+ year career from Marlene On The Wall through to Harper Lee. It's a great trawl through some excellent songcraft. Joel's revenge is extremely appropriate for this one.

A new episode of our podcast with a shorter interval than of late (just 6 weeks or so) and it's a solo Beatle episode with our focus on the Quiet Beatle - George Harrison. George's solo career really kicked off with All Things Must Pass and after a few lengthy hiatuses ended with the posthumous Brainwashed. We have picks from across his entire 30 year solo career, taking in possibl