The Epic Finale to the unexpected miniseries in which Vince, Neil, Jeremy, and Wayne discuss Band Aid, USA For Africa, and Live Aid in way more detail than is necessary. From rating Phil Collins to re-enacting a Duran Duran intervi...

Whilst Live Aid Wembley was giving us Sting on a lute, over the pond in Philadelphia, a stoned Ozzy Osbourne was belting out Paranoid with Black Sabbath. And things just get better...

It's our 50th Episode!In this bumper-length special episode, we go act-by-act, hour-by-hour through the Live Aid Wembley performance from the summer of 1985, and we break out into spontaneous terrible Sean Connery impressions.We...

In this jumbo-sized episode, we mop up Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? by taking a look at who wasn't on the recording, and we come up with a few conspiracy theories that probably don't touch reality at any point.Then we feed US...

In the first part of our multi-episode deep dive into Band Aid/USA For Africa/Live Aid Wembley & Philadelphia, we head back to the winter of 1984 and look at Bob Geldolf's & Midge Ure's passionate response to the Ethiopan famine, the ch...

We conclude our mini series on photographic album covers with a look at controversial album covers. We discuss Grunge babies and flannel shirts, heroin and capitalism, David Bowie's testicles, and those Scandinavian black metal idiots who burne...

Album covers are great, and so varied, and so integral to the way we used to experience music. The photo on the album cover of Rumours by Fleetwood depicts beautiful Californian Stevie Nicks in her classic and iconic Rhiannon persona, ...

This time round, as Neil  frantically works the bellows and turns all the dials on the Overrated Machine to 11, and Wayne's lapses of memory begin to become a very real problem, and Vince exhausts all his patience and can't even tell 12 in...

In the second and final part of our look back at MTV and the music video revolution, Neil enthuses about George Michael's phenomenal success as a respected singer-songwriter;  Wayne admits he completely out of his old white dude depth when...

MTV was launched in August 1981, and formed the music TV backdrop of our generation. But was it overrated? How much of it can we remember? What were the best videos? And those hot ladies with guitars in that Robert Palmer video - where are they...

Vince, Neil and Wayne continue their journey through the mosh pits and gritty urban streets of punk rock from San Francisco to London as punk mutates. Wayne was not wearing pants when this was recorded. Neil lost his audio on the Dead Kennedys ...

Vince, Neil and Wayne gob at the Establishment, stick two fingers up at the future and instead decide to get pissed and destroy. In Part 1 we look at the birth of punk across the pond with the Ramones, then find punk in rude health in London wi...

Vince and Neil take a second tour of duty and head into the heart of darkness, populated by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Hardcastle, Ronald Reagan, Spitting Image, Sylvester Stallone and Wham!  Will they survive? And what sort of reception will...

Vince and Neil go deep in the shit and ponder all things Vietnam War in the first of two episodes looking at the conflict and its impact. This episode: Martha and the Vandellas and Jimmy Cliff, Action Man, an unwinnable war, TV news, shady gove...

In the second and sexiest and most thrilling part of our mission to look at all things 007, Secret Agents Barrett (shaken) and Stadon (not stirred) fall out of aircraft without parachutes, flirt with MILF secretaries and fight insane criminal m...

With Jeremy on a secret mission for M, agents Barrett and Stadon don immaculately tailored tuxedos, wrestle with giant steel-toothed psychopathic henchmen, and then, with a raised eyebrow and a deadpan quip, they bed the world's sexiest women.<...

Is I Feel Fine Overrated?(No!)As an offshoot of our main show, we discuss a Beatles track and Vince fills in the gaps, reading from Ian MacDonald's unsurpassed 'Revolution in The Head - The Beatles' Records and The Sixties'....

Happy New Year!A week later than planned, here's the 4th - but by no means least - of our bonus festive episodes!Neil. Silver Bells.  An explosive combination!

Happy New Year!A week later than planned, here's the 3rd bonus episode for the festive season.Vince and Jer braved the elements, irate neighbours and jobsworth law enforcement officers to record on the roof of the Overrated Stud...

Happy New Year!A week later than planned, here's the second of four festive bonus episodes!Vince talks about The Beatles Get Back Part 2

Happy New Year!A week later than planned, here's the first of four festive season bonus episodes!Jeremy talks about The Beatles Get Back Part 1

Season 2, Episode 6 - Is Christmas Overrated? (20th December 2021)Merry Christmas!In our bumper festive show, we're joined again by Neil (wearing a horrible jumper) as we rather blasphemously ask: Is Christmas Overrated?<...

Season 2, Episode 5a - 'Long, Long, Long' by The Beatles (5th November 2021)As an offshoot of our main show, we discuss a Beatles track and Vince fills in the gaps, reading from Ian MacDonald's unsurpassed 'Revolution in The Head...

Season 2, Halloween Bonus: Deciphering the Lyrics to 'Ghostbusters' (29th October 2021)Happy Halloween!  Bonus episode as a trick or treat - we fail miserably to get to grips with the meaning behind Ray Parker Jnr's incohere...

Season 2, Episode 5 - Is Goth Overrated? (October 20th 2021)Happy Halloween!We apply kohl eyeliner, paint our nails black and drink cider as we go Goth for the spooky season.We review and rate'...