The Cacophony Sessions

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The Cacophony Sessions Podcast returns to dive deep into our favourite records of 2024! Featuring Dan Whitell's returning ragtag band of cohorts Jim, Martyn and Tom this year, please enjoy this year's definitive channel list from a year that some were more enthusiastic about than others.

All albums were scored out of ten to one decimal point, and naturally the scores presented are the collective scores from all of us combined. 

With deliciously juxtaposed snacks, accidental Partridge galore, terrifying forgotten adverts and another round of Does It Slap, as well as some strong cardigan game - the Cac is back, baby.

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Late as ever (it's still February... just) following a technological catastrophe The Cacophony Sessions presents the season four finale, and the closing episode of the regular podcast.

Join Dan Whitell and his regular band of bastards Alex, Martyn, Tom and Jim as we finally deliver our top ten albums of 2023!

Featuring the biggest Does It Slap ever, a lovely story about corner shops and a heavy dose of swearing; the final regular episode is one of our strongest. We will continue the chaos on the YouTube channel, as old favourite episodes like The Cacophony Sessions Goes Pop will be shortened and sharpened to deliver more regular content.

AOTY will be back for 2024 but in the mean time please follow us on social media, keep your eyes on www.cacophonysessions.com for the latest video drops and consider subscribing to the Patreon!

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Thank you for your support and as always, Stay Funky.
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The Cacophony Sessions are back with their thoughts on greatest guitar solos of all time. Joining Dan Whitell on this episode are Alex, Tom and Martyn; each with two pics for a discussion on what makes a guitar solo work - and what doesn't. The playlist containing all of our picks (including Dan B's and Jim's in spite of their absence from this episode) can be found on Apple Music and Spotify:

https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/shredders-revenge-or-just-axin-questions/pl.u-xlyNBoltkJxKX8
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Vg5tA1SbXXB6HWNImQL7L

In this episode we spend a good thirty minutes or so going through some of the comments we've had on the subject as well, meaning that we cover a lot of different songs in this one. Also discover the two reasons Tom hates guitar solos (feat. science), Alex's latest band name, Baphomet's penchant for gran turismo, carnival metal and one of us channels our inner Dennis Reynolds.

From this point on, all of our episodes will be available for free in full on both audio platforms and the YouTube channel. If you are interested in supporting our Patreon we will now be making monthly Q&A videos so sign up to have your questions answered by a member of the Cacophony Sessions team! As always, make sure you follow us on social media, and please like and subscribe to keep this Cac train rolling.

Thanks for watching, see you in December for our overrated episode!

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We wind the clock back 20 years on this episode of The Cacophony Sessions as Dan Whitell runs down the Top 15 Songs of 2003 with contributions from Martyn, Jim, Alex and Tom. 15 picks each, scored out of ten - some using the IGN scoring system and others…not doing that. This episode ranks the top 15, although all 75 songs can be found in alphabetical order on our Apple Music playlist and our Spotify playlist.

A couple of Undeniable Bangers and tangents ahoy - LET’S FIND OUT which band may have suffered with a head lice problem, which indie rock band was banned from the Fry household, which one of us got married recently and we introduce a banger of a new gameshow - What Has Martyn Been Up To? Answers on a postcard, please.
 
As you may have seen, we have a new website - www.cacophonysessions.com. You can find all of our episodes, all our video content including Dan’s Slammin’ Seven series and our The Cacophony Sessions Meets… interview series. There will also be another episode of CAC News coming in the near future. The first half of this episode is available on YouTube. If you wish to see the whole thing, it is available by joining the Funkatier of our Patreon for £5 a month. All proceeds will be reflected in production values! Of course if money is tight, which we know it is, all of the audio will always be uploaded to all podcast platforms.

Let us know your thoughts and make sure to leave us a like or comment where possible. We’ll see you in the next one, when we’ll be covering our favourite guitar solos in “Shredder’s Revenger, or: Just Axin’ Questions.”

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The second part of The Cacophony Sessions'  discussion of all 25 Bond themes continues in 'You Only Bang Twice', in which Dan Whitell, Tom, Dan B and Alex critique the Bond themes of the 1980s to the present. If you missed the first part, you can listen to the audio or watch the video to catch up on the scores so far. A playlist of all the themes in chronological order can be found on Apple Music (curated by Dan) and Spotify.

As this is a bonus episode, it's not quite as long as some of our previous episodes so we've made the entire thing available over on the YouTube channel for free this month! That doesn't mean we'll be getting straight to the point though - everyone ends up having a go on Does It Slap and we end up covering bands that would suck at Bond themes, a few acts that should have been given the chance and there are way too many Limp Bizkit references. Dan throws some Prince mentions out there for good measure and tries his hand at his worst chart rundown voice.

We'll be moving away from Bond in August and will be presenting the Top 15 Songs of 2003 next so make sure you keep yourself notified by subscribing to our YouTube channel and reading our blog, where you can find a summary of all our scoring as well as links to other articles and further information about us. As mentioned we're on Instagram now too, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Patreon. If you can't give £5 a month to support us (and see every episode just as you can with this one), please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or give us a like or even a comment on any of our various social media accounts.

Don't forget you can check out our exclusive interview with The Scribes and we'll have a Wham Slammin' Seven and a brand new CAC News coming at your senses in the next couple of weeks too!

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