Podcast: Seaside Pod Review

Kev and Randy work their way through the Queen catalogue, one (random) song at a time.

Don’t Lose Your Head

In days of yore (aka medieval Britain), merchants would travel from hamlet to hamlet negotiating with the various Lords, through their Stewards and Bailiffs, in order to provide chain mail, iron braces and cladding for drawbridges, and reinforcements for battlements. Often, the merchant would barter for food, tools, or other supplies. The most famous of…

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Leaving Home Ain’t Easy

Randy simply will not get over the title of this album. He just can’t deal with the fact that an album called “Jazz” features no jazz. There’s plenty of rock n roll, a wee bit of vaudeville, there’s some proto-disco, and a spicy eastern flavour to the title track. But what are we getting from…

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It’s a Beautiful Day

When is a song not a song? When is a dog not a dog? When is a hot dog not a hot dog? When is a Champion a Champion? And when is dust just a big old bunch of dead skin, fly legs, sand, grit, and fragments of belly button lint? I won’t lie to…

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Crazy Little Thing Called Love

El episodio de esta semana está patrocinado por «Upside Down Cow Tacos». Randy y la Sra. Cardinal —que es lo que pone ahora en su pasaporte, aunque parezca increíble— están en Ciudad de México disfrutando de unas merecidas vacaciones. Kev, sin embargo, sigue en Saskatoon porque alguien tiene que cuidar el fuerte. Hablamos de Queen…

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Holy F*** It’s a Music Podcaster!

Back in May of 2020, Randy and Kev took their first baby steps into the podcasting world. They had no goddamn clue what they were doing and only one of them had a decent mic! We figured the best way to start a podcast would be to see if we were any good at interviews,…

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Play the Game

There once was a man in Vancouver Whose appendage got stuck in the hoover He said, with a shout, “Get it out, get it out!!!” Before trying the Heimlich maneuver! Randy’s away, Kev’s home, and we’re covering the opening track, “Play the Game”, from 1980’s triumphant masterpiece, The Game. Also, Obi Wan Kenobi? Weird! If…

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White Queen (As It Began)

Duke of Aquitaine, Tierce de Picardie was an eighteenth century French nobleman who’s primary economic interest was excavating gold from the deep reserves that lay under the fields of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in the pagus of Limousin. In his mid forties, he relinquished his titles and lands in order to conscript into the French army in order…

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