Mick and the PhatMan Talking Music
By Mick and the Phatman
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by Mick and the Phatman
Category: Music Commentary
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 1
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 114
Description
Join Mick and Jeff as they talk about artists, albums and music genres with passion that comes from personal connection. They’ve seen artists in concert at venues that don’t even exist today, bought albums when they were released on vinyl and, in some cases, met the artists.
Sometimes they love the artist or music they're talking about. Sometimes they don’t. But, without fail, you'll always hear something you didn’t know.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
Misused Songs
|
Sep 13, 2026 |
|
2026 Golden Jubilee Pt 2 - Great Albums Turning 50
|
Aug 09, 2026 |
|
2026 Golden Jubilee - Great Albums Turning 50
|
Jul 26, 2026 |
|
Kate Bush (with a bit of The Birthday Party thrown in!)
|
Jul 05, 2026 |
|
Early hits - Anthem or albatross? Radiohead & others
|
May 17, 2026 |
|
What does outrageous look and sound like? The Skyhooks episode.
|
May 03, 2026 |
|
Split Enz – One of Australia's favourite New Zealand bands
|
Apr 22, 2026 |
|
Great Guest Appearances - Live and recorded!
|
Apr 04, 2026 |
|
One Album Wonders
|
Mar 21, 2026 |
|
Linda Ronstadt - A 70s' Rock Goddess
|
Mar 07, 2026 |
|
The Changing Role of Soundtracks
|
Feb 21, 2026 |
|
Great double albums of the 80’s
|
Feb 08, 2026 |
|
Supergroups - who and what they are
|
Jan 25, 2026 |
|
Oh No! Not Christmas music again!!
|
Dec 23, 2025 |
|
100 Episodes of facts and opinions!!
|
Dec 13, 2025 |
|
Stop Your Sobbin’ - The Pretenders
|
Sep 14, 2025 |
|
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
|
Aug 31, 2025 |
|
The Rise of the Double Album!
|
Aug 17, 2025 |
|
Deep Cuts we think you'll love
|
Jun 15, 2025 |
|
The Tall Poppy Syndrome
|
May 25, 2025 |
|
Warren Zevon – Finally inducted into the Hall of Fame!!
|
May 11, 2025 |
|
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Come Up and See My early music!
|
Apr 27, 2025 |
|
How we developed our musical tastes.
|
Apr 13, 2025 |
|
Legendary Women of Rock – Patti Smith & Marianne Faithfull
|
Mar 29, 2025 |
|
More of our Rob Younger interview (with better sound) (#2)
|
Mar 16, 2025 |
|
A conversation with Radio Birdman's Rob Younger
|
Mar 01, 2025 |
|
Who's brave enough to cover Bowie's "Heroes"?
|
Feb 08, 2025 |
|
Great Debut Albums
|
Jan 25, 2025 |
|
2024 - Wrapping up another year of great stories & music!
|
Dec 14, 2024 |
|
Creedence Clearwater Revival – what really happened?
|
Nov 30, 2024 |
|
Were the 80’s really that bad? (Hint: Not all of them)
|
Nov 16, 2024 |
|
Nick Lowe - What's so funny?
|
Nov 02, 2024 |
|
"Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)" - David Bowie's last great album
|
Oct 19, 2024 |
|
Albums we regret buying
|
Oct 07, 2024 |
|
Down the Rabbit Hole - Things we find on the Web
|
Sep 22, 2024 |
|
The strange ways some bands got their names
|
Sep 08, 2024 |
|
Bands who changed their sound mid-career
|
Jul 28, 2024 |
|
Nick Cave – From "Shivers" to 2024 solo piano & bass
|
Jun 30, 2024 |
|
Weird & Wonderful Collaborations
|
Jun 10, 2024 |
|
Jethro Tull - killer riffs and a flute player standing on one leg
|
May 21, 2024 |
|
Jarrah McCleary/Panama - how artists earn money today - live interview
|
May 05, 2024 |
|
Johnny Cash – A grand cornerstone of rock music
|
Apr 21, 2024 |
|
"Songs for Drella" - Lou Reed & John Cale's moving tribute to Andy Warhol
|
Apr 07, 2024 |
|
Outrageous Tour Demands – You Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
|
Mar 23, 2024 |
|
Husker Du, Sugar and Bob Mould
|
Mar 09, 2024 |
|
Brilliant albums poorly reviewed. How do critics get it so wrong?
|
Feb 24, 2024 |
|
Stars that threw it all away with dumb decisions
|
Feb 10, 2024 |
|
Rolling Stone's "250 Greatest Guitarists of all Time" (well, some of them anyway!)
|
Jan 27, 2024 |
|
2023 - A great year for great music (from other years!)
|
Dec 09, 2023 |
|
Great Protest Music of our Time
|
Nov 25, 2023 |
|
Mathew Sweet - the music behind Susanna Hoffs, Austin Powers and The Simpsons
|
Nov 11, 2023 |
|
REM - Another great band influenced by The Velvet Underground
|
Oct 24, 2023 |
|
Big hits that really weren't original!
|
Oct 09, 2023 |
|
A world without Leonard Cohen would be a much poorer place
|
Sep 25, 2023 |
|
How Michael Jackson's "Thriller" changed all the rules
|
Sep 03, 2023 |
|
Marianne Faithfull - Before and after "Broken English"
|
Aug 15, 2023 |
|
"Pampered Menial” - Pavlov’s Dog's stunning lost gem from 1975
|
Jul 30, 2023 |
|
What do Bowie, Bad Company, Rick Wakeman and BTO have in common?
|
Jul 11, 2023 |
|
Nico - An aural challenge well worth the effort
|
Jun 25, 2023 |
|
Lou Reed’s “New York” – A masterpiece in 14 tracks
|
Jun 11, 2023 |
|
The strange link between Vanilla Ice, Queen & David Bowie
|
May 28, 2023 |
|
Ed Kuepper - The Saints' founder, Laughing Clown, sometime Aint and Bad Seed
|
May 14, 2023 |
|
The best (and worst) shows we've ever seen
|
Apr 25, 2023 |
|
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – a sadly-missed phenomenon
|
Apr 10, 2023 |
|
The Police - still fresh, 40 years on
|
Mar 25, 2023 |
|
The Smiths - Manchester's finest!
|
Mar 12, 2023 |
|
What makes a band (or artist) "Over-rated"?
|
Feb 26, 2023 |
|
Ever Fallen in Love with Someone? Great love songs
|
Feb 12, 2023 |
|
Why didn't these songs get to #1?
|
Jan 29, 2023 |
|
Two seasons of great music commentary
|
Dec 16, 2022 |
|
Midnight Oil - Idealism and a red-hot live show
|
Dec 11, 2022 |
|
Joe Cocker - "I don't expect to live through this"
|
Nov 23, 2022 |
|
The Go Betweens - The importance of choosing great influences
|
Nov 16, 2022 |
|
Great music that somehow missed the charts!
|
Nov 01, 2022 |
|
Who deserves a place in our supergroup?
|
Oct 17, 2022 |
|
Genesis Redone
|
Jul 29, 2022 |
|
Peter Gabriel - No more masks
|
Jul 28, 2022 |
|
How GOOD is Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"?
|
Jul 24, 2022 |
|
Cyndi Lauper – The Girl Just Wants to Have Fun
|
Jul 05, 2022 |
|
The Things We've Lost
|
Jun 25, 2022 |
|
Alice Cooper - The Band and the Man
|
Jun 10, 2022 |
|
What Do Your Favourite Songs Really Mean?
|
May 25, 2022 |
|
Rock Feuds - The Stuff of Legends
|
Apr 30, 2022 |
|
Rock Music on Screen
|
Apr 22, 2022 |
|
What does a producer do, anyway?
|
Apr 08, 2022 |
|
The Greatest-Ever Australian Albums
|
Mar 24, 2022 |
|
Baby You Can Drive My Car
|
Mar 12, 2022 |
|
Songs about Australia
|
Feb 25, 2022 |
|
John Cale: I come from Wales, you can call me John
|
Feb 10, 2022 |
|
Never Mind the Originals, Here's the Covers
|
Jan 31, 2022 |
|
And so this is Christmas - Xmas Songs from your favourite artists
|
Dec 24, 2021 |
|
Mi-Sex, INXS and other stories - The Best of Aussie Pub Rock
|
Dec 13, 2021 |
|
What's YOUR favourite record cover?
|
Nov 26, 2021 |
|
The Sex Pistols: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
|
Nov 12, 2021 |
|
Our Favourite Albums
|
Oct 30, 2021 |
|
Rock Star Deaths - plane crashes and other stories
|
Oct 16, 2021 |
|
Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs of All Time - 2021
|
Sep 26, 2021 |
|
Brian Eno, Music's Renaissance Man
|
Sep 17, 2021 |
|
Songs about Heroin: The damage and the cost
|
Sep 03, 2021 |
|
And Then There Were Five: Genesis at their best
|
Aug 21, 2021 |
|
The Angels - Our favourite Aussie pub rock band
|
Aug 07, 2021 |
|
The COVID LockDown Episode
|
Jul 22, 2021 |
|
Warren Zevon - A downfall of his own making
|
Jul 07, 2021 |
|
Warren Zevon - "Please don't dance. These songs are kinda personal."
|
Jun 23, 2021 |
|
Crowded House - Do New Zealand bands like being called "Australian"?
|
Jun 09, 2021 |
|
Lou Reed: How can Jeff think “Berlin" is depressing?
|
May 27, 2021 |
|
Countdown: The show that shaped the 70s
|
May 14, 2021 |
|
The Velvet Underground and Nico
|
Apr 28, 2021 |
|
"Stranded" - The high point for Roxy Music?
|
Apr 12, 2021 |
|
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie's breakthrough album
|
Mar 28, 2021 |
|
Neil Young's "Rust Never Sleeps" - His best ever!
|
Mar 25, 2021 |
|
Nick Cave - his early days
|
Mar 14, 2021 |
|
Queen - Reproducing "Bohemian Rhapsody" live, before digital effects were invented
|
Mar 14, 2021 |
|
However it sounds, we lived through it!
|
Mar 07, 2021 |