#18 (1978 Part 1) Blondie, The Police, Jeff Wayne, The Stranglers & more

The Album Years

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4.9 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Steven and Tim return with 1978, a year so rich with significant albums ripe for discussion it looks like it’s going to require 4 episodes to get through them all! Part 1 takes on board Tim's suggestions for 'guilty pleasures’ (a notion which Steven strongly objects to), and the non-stop rise of the New Wave goes interstellar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.3	Can you believe, Tim tim we've been doing this
0:55.8	for almost two years we've talked about a lot of records haven't we a lot of records and um
1:03.4	i think we've been broadly pretty positive about about uh what we've talked about and i hope
1:07.9	people feel our enthusiasm for the music we talk about.
1:11.4	But perhaps we should open things up because we haven't done this for a while. Let's have
1:15.7	readers letters, Tim. Come on, you must have been monitoring for social media.
1:20.0	I've actually got no readers letters for you today. None.
1:23.4	I thought you spend all your day on social media, checking what people are saying about you.
1:28.3	No, I don't even deign to look at it.
1:31.3	So you've got no idea what people thought about our Christmas special, for example?
1:35.3	Okay, I do, yeah, obviously.
1:37.3	Ah, okay.
1:38.3	That seems to go down pretty well.
1:41.3	They actually like the guest as well.
1:42.3	Paul Sinclair. They thought he was a good
1:44.8	addition. Yeah, yeah. Good. Okay. Well, great. So we continue to talk about the idea of the album.
1:51.0	The podcast is called the album years. We, you know, as I think we sort of laid out from the very
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