4.8 • 798 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Sophie shocks James with a musical secret, as they discuss the samba-punk fusion album MM3 by Meta Meta. Plus, who is the Brazilian Tina Turner?
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.6 | This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good. Hopefully it will. |
0:13.0 | Hello, my name is James Acaster, and in 2017, I had a breakdown, and I coached with that breakdown by downloaded as much music as possible as I could |
0:21.4 | from the year 2016. I now, as a result, own over 600 albums that came out in 2016 and I now |
0:29.4 | think it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced. |
0:33.3 | I also want to convince every single one of you and every week. I'm going to have a different |
0:36.2 | guests on the podcast, play them an album they've never heard before, and see if they will agree |
0:40.0 | that 2016 is the greatest year for music of all time. |
0:43.6 | This week, my guest is Sophie Duka, and the album is MM3 by Meta Meta-Meta are a Brazilian band who fuse samber music with punk music. It's very exciting to be talking about this album. |
1:12.9 | I think it's a highly energetic, frenetic album. Something's going on all the time. It's pretty |
1:17.7 | relentless. |
1:18.2 | We'll see if Sophie likes it, I have no idea what Sophie's taste in music is. |
1:32.7 | I mean, Sophie know each other from stand-up comedy. |
1:34.8 | Sophie's an amazing comedian. |
1:36.5 | She got nominated at the Edinburgh Fringe last year for her debut show, Venus. |
1:40.7 | If you haven't seen Sophie's work, you should definitely go out of your way to see or do comedy. |
1:44.9 | It's fantastic. |
1:46.1 | But in the meantime, let's see if me and Sophie can agree that 2016 is the greatest year for music of all time. |
2:03.8 | And first of all, we have to agree that this album is absolutely excellent, which I know I think it is. |
2:10.2 | So really, Sophie's the only one holding this up. |
2:12.9 | Here she comes. |
2:17.8 | Welcome Sophie to the seller of a restaurant with some vinyl in it. |
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