Well, that return last year didn't turn out quite like we planned but we're back now baby! As we promised nearly 10 months ago we're aptly back talking the juggernaut that is AC/DC's 'Back in Black'. One of the top-selling albums of all time and the band's first album after the death of front-man Bon Scott, there's much to play for here.

Adam and Mike, sit down to unpick the album's deep penetrating metaphors. What could the band be saying? Something about death? Something Brian Johnson's Johnson? Penis pleasure? Tallywackers? Tallywackers played by guitars? What could they mean? Join us once more as we work it all out.

It's good to be back.

Buy/Stream

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Black-Ac-Dc/dp/B000089RV6

https://www.discogs.com/release/556030-ACDC-Back-In-Black

https://open.spotify.com/album/6mUdeDZCsExyJLMdAfDuwh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/back-in-black/574050396

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Welcome to Pop Tarts, Men of No Consequence's lovely bonus show, which comes at no extra cost to you dear listener.

Here's the scoop, Adam loves a good music biography, auto or otherwise. Pop Tarts offers us an insight into his opinions on these tomes.

For the first installment he has picked Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz's autobiography 'Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina'. By the sounds of it, the man loves his wife, good for him.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/remain-in-love/chris-frantz/9781474615143

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We may have re-branded but there's the small matter of finishing off work started on The Listening Party. Welcome to part two of our dive into the James Bond themes, taking us from the mid-1980s to the present day. Come hear tales of drunk brummies getting boozed with John Barry, Pierce Brosnan's contractual tomfoolery, Scott Walker's chastisement of the Bond producers, and Mike's miscomprehension of how Christmas works. If you'd like to keep up with what we're talking about, here's the tracklist:

• Duran Duran - 'A View to a Kill'
• a-ha - 'The Living Daylights'
• Gladys Knight - 'Licence to Kill'
• Tina Turner - 'Goldeneye'
• Sheryl Crow - 'Tomorrow Never Dies'
• Garbage - 'The World is Not Enough'
• Madonna - 'Die Another Day'
• Chris Cornell - 'You Know My Name'
• Jack White & Alicia Keys - 'Another Way to Die'
• Adele - 'Skyfall'
• Sam Smith - 'Writings on the Wall'
• Billie Eilish - 'No Time to Die'

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Like the caterpillar going through a metamorphosis to become the butterfly. Or Megatron being transformed into Galvatron by Unicron. 'The Listening Party with Adam & Mike' has been away so it can come back as something greater...

After months spent in rooms with marketers, ad agencies, gurus, and the wealth of a small nation being spent on fees behold...

'The Opinions of Men Of No Consequence', we remain Men Of No Consequence and we're still providing context, thoughts, and wheel spinning as part of the deal. In this return ep, Adam chooses something outside his wheelhouse. 2006's theatrical rock behemoth 'The Black Parade' by My Chemical Romance.

Buy/Stream

https://open.spotify.com/track/5wQnmLuC1W7ATsArWACrgW?autoplay=true

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-black-parade/1156310650

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Parade-My-Chemical-Romance/dp/B000I5Y8ZU

https://mychemicalromance.warnerrecords.com/products/the-black-parade-cd

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Duh, duh, bwommp. Duh, duh, bwommp. Duh duh de duh duh! Bwom, bwom, bwom, bwom.

Silhouettes of ladies (probably naked).

Guns, guns, guns! Gunsight, man in a suit, bang, blood everywhere.

It’s Bond, everyone!

Join Adam and Mike as they manoeuvre their way through ignorance (Adam’s), geopolitical insensitivity (The entire franchise’s), and horns (John Barry’s). It’s volume one of a bumper two part Bondathon and what a mixed bag is here! From Britain’s Sinatra to America’s other Sinatra; from Wales’ Bassey to Wales’ Tom Jones. They’re all here! (Plus Sheena Easton and Lulu).

Buy/Stream

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=james+bond+soundtrack&dc&crid=3JQF5K3ZU4CN9&sprefix=james+bond+soundtracks%2Caps%2C101&ref=a9_sc_1

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What hope now for mankind as the atomic fires accelerate the death of all things?

Whither hope?

It’s here!

In king of the common room, people’s poet and Bowie’s bete noire (despite him, presumably, being unbothered): it’s Steve ‘Steven’ Harley with Cockney Rebel’s 1974 curio ‘The Psychomodo’. Join Adam and Mike for a conversation in which they basically agree in spite of complications (Harley himself).

Buy/Stream

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Psychomodo/dp/B00005JGBK

https://www.discogs.com/master/86321-Cockney-Rebel-The-Psychomodo

https://open.spotify.com/album/6CCOQgAymEpzA70UvpHZhw

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-psychomodo-2012-remaster/1142691103

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In a change to the schedule, Adam and Mike found time in our dear friend Jon's schedule (a man of some consequence) and he has chosen the debut album by England's premier 'avin-it-large purveyors Oasis. Confirmed Oasis skeptics, our hosts will have to negotiate these choppy waters with journalistic impartiality to work out whether it truly is one of the great debut albums.

Buy/Stream

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Definitely-Maybe-Oasis/dp/B00004RJLB

https://store.hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/definitely-maybe

https://open.spotify.com/album/3LzKUdUTdJb6P7xGN6SotC

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/definitely-maybe-deluxe-edition-remastered/1525936190

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PSA - this episode of The Listening Party has been re-purposed for a town meeting so we may discuss the threat of GIRL POWER.

Late-90s R AND B! The Pauline Quirke Academy! Cheryl Baker's great sacrifice! A Flesh Column and 5 out-going young ladies who went on to sell 23 million copies of their debut album. We're talking the 1996 juggernaut 'Spice' by Spice Girls.

Buy/Stream

https://open.spotify.com/album/3x2jF7blR6bFHtk4MccsyJ

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/spice-girls/646793

https://www.thespicegirls.com/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spice-Girls/dp/B000000WCA

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