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On this episode, we are turning the tables on ourselves and the general vibe and discussing some of our personally most hated songs, and forcing each other and our dear listeners to listen to those songs.Sometimes it's irrational, sometimes it's circumstantial, sometimes it's association, but sometimes the song is just bad, and awful, and terrible.Niall and Andrea are here for their first ever hatefest. Join us in hell.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Andrea and Niall's favourite music of the month time.This time out, we're recommending and discussing new albums from Julia Jacklin, Elaine Howley, Danger Mouse & Black Thought, Claude and Declaime/Madlib. The songs selections include Ruby Goon, Anna Mullarkey, Arctic Monkeys, jake Xerxes Fussell and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.We also discuss the Win Butler misconduct allegations surrounding Arcade Fire's dates in Dublin this week, and chat about experiences at Another Love Story and the No Encore Quiz episode.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode Niall and Andrea we dig into one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole.one of the most influential dance albums of the '90s - Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole.Released in 1997, Dig Your Own Hole was the second album from Tow Rowlands and Ed Simons, an album that brought a UK number 1 with Setting Sun featuring Noel Gallagher on vocals, acclaim in the US that allowed them to build upon the success of 1995's debut Exit Planet Dust and become household touring names.\The album, featuring the singles 'Setting Sun', 'Block Rockin' Beats', 'Elektrobank' and 'The Private Psychedelic Reel' were released the same year as Radiohead's OK Computer, The Prodigy's Fat Of The Land, The Verve's Urban Hymns and Daft Punk's Homework.Electronic music was having a moment, Britpop was waning, music was becoming less reliant on real people playing drums, samples came from hip-hop and was changing pop music, there was a whole strand of electronic music, that had spilled out of the 88 acid house era in the UK and was making a mark.Dig Your Own Hole took the pair supernova in the music world, catapulting them from the big beat scene they were associated with to a zeitgeist-capturing dance music informed by psychedelia, funk, hip-hop, soul, rock and acid house.“They take a whole new song structure, the song structure of a house record, and make a psychedelic rock record.” - Jason Bentley KCRW DJ“Britpop-with-breakbeats” - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Simon ReynoldsListen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a Renaissance deep dive.Andrea and Niall are with episode 182 of the Nialler9 Podcast, and we are going on in on Beyoncé's seventh album Renaissance, an LP heavily and obviously inspired by black American house music, queer culture and ballroom (as well as her late cousin Uncle Johnny, a gay man she credits in the liner notes of the album for introducing her to queer sounds and subcultures).On this episode, we delve into the samples of house and bounce music on the record, deep cuts from American dance history illuminated with the help of producers Honey Dijon and Green Velvet among others for this Beyoncé album, that is pitched like a DJ mix.Andrea explores the incongruity of the millionaire/near-billionaire superstar paying homage to the largely poor ballroom and queer cultural communities of the late '80s and early '90s while namechecking fashion brands and promoting vast opulence.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly music recommender time.Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made the sunny summer month of July hotter than it already was.This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from beabadoobee, The Koreatown Oddity, Beyoncé and Gwenno. The songs selections include Jessie Ware, Sorcha Richardson, Aoife Nessa Frances, Lil Silva, Sarah Crean and Gilla Band.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hot Podcast Summah!This week, Niall and Andrea are looking at the contenders for song of the summer 2022. From Beyoncé to Harry Styles to Drake to the outsider bets, we look at the big seasonal hitters.What is a song of the summer anyway? We pick our personal favourites of the year (or not) and look at our summer songs of the past, and yes, I force Andrea to pick some upbeat songs for the episode.BBC Journalist Mark Savage wrote a piece in 2017 listing the key things a song of the summer needs They are:1) It has to be simple2) It should make you feel like you're on holiday3) Novelty is good4) Radio-friendly songs make bigger hits5) It should be released before the summer6) But it should have the word "summer" in the titleListen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Andrea and Niall and delving deep into the life, times, music, controversies and talent of one of the last great pop stars - George Michael.One of the biggest selling artists of all-time, George Michael came to fame through the pop band duo of Wham! before going on to one of the most successful and creative solo artist careers of the last 40 years. From 'Hotel Tropicana' to 'Faith' to 'Freedom 90' to 'Outside' to 'Fast Love' to 'Jesus To A Child', George Michael wrote, produced, played and sang on them all.George was an undeniable talent, a soulful singer, who often struggled with his fame and his life in the spotlight. He dealt with grief publicly and in private, while questions about his sexuality always hovered over his career. Taking our cue from the recently re-released Freedom Uncut documentary, produced by George before he died on Christmas Day 2016, and the release of a new box set of his seminal album Older, we delve into the backlash he received from American soul and R&B artists, his struggles with cannabis addiction, the sting operation that lead to his coming out and the best music of his career, his court case against his label, George the insightful interviewee and a focus on our favourite songs in his discography.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodesCv2PwtU39HQZOEkarNSj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly music recommender time. Andrea and Niall are here with the songs and albums that have made their month a bit brighter.This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Confidence Man, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Automatic and Robocobra Quartet and songs from Julia Jacklin, Anna Mieke, Ailbhe Reddy, Madison Cunningham, Dry Cleaning, Sworn Virgins and Courtney Barnett.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS Feed Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is on season 2 Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 It's been a few weeks since Andrea and Niall were able to pod because of holidays, festivals and the summer season.So it's a more casual episode this time around with Niall sharing his experiences from week 2 at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Andrea making a rare festival visit to Body & Soul Festival. There's also Forbidden Fruit chat and our Nialler9 Discord community weigh in our their experiences at Prima.And there's always time to talk about one of the greatest songs of all-time - 'Running Up That Hill' by Kate Bush, which as you no doubt know by now, has seen a resurgence thanks to its sync placement in season four of Netflix show Stranger Things, and promptly picked up 616 million Tik Tok plays and has gone to number 1 in the UK and Australia.Who knew a song from 1985 might become the song of the summer? You don't need to ask us twice to discuss the enduring appeal of the classic song, and why it's resonating once more.Plus, Andrea tells us her opinion on the new Beyoncé song.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / references Songs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Vox - How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music Linndrum famous songs Nialler9 Mix Series: Mix & Fairbanks – Linndrum mix 2016 Remixes mentioned: Patrice Baumel Edit Ashley Beedle Edit Support us on Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's monthly roundup time. Andrea and Niall are here with the new music recommender episode.This month we're recommending and discussing new albums from Kevin Morby, OliveyOlive, Just Mustard, Porridge Radio, Angel Olsen and songs from Kieran Hebden, Mallrat, Beverly-Glenn Copeland, Wet Leg, Cormac Begley and Beth Orton.Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify Playlist Support Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content. Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is back Andrea has a Ghost newsletter Subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a big episode. As it always is when it comes to an artist like Kendrick Lamar.Mr Morale & The Big Steppers, Lamar's fifth album, the Compton rapper's first album in five years, is out almost a week now and Niall and Andrea spend an hour and 40 minutes discussing this cerebral, personal, conceptual album in depth.The album is a therapy session and a morality play, seeking breakthroughs, with Kendrick sharing confessions while also speaking on the culture wars, his saviour complex and his sex addiction. It's the same album that explores racial, generational, and centrally, family trauma, while giving space to Kodak Black, who has pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a minor, the same topic that Kendrick unpacks here trying to break the "generational curse" while also exploring his acceptance of trans members of his family.His wife, Whitney Alford is central to the album, as is the work of German self-help author Eckhart Toll, while guests are limited but include Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Sampha Ghostface Killah, Amanda Reifer, Taylor Paige, Sam Dew and Tanna Leone.It's Kendrick with the N95 mask off.Let's dive in:Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Listen on Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's podcast is all about Andrea's favourite weird little guy and second favourite Paul - Paul Simon!Andrea takes us through her love of the songwriter's music, voice and guitar-playing, from Simon & Garfunkel to his big hit album Graceland, and the criticism, cultural boycott and art as politics argument. We focus on a handful of songs including 'The Sound Of Silence', 'Graceland', 'The Obvious Child', 'America' and 'Diamonds On The Soul Of Her Shoes'.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is backAndrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the monthly roundup of albums and songs we love with Andrea and Niall on with the new music recommender episode.This month we're discussing albums from Billy Woods, Let's Eat Grandma, Martian Subculture, Girlpool and Faye Webster and songs from Pusha T, Ailbhe Reddy, Two Shell, Soccer Mommy, SOAK, New Jackson and Robocobra Quartet's toxic wellness anthem.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea's own podcast - My Favourite Album is back next week.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fontaines D.C. have released their new album Skinty Fia, what they have suggested is the final part of an album trilogy, following on 2019's Dogrel and 2020's A Hero's Death, both of which we reviewed on the podcast.Since then the band have been anointed NME's Best Band In The World, have been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album, a Brit for Best International Group and an Ivor Novello for Best Album.Skinty Fia truly marks a band apart from the jangly garage rock of Liberty Belle, they have full extracted themselves from their musical origins and in the process have become one of the biggest rock bands around, garnering praise and rave reviews. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chatten said Skinty Fia was “largely informed and influenced by Irishness existing in England and mutating and becoming a new kind of culture in general.”Niall and Andrea give their thoughts the album, and talk about the Irishness and culture reflected in Skinty Fia, how Grian Chatten sees Dublin now, the album's sound which largely casts a dour dirgey atmosphere and what we want from a band like Fontaines D.C.Listen to the episode below or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You may have heard of the term Indie Sleaze lately. A term newly coined to describe a nostalgic trend of post-Y2K era of culture and aesthetics of indie music and parties that crossed cities and continents.Niall and Andrea are talking indie-rock, blog house, nu-rave, electro-clash and the alternative scene of the years of 2004 to 2012 that gave us the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Crystal Castles, CSS, Uffie, MGMT, New Young Pony Club, MIA, Hipster Runoff, Mashups, The Cobrasnake's hedonistic flash photography, Dublin clubs like Antics and spawned an Indie Sleaze instagram account.So how are Gen Z co-opting the vibe of the era and is the Indie Sleaze trend just a Tik-Tok-enabled churn in nostalgia economy? Plus, Louise McSharry, host of the new topical news podcast Catch Up, drops in to talk about her experiences of indie, electro and alternative of that time, the fashion and the tunes she still loves, and why she wants to start a club night in the era's honour.Listen to the episode here or subscribe in your favourite podcast app:Subscribe in Apple | Android | ACAST | Pocketcasts | CastBox | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS FeedEpisode notes / referencesSongs played on the Nialler9 Podcast Spotify PlaylistSupport Nialler9 on Patreon and join our Discord chat + member playlists & content.Andrea has a Ghost newsletterAndrea's own podcast - My Favourite AlbumSubscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on iTunes, tell your friends or commit to supporting us directly. Support us on Patreon.Previous podcast episodes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.