Podcast 88 show notes
Added 2021-12-19 18:01:59 +0000 UTCHello there. What's going on this time around? Who knows. Jonny and Richard both a bit tired this week which might explain why they were so giggly about a deeply childish lyric changing game. Anyway, here are pictures of Shakin' Stevens sitting on a Cadillac, leaning on a Rolls-Royce Shadow (that might not be his), and sharing a sleigh with a lady he might have just clattered squarely in the face with a very cold football. Finally, we have photographic record of Jonny's recent encounter with the AA and an illustration of the new VW Polo monobrow. Now, on to some links...
If you're not in the UK you might be baffled by all this Shakin' Stevens talk. He's basically a sort of strange British 1950s rocker, but one who sold a LOT of records in the 1980s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakin%27_Stevens
Get some Christmas Shaky down your ear holes - https://youtu.be/N-PyWfVkjZc
This is the recent-ish Shakin' Stevens album Jonny mentioned. From this review it seems it is indeed really quite good - https://soundofthecrowd.org.uk/reviews/review-shakin-stevens-echoes-of-our-times/
That disastrous late seventies GM diesel engine -https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1978-85-olds-lf9-diesel-v-8
And the equally disastrous 8-6-4 variable displacement V8 - https://www.drivingline.com/articles/cadillacs-8-6-4-variable-displacement-engine-was-ahead-of-its-time-and-its-tech/
How much musicians are (claimed to be) making from Christmas songs - https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/seasonably-rich-how-much-are-musicians-making-from-our-favourite-christmas-songs-12727
The making of Do They Know It's Christmas (including lyrics thoughts from JT Taylor of Kool and the Gang) - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-making-of-band-aid-secrets-and-stories-from-the-star-studded-session-172815/
Comments
The soon to be discontinued new Dodge Challengers have angel eye type lights. People do get out of the way. I've always loved them on BMWs. It's a great look, I don't understand why they've done that weird flattening off thing.
Peter Bell
2023-12-04 22:36:38 +0000 UTCJust watching this year’s Top Gear Christmas special. Who played them out, ACTUAL SHAKEY. Might be worth asking Monkey what car Me Steven’s arrived in
Richard Major
2021-12-25 11:31:36 +0000 UTCMerry Pissflaps one and all! Xmas game of Shotmaster champions league?
Paul
2021-12-25 09:36:00 +0000 UTCMy Christmas gift to you chaps is a link to my single from a few years back - Let’s Not Balls Up Pissflaps Again. I make approximately the price of a Greggs mince pie each year from it, so if you give it a listen you’re effectively paying for a couple of grains of icing sugar! It’s about drinking too much on Christmas Eve so that you’re incapable of getting the presents out for the kids when you get home… 😬 Enjoy and Merry Christmas to all!! https://open.spotify.com/track/1lNyw12r5oiONJTjBuwZXn?si=K5ZsCnFJS_23o5QjHwHdfA
Damian Rigby
2021-12-24 23:01:57 +0000 UTC🤣 He brings his Cadillac in and the tester just looks on in horror, but remains very polite throughout
Ed Storer
2021-12-21 13:51:29 +0000 UTCExcellent way to round off the year. Chops and the AA man are the heroes of the week!
Tim Lewis
2021-12-21 12:09:28 +0000 UTCAnother great episode OTSOT, thanks chaps. On another note, I think you'll enjoy this https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM83ac6tX/
Mike Follows
2021-12-20 16:28:58 +0000 UTCI'd imagine that Shakey down to minimal royalties would be convinced by an unscrupulous dealer to invest in a Chrysler Lebaron. In a vibrant red or pink dragged from the back of the yard. I can imagine him leaving Aldi car park after half an hour of trying to get it to start cruising out with a knackered soft top half down shuddering and backfiring. On the subject of Christmas songs can you guys do one involving brut? Happy splashy Christmas etc
Ed Davis
2021-12-20 14:58:00 +0000 UTCGreat show guys and the recovery guy sounds a good guy. I could have swore I heard Bono once saying how he liked and its importance his line was in the song ? Just did a Google search and cannot find it? Lol clearly imagined it
Paul Smith
2021-12-20 13:42:22 +0000 UTCElton John's Step into Pissflaps: "Welcome to my Pissflaps song I'd like to thank you for the year So I'm sending you this Pissflaps card ..." I know, I'm a big child
Duncan Dyer
2021-12-20 10:07:43 +0000 UTCTop episode again. Merry Piss Flaps to you! New Year can we hear about Richard in the French hot hatch race on GT. What happened to him in the race?
david price
2021-12-20 08:16:53 +0000 UTCI'd like to think Shakey drivers a Bentley Continental. Possibly a Jaguar XF or Lexus LS? That said it's probably a Volvo XC90 as I can't see him in a Range Rover Sport.
Cornish Rider
2021-12-20 08:05:25 +0000 UTCThe conundrum for us listeners now is; do we risk our Spotify algorithms and give the 9/10 Shakey album a listen? 😬 https://open.spotify.com/album/5V8wwddw8SFaBv4Gb6xBkn?si=fDjwjUnLQzSyRSrIq4JV-g&utm_source=copy-link
Fergus McIver
2021-12-20 06:06:54 +0000 UTC“Shaken” Stevens just made me think of the possibly eyebleedingly expensive MoT equivalent that’s due every two years in Japan. Literally no chance of the 80s Cadillac getting through that, it’d cost all the Christmas royalties ever.
Ant Brown
2021-12-19 20:24:40 +0000 UTCShakin’ Stevens is pretty much the same age as I am. So he was 12 in 1960. Possibly a 50s rocker, more likely 60s.
Chris Rayner
2021-12-19 19:31:32 +0000 UTCAll hail the Welsh Elvis! No one rocks double denim like the Shakemeister ha ha. As a kid I thought he was so cool in the ‘this ol’house’ video, basically in a construction site with white pumps and double denim…must have been the sparky #OTSOT Keep up the great work/nonsense it makes my drive to Cumbria each week a real pleasure. All the best, John D 👍
John Dawson
2021-12-19 18:25:45 +0000 UTC
