Up for discussion:‘The Idiot’, how good?

Why did no one tell us about Dana Gillespie?Why didn’t they call Visconti sooner?

How much would you like to hear the Heather Small/Lesley Garrett version of ‘Perfect Day’

Why couldn’t David keep his hand away from the fader?

Bless you for coming back.x

We hope everyone is staying safe and well during the Great Weirdness we find ourselves in. If you are then join Adam and Mike for a Lockdown Special where the topic around the table is what many consider as “the great lost album” in Dear David’s catalogue… Toy.

Please join in, admittedly a beery episode, where comparisons to the past singles and the 2000 versions are compared.

Also,

Was the world crying out for a ‘60s’ album?

Did we need to hear how “tight” the ‘hours…’ touring band were.

What is Tony Benn doing here?

Who is the saviour of the album Garson or Visconti?

Anything can sound like good news if you do it in Dear Davids voice.

Mercy, it’s taken a while but Adam and Mike reach the peak of the live album round. Discussing the final years of Dear Davids touring life involving deep dives on VHI Storytellers, Glastonbury 2000 and A Reality Tour whilst skirting around the Outside, Earthling and Heathen tours.

Also up for discussion

How annoyed are they that they announced a new live album after recording?

Could some shows have sounded better with a traveling theremin player?

The Mystery that is Em Gryner.

Glastonbury outfit; yay or nay?

Finally, which is the best and worst tour?

Join won’t you?

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The 1980s was a glorious time for Dear David, financially. Artistically? Hmm. Join Adam and Mike as the dive into the live albums of David Bowie continues. Come be confounded by Serious Moonlight. Dumbfounded by Glass Spider. Stupefied by Oy Very, Baby.

Up for discussion this time:

Could any song survive the Serious Moonlight musical treatment?

Glass Spider is it really that bad?

The “spectacle” of a glass spider walking through the streets

The Sales Brothers? Monsters or Comedic Geniuses?

How farty can those Serious Moonlight trumpets get?

Peter Frampton’s great bursting climax.

The Brilliant Adventure through Dear David Bowie’s live albums continues as Adam and Mike finish off the 70s. Looking through Cracked Actor, Live Nassau Coliseum, Stage and Welcome to the Blackout there is much to discuss;

How much time did David give Michael Kamen to change the Diamond Dogs tour before curtain up?

How much Electric Violin does the world need?

How much did Dear David hate us all on the Isolar tour?

Tube lighting looks boss.

When drug pushers become flutists.

Join us in the Blackout?

It’s been a fair old time since Adam and Mike last spoke about Dear David and there’s Bowie News abound.

Kicking off a look through David Bowie’s Live Albums it may proof to be a bigger undertaking than previously thought. There’s quite a lot now!

Join them as they begin with Santa Monica ’72, breathlessly move into Ziggy Stardust the Motion Picture Soundtrack then admire the transition in David Live.

Previously on Breaking Glass – The David Bowie Catalogue, Adam and Mike left on things on a particularly dull cinematic cliffhanger.

Join us… them? As truck plummets off the cliff to talk Absolute Beginners, Labyrinth, When the Wind Blows, a film about Jesus, a British Sitcom – one famous, one not so much, some kids films and one of the finest cameos of all time.

Join the conversation. Up for discussion:

– Dear David’s fundamental misunderstanding of puppets
– Why James Fox is our better
– Which is the most obscure role Bowie took
– Why Omikron continues to be the BEST game ever
– Why Mr. Rice’s Secret? Thanks for coming back! x

The Alien, His PA, A Muse and a Serial Killer. Can Adam & Mile unravel the mysterious plot of David Bowie’s final artistic statement, the stage show ‘Lazarus’. The answer is almost certainly “No” but let’s see what nonsense they come up with. Talking the making of the show along with a rundown of the songs and a chat about the ‘No Plan’ EP join us please as we talk:

– Bad Irish accents

– Musicals for Cuckolds

– Bowie’s unblinking artistic “fuck you” to everyone

– Have Queen ever heard a money making idea they didn’t like?

– Which song do the actors sing the best?

– Did anyone really understand what was/is going on?

Thanks for coming back!

Read the full interview in the latest magazine in print or free online at http://SteelChair.co.uk

It’s been a long old break, but this 2002 David Bowie album won’t talk about itself! Considered one of the highlights of the latter day catalogue, Heathen is ripe for discussion. Will it stand the test of time and our strident critical… um… critique? The answer is most certainly yes. But do WE like it?

Join us on the most explosive episode yet of Hell’s Kitchen

Or to give it it’s full title: 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle).

What’s a Hyper Cycle I hear you ask? Well Adam and Mike aren’t sure either. Join them won’t you as they venture through art and murder and boobery. Come meet the cavalcade of characters who join them on their quest to answer quest to find out:

How insufferable were Bowie and Eno at this time?

How angry is Carlos Alomar?

Which is the better Strangers When We Meet?

Is the album too long or not long enough?

HYPER CYCLE

Well the plan to get back to an episode every fortnight didn’t turn out as thought…urgh it’s simply been too hot. Now that Adam and Mike have peeled themselves off their rocket fuelled golden thrones they are talking David Bowie’s 1993 singles comeback album ‘Black Tie, White Noise’ Many questions

– How lovely was Bowie’s wedding to Iman?
– How funny would a montage of their courtship really be?
– Is Bowie the best House musician ever?

– How angry is Nile Rodgers about this album?
– Why can’t Morrisey be cool?

Up for discussion: Is Tin Machine II really about life inside a massive whale?

Does Tin Machine II hold some of Bowie’s finest work?

Why? Why? Why? Why? Did Hunt Sales get to sing TWO songs?

Aren’t vibrators and bread rolls funny?

It’s a strange thing when Bowie’s the most normal of the group. That’s not a question but a fact.

Will Reeves Gabrels get to tend the rabbits when the band disbands?

– Is every song too long?
– Is Reeves Gabrels the unsung hero?
– How can one remain “street” and fly first class at the same time?
– Is there any elderly chanteuse Mike doesn’t enjoy listening to?
– Why do racists hate jazz and blues?

If there’s one thing you can say about Adam & Mike is that; they know when to go out and know when to stay in… get things done. This episode the discussion is all things ‘Let’s Dance’, David Bowie’s 1983 Pop Opus that thrust the rock icon into popular Mega Stardom.

Some would say betraying many of his ideals on the way but goodness did the music shake! On the docket:

– Is Ricochet the first pop song to reference W.H. Auden?

– Is Modern Love the best album opener ever?

– Does Nile Rodgers really sound like the “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes

– How awesome is Ricochet?

– Why don’t like Ricochet?

Widely regarded as David Bowie’s last true masterpiece, until ‘Blackstar’ of course, Adam and Mike kill some time discussing 1980’s ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Learning from the mistakes of the ‘Lodger’ episode, mostly don’t drink on the job, the topics of discussion are:

How much Columbo can you watch whilst Tom Verlaine is in the studio?

How good was Bowie’s Japanese accent?

Is ‘Ashes to Ashes’ flawless?

Is ‘Teenage Wildlife’ on of rocks first “Diss tracks”

Should the phrase “Diss” still be said in this day and age.

How afraid are we for what comes after this album?

Talking about David Bowie’s 1979 album ‘Lodger’, Adam and Mike find themselves at a crossroads. One loves the third part of the Berlin Trilogy. One follows general consensus that it’s a mess of an album. Who will you agree with? Amongst general arguing, also on the agenda is:

– How many Bowie Stamps will YOU be buying?

– How much of a cuss was Frank Zappa?

– Is ‘Boys Keep Swinging’ a bit of a ‘Rebel Rebel’
– How ridiculous is ‘African Night Flights’

– Will there be another fascinating Iggy Pop monologue?

Happy New Year to the handful of you!

To mark one year since the Great David Bowie’s passing, Adam and Mike discuss the monumental “Heroes”. The documentary ‘The Last Five Years’ is also up on the docket along with Bowie news items. Join us one time (or maybe a few more) where the following is up for debate:

– How do you pronounce Neukoln?
– Does the title track suffer the Rebel Rebel effect?
– How much of a masterpiece is ‘Just a Gigolo’
– What’s Bowie talking about on Joe the Lion?
– Who does the best German accent; Adam or Mike?

Come in from the cold.

Happy New Year to all in sundry. Adam and Mike cross time and geographical boundaries once more to discuss David Bowie’s seminal ‘Low’. There’s not much news but by gum there’s a lot to talk about on this album. Up for discussion this time round:

– How many words in total feature on the album? – Were children’s piano tunes stolen from them in a disgusting act of thievery?
– Why does Adam not remember Iggy Pop’s ‘The Idiot’?
– Is ‘Always Crashing in the Same Car’ the birth of Goth Rock
– How many times can Mike say the word “Apparently” in a couple of hours.

These questions and more will be drawn out to within an inch of their lives.

With Adam blending in on an oil rig Mike is left to his own devices on the one good branch of Greggs on the high street. Their Facetime chat finds them discussing David Bowie’s all time classic Station to Station. How much do they love it? Perhaps too much to form cohesive sentences. Come let’s gush together and also discuss;

– Mike’s skills as a foley artist
– Do you believe Dwight Yoakam’s Hoakem?
– Should a Bowie song ever be cut down for singles?
– Is anything on the album less that a 9 out of 10?

David Bowie News aplenty means a bumper edition of the podcast! Adam & Mike discuss the rolling news from Blackstar sleeve secrets to the Sotheby’s auction via Mike’s opinion on the Lazarus show. Plus the main event – chatting about the much overlooked masterpiece Young Americans. On this episodes agenda:

– Did anyone need Bowie Legacy?

– How angry was Visconti not to be at the Fame session?

– Is the album one of the smuttiest of Bowie’s career?

– How many spectre’s are allowed in the VIP area?

Come hear the answers.

It was supposed to be simple. A trip to Cybertron? Count us in. There’s been a miscommunication between Adam & Mike about which Transformers we were talking to so now we’ve ended up on Moon Base 2. The conversation doesn’t stop though as Diamond Dogs is on the agenda. Just how much Orwellian fury is at work? How much glam still coarses through it’s veins? Why do Adam & Mike dislike Rebel Rebel so much? These questions amongst others… WILL. BE. TOUCHED. UPON!!!

Rome burns but Adam and Mike care not a jot because there’s a Bowie’s cover album to be talkin’ about. Join them along with the VIP Room as they discuss such important matters as: Is Sorrow the best song on the album? Is anyone’s favourite album a covers album? What would a psychedelic Bowie sounded like? Who had the better autobiography Peter Ustinov or Errol Flynn? All these questions and more will be discussed but not necessarily resolved in Episode 7 – Pin Ups

No expense has been spared as Adam, Mike & The VIP Area find themselves in the auspices of the Court of the Crimson King.

This episode the album with possibly the most iconic album cover of them all is up for discussion – Aladdin Sane. Many questions will be answered:

What other song would be a better album opener?
Which is the best of the Mike Garson piano-led numbers?
What’s the difference between Ziggy Stardust pre and post America?
How much is the Crimson King charging to rent the space?
Do we all have to put our ties on when The Bad Seeds are in the room?

Find out in Episode 6 of Breaking Glass – The Bowie Catalogue