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First Impressions

Music Talk

A music podcast featuring Rick Walker and Romy Gregory discussing albums they've assigned each other to listen to for the first time. Subscribe on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first-impressions/id1079801210?mt=2

Location:

Leeds, United Kingdom

Description:

A music podcast featuring Rick Walker and Romy Gregory discussing albums they've assigned each other to listen to for the first time. Subscribe on iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first-impressions/id1079801210?mt=2

Language:

English


Episodes

Season Two - Ep. Five: Slipknot's "Vol. 3" vs. Avenged Sevenfold's "Avenged Sevenfold"

5/5/2017
Friends! First Impressions is back once again to brighten up your Friday morning! This week, we're talking about Slipknot's "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" and general Slipknot related musings, as well as Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled effort "Avenged Sevenfold". There's some brief musings on the news over the past week or so, we talk live music in Leeds and Rick tells us about his trip to the big NYC! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for...

Duration:01:37:55

Season Two - Ep Four: Jackson Browne's "Looking East" v. The Hold Steady's "Boys & Girls in America"

4/21/2017
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday… now you’ve been reminded of Rebecca Black’s “masterpiece”, perhaps you need to cleanse your ears with the soothing sounds of the First Impressions podcast?! We’re back once again, this week discussing Jackson Browne’s “Looking East” and the Hold Steady’s “Boys and Girls in America", amongst other musical goings on, and perhaps a tad too much politics... not to mention a whole five minutes dedicated to FUNNY TWEETS! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME...

Duration:01:46:32

Season Two - Ep. Three: Opeth's Ghost Reveries vs. Noah Gundersen's "Carry The Ghost"

4/7/2017
Ahoy sailors, its First Impression Friday! We're back once again, this week to talk about the excellent Opeth and Noah Gundersen. We discuss Opeth's Ghost Reveries (in great detail!) and Noah Gundersen's Carry The Ghost, making this a very ghoulish week! We also talk music news, a variety of gigs we've been to lately amongst other digressions (as usual). We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian -...

Duration:02:06:15

Season Two - Ep. Two: Frank Turner's "England, Keep My Bones" vs. System of a Down's "Hypnotize"

3/24/2017
Welcome back! As promised, we've only left it two weeks between episodes this time! We're here this week with two very different albums from the wonderful Frank Turner and System of a Down. We discuss moarrr festival line ups (surprise, surprise!) and the various live shows we've been to over the past two weeks. Hope you have all the fun listening! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian -...

Duration:01:41:46

Season Two - Ep. One: Rise Against's "Appeal To Reason" vs. Mongol Horde's "Mongol Horde"

3/10/2017
*Ahem* is this thing on? Welcome back and welcome to SEASON TWO! It's been a while and we apologise for the break, we're back and better than ever*! After our (very) long hiatus, we're here to talk about the albums we set each other before our break; Rise Against's Appeal to Reason & Mongol Horde's Mongol Horde. We also talk about festivals and other general nonsense, it wouldn't be First Impressions without the extended preamble! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule!...

Duration:01:28:10

Ep. Unlucky Thirteen - Rock am Swim

6/17/2016
We have arisen from the dead... or the drowned at least. Yes, you read that right, we did not drown at Rock am Ring, it's a Christmas (sort of) miracle! We're sure you've all been very concerned about our absence, so we have a nice little update episode for you explaining our time away, as well as touching on some of the news that's happened whilst we were gone. We hope the wait will make this episode even sweeter... Recommendations • Rick: not going to Rock am Ring, BOATS, MANGO in...

Duration:01:15:36

Ep. Twelve - Edguy's "Rocket Ride" vs. Natives' "Indoor War"

5/13/2016
(Apologies for the delay in this going live, blame #DrunkRomy) Get right outta town! First Impressions is back once again to infect your earholes! This week we tackle Edguy’s Rocket Ride and Natives’ Indoor War. We’re talking serious summer tunage here people. We also go on at length about news, live shows and new releases, aren’t you lucky?! We’re taking another break next week, so we’ll see you in two weeks time (if you’re really nice to us, that is). Don’t go too loco without our luscious...

Duration:01:20:03

Ep. Eleven - Arctic Monkey's "AM' vs. Lamb of God's "VII: Sturm und Drang"

4/29/2016
Roll up kids, the First Impressions circus is back once again! This week's episode focuses on Arctic Monkey's AM and Lamb of God's VII: Sturm and Drang. Of course you'll find our usual ramblings and digressions about music news, festivals, live shows and new releases packaged in there as well, isn't that nice of us? We hope you enjoy the episode and we'll see you again in two weeks time on May 13th, don't miss us too much! Recommendations • Rick the Unquestionable: Devin Townsend’s...

Duration:01:47:12

Ep. Ten, Part Two - Peter Gabriel's "Up" vs. Green Day's "American Idiot"

4/22/2016
Wahoo! We’ve hit the TEN episode mark AND we hit ONE THOUSAND total listens! Thank you so much everyone! We’ve got a super-long, super-special episode for you as a result of this. We’ve split this episode into two parts for you to make it a bit more manageable. The first part has our news, live music and new releases discussion, with the beginning of our discussion on Peter Gabriel’s Up. The second part finishes off our Peter Gabriel discussion, leading onto discussion of Green Day’s...

Duration:01:27:54

Ep. Ten, Part One - Peter Gabriel's "Up" vs. Green Day's "American Idiot"

4/22/2016
Wahoo! We’ve hit the TEN episode mark AND we hit ONE THOUSAND total listens! Thank you so much everyone! We’ve got a super-long, super-special episode for you as a result of this. We’ve split this episode into two parts for you to make it a bit more manageable. The first part has our news, live music and new releases discussion, with the beginning of our discussion on Peter Gabriel’s Up. The second part finishes off our Peter Gabriel discussion, leading onto discussion of Green Day’s...

Duration:01:35:22

Ep. Nine - Warren Zevon's "Transverse City" vs. Brand New's "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me"

4/15/2016
Ahoy sailors! All aboard this week’s episode of First Impressions where we’ve got some fantastic albums to discuss for you once again; one of which became foundational for one of us and the other for the music scene one of us resides in. Prize* to whoever guesses which is which! We also cover some other interesting topics for your enjoyment, namely the latest news (… or semi-latest), new releases, being old, politics (sorry) and nostalgia within music. Have fun with it (but not too much fun...

Duration:01:35:47

Ep. Eight - Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" vs. In Flames' "Sounds of a Playground Fading"

4/1/2016
This is not a drill, nor is it an April Fools! First Impressions returns for another episode, aren’t you lucky?! This week, we begin with Romy paying tribute to AP.net (RIP), Rick tells us about news and releases (yes, you read that right!) and we discuss when it’s acceptable to give up on an album/artist, before launching into regular album discussion. Sorry for the delay again with this one, we’re hoping that as of this week we’re going to be back into our regular Friday postings. Also, we...

Duration:01:34:31

Ep. Seven - Sabaton's "Heroes" vs. The 1975's "I like it when you sleep..."

3/20/2016
We’re backkkkk! And we’ve missed you guys, so without further ado, here’s Episode Seven! We’re kicking off with a bit of news, Romy rambles about the Hotelier (no surprises here), we briefly touch on lyrics and what we like about them, then we launch straight into our albums of the week. Romy apologies for her general uselessness this week; dissertation writing is hard. Have a silly picture of Rick trying to be cool and Romy trying to be Rick: http://i.imgur.com/LMeYB2j.jpg Recommendations...

Duration:01:12:45

Ep. Six - Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight/Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

3/4/2016
Happy Friday everyone! First Impressions is back once again. This week, we kick off with some news, as always, more festival line-up discussion and then delve into our albums of the week; Frightened Rabbit’s “The Midnight Organ Fight” and Dream Theater’s “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” (Disc Two). Expect digression, confession and loads of fun in session. Sorry for the terrible rhymes. Here are our dream festival line-ups! Romy’s - http://i.imgur.com/PNWi46X.png Rick’s -...

Duration:01:15:51

Ep. Five - Metallica's "The Black Album" vs. Relient K's "Forget and Not Slow Down"

2/26/2016
First Impressions is back once again! This week, we talk about news, Kesha vs. Dr Luke, festival lineups and then our albums of the week: The Black Album and Forget and Not Slow Down. We hope you enjoy it! Apologies for the slight sound issues (again) at the beginning of the podcast, it gets sorted 10 minutes in! To make up for this, have a photo of us (and Charlotte) being idiots at Enter Shikari - http://imgur.com/CmDGuHC Recommendations - Listen to Sahara from Forget and Not Slow Down! -...

Duration:01:13:23

Ep. Four - Machine Head's "The Blackening" vs. Jack’s Mannequin’s “Everything in Transit”

2/19/2016
Episode Four - vs. Jack’s Mannequin’s “Everything in Transit” Another week, another episode of First Impressions. This week, we start off with some news, a quick discussion about streaming services and our most anticipated albums of the year, before moving onto discussing our two albums of the week - Machine Head’s The Blackening and Jack’s Mannequin’s Everything in Transit. We hope you enjoy! Apologies for the interference towards the beginning of the podcast, we are sorting this out!...

Duration:01:27:49

Ep. Three - Devin Townsend Project’s “Epicloud” vs. Deaf Havana’s “Old Souls”

2/12/2016
Welcome back! In this week’s episode, we tackle two favourites of ours; Devin Townsend Project’s Epicloud and Deaf Havana’s Old Souls. There is a vast amount of digression from both these albums, as usual, we hope you can tolerate this and Romy’s habitual ranking blathering. Apologies for any slurring/stumbling/stuttering; this was recorded at 9am after a rather heavy night and thus our abilities to speak were slightly hindered… Recommendations - Dream Theater’s The Astonishing, Rick’s cover...

Duration:01:27:25

Ep. Two - Ayreon's 'The Universal Migrator I & II' vs. The Wonder Years’ 'The Greatest Generation'

2/5/2016
Hello and welcome back to First Impressions. This week, we talk about Ayreon’s “Universal Migrator, Pt. I & II” & The Wonder Years’ “The Greatest Generation”, and of course, deviate off topic, talking about narrative content of albums vs. musical content and whether the length of an album can hinder your opinion of it, amongst other topics! You can now subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!)by following this link...

Duration:01:10:23

Ep. One - Monuments’ “The Amanuensis” vs The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ “Don’t You Fake It”

1/29/2016
Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of First Impressions! This week, we talk about Monument’s The Amanuensis, set by the one and only Mr Rick Walker for Romy, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ Don’t You Fake It, set by Romy for Rick. We dive into a whole load of subjects as a result of our discussions on these albums, and only deviate off topic slightly, surprisingly. Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud...

Duration:01:04:38