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Listen using the player here: Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #30 ("Twenty Twenty Four",17/01/2025) manually (Size: 40MB, 36 minutes duration). Chewing Gum for the Ears Show Notes - Show 30 Steve Litchfield and Ted Salmon Join Us at MeWe Chewing Gum for the Ears - Steve - Ted Our Selected 2024 Highlights Only Way Out by Hohnen Ford Scattered by David Gilmour from his album Luck and Strange Cost and Consequence by EBB from the EP The Management of Consequences Bored and Bewitched by Laufey from her album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition Fake is the New Dope by Hooverphonic from their album Fake is the New Dope Driving Me Too Hard by The Rolling Stones from their album Hackney Diamonds Other Stuff Practical Ability the Hawkwind Jam from Live at the Royal Albert Hall Waiting For a Friend by Roger Daltry from the McVicar Soundtrack album Visions the 2024 album by Norah Jones Defiance Part 2 the 2024 album by Ian Hunter Thanks Link Amazon Steve - Amazon Ted - PayPal Ted - PayPal Steve Links of Interest PodHubUK - Steve on Bluesky - Ted on BlueSky - Ted on Mastodon - MeWe PSC Group - PSC Photos - PSC Videos - WhateverWorks - Camera Creations - Tech Talk UK - TechAddictsUK - Chewing Gum for the Ears - Projector Room - Coffee Time - Ted's Salmagundi - Steve's Rants, Raves, and Reviews - Steve's YouTube Shorts

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Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #29 ("Six for Sharing",12/07/2023) manually (Size: 15MB, 35 minutes duration).

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Playlist

YouTube Music Playlist for these 12 Tracks for Show Notes (CGFTE29)

In Another Time - Sade (Soldier of Love, 2010)

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Al Green (Let's Stay Together, 1972)

Lady Grinning Soul - David Bowie (Aladdin Sane, 1973)

Let Your Love Walk In - Paloma Faith (Fall to Grace, 2012)

Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan (Gaucho, 1980)

Rock 'n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, 1972)

The Blue Nile - Easter Parade (A Walk Across the Rooftops, 1984)

Tenebrae & The Chamber Orchestra - Ola Gjeilo: The Spheres (Voices, Piano, Strings, 2016)

Tubeway Army - Me, I disconnect from you (Replicas, 1979)

Hawkwind - Damnation Alley (Palace Springs, 1977)

Santana - Europa (from Moonflower - Live) (Moonflower, 1977)

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Think Of A Number (Pet Shop Boys Remix) (Council Skies Deluxe, 2023)

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Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #28 ("Digitising LPs!?",09/01/2023) manually (Size: 15MB, 35 minutes duration).

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We chat about Ted's hobby of digitising old LPs, the irony (sometimes) and the pleasures...

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #27 ("2010-2019",15/09/2021) manually (Size: 27MB, 46 minutes duration).

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Our Picks from 2010-2019

Dido, Still on My Mind

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Psychedelic Pill

Daft Punk, Random Access Memories

Kari Jobe, The Garden

Dido, Girl Who Got Away

Gary Numan, Songs from a Broken World

Joe Bonamassa, Blues of Desperation

Adele, 21

Fleesh, Script For a New Season - Website

Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene 3

Coeur de Pirate, Roses

Regina Spektor, Remember Us To Life

Roger Waters, Is This The Life We Really Want?

Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker, Room 29

Paloma Faith, Do You Want The Truth or Something Beautiful

Paloma Faith, Fall to Grace

Caro Emerald, Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

Piano, Jools Holland

Blackstar, David Bowie

Piano Portraits, Rick Wakeman

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #26 ("Tim Evans and Music Generation",22/06/2021) manually (Size: 33MB, 56 minutes duration).

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Steve Litchfield & Ted Salmon with Tim Evans

My Top 6
New Order - Movement
The Midnight - Endless Summer
Carpenter Brut - Blood Machines
Look Mum No Computer - Look Mum No Bootleg
Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation
American Epic - The Collection
Love - Forever Changes

How I Listen
JVC M90 Boombox

Soundcloud HD. 

Apple AirPod Max

Dynacord Mixer

Beyerdynamic T1

Teac R2000

Fostex TH610

Apple Carplay

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #25 ("Live or Studio?",05/05/2021) manually (Size: 17MB, 35 minutes duration).

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Live Music vs Studio Recordings

The Case for Live Recordings

Live at Leeds, The Who

Live at the Regal, B.B. King

Made in Japan, Deep Purple

Frampton Comes Alive II, Peter Frampton

Live and Dangerous, Thin Lizzy

Wings over America, Wings

The Case for Studio Recordings

Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd

Can't Buy a Thrill, Steely Dan

Queen II, Queen

Bat Out of Hell, Meat Loaf

Hunky Dory, David Bowie

Amused to Death, Roger Waters

Bonus Links

Frampton Comes Alive II

Strings Attached, Ian Hunter

Classic Albums: A Night at the Opera, Queen

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #24 ("The Life and Times of Mick Ronson",25/03/2021) manually (Size: 24MB, 39 minutes duration).

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The Life and Times of Mick Ronson

David Bowie Collaboration

The Man Who Sold the World (1970)

Hunky Dory (1971)

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

Aladdin Sane (1973)

Pin Ups (1973)
Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture (1983)

Black Tie White Noise (1993)

Bowie at the Beeb (1968-72)

Live Santa Monica '72 (2008)

Ian Hunter Collaboration

Ian Hunter (1975)

You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic (1979)

Welcome to the Club (1980)

Short Back 'n' Sides (1981)

YUI Orta (1990)

BBC Live in Concert (1995)

His Own Albums

Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1974 - UK No. 9)

Play Don't Worry (1975 - UK No. 29)

Heaven and Hull (1994)

All the Young Dudes - Live Freddie Mercury Tribute

Just Like This (recorded in 1976, released in 1999)

Showtime (live in 1976 and 1989, released in 1999)

Indian Summer (recorded in 1981-2, released in 2001)

Others

All the Young Dudes (Mott the Hoople)

Lou Reed's Transformer (1972)

Ellen Foley's Night Out (1979)

Tributes

Ian Hunter's Michael Picasso from The Artful Dodger

Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson story DVD

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #23 ("The Noughties",25/01/2021) manually (Size: 28MB, 48 minutes duration).

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The Noughties!

Coldplay, Parachutes (2000)

U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind (2001)

Sigur Ros, () (2002)

Bruce Springsteen, The Rising (2002)

Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (2006)

Duffy, Rockferry (2008)

Mudcrutch, Mudcrutch (2008)

Karnataka, Strange Behaviour (2004)

Touchstone, Wintercoast (2009)

Catatonia, Equally Cursed & Blessed (2000)

Garbage, Beautiful Garbage (2001)

Norah Jones, Come Away With Me (2002)

Vanessa Carlton, Be Not Nobody (2002)

Dido, Life for Rent (2003)

Ian Hunter, Strings Attached (2003)

Joss Stone, Mind Body & Soul (2004)

Amy Winehouse, Frank (2003)

The Cast, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Regina Spektor, Far (2009)

Amy Winehouse: The Final Goodbye

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Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #22 ("Aidan Bell, Essential or Ephemeral?",16/09/2020) manually (Size: 36MB, 50 minutes duration).

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Steve Litchfield and Ted Salmon with Aidan Bell

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Discussion & Links
Duncan Robertson on Portishead
Mike LaTorre on Samantha Fish - Fil from Wings of Pegasus
Deep Purple Whoosh! - CD - Vinyl - History of Lineup - Taster Video
John Cooper's Albums of the 90's
Postmodern Jukebox - Bawitdaba
Camel's Rajaz
Alan Parsons - A Valid Path
Sky's Toccata
Mark Knopfler's Night in London

Guest's Six Pick
Lonestar (Greatest Hits) - I'm Already There
John Barry - The Beyondness of Things
Joachim Goerke - Danke
Alan Parsons - On Air
JS Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Chair by Hunika - Several Tracks

Tech Matters
Presonus Studiolive AR12c
Adam T7V
Behringer K10S
Sony WH-1000X M3

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #21 ("The Naughty Nineties!",27/07/2020) manually (Size: 26MB, 37 minutes duration).

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Discussion & Links
Fleetwood Mac Co-Founder Peter Green Dies Aged 73

Q Magazine to Fold

Bob Dylan's 39th album Rough And Rowdy Ways

John Cooper on Pomplamoose - Martin Miller

1990's Feature
Neil Young - Freedom (1989)

Marillion - Brave (1994)

Oasis - What's the story, morning glory (1995) - Standing on the Edge of Noise

Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)

Madonna - Ray of Light (1998)

Dido - No Angel (1999)

Queen - Innuendo (1991)

Enya - Shepherd Moons (1991)

Roger Waters - Amused to Death (1992)

Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)

Bjork - Debut (1993)

UB40 - Promises and Lies (1993)

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell (1994)

Portishead - Dummy (1994)

Terrorvision - How to Make Friends and Influence People (1994)

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)

Ian Hunter - The Artful Dodger (1996)

Eels - Beautiful Freak (1996)

Garbage - Version 2.0 (1998)

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #20 ("The Romantic Eighties?",29/04/2020) manually (Size: 23MB, 34 minutes duration).

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Discussion & Links
Digital Remasters, Ripping and Curating
iTunes - AirPods - Huawei FreeBuds 3
Miley Cyrus - Wish You Were Here
Bill Withers Dies at 81
Rick Wakeman - Country Airs, Sea Airs, Night Airs
Pink Floyd Streaming Gigs Each Week on YouTube
Kathy Muir for Red Cross and NHS
Chris Kelly on Santana with While My Guitar Gently Weeps

1980's Feature
Roxy Music - Like a Hurricane (Roxy Music)

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #19 ("Bjorn Again Miley!",02/12/2019) manually (Size: 31MB, 48 minutes duration).

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Recommended Listening
Pink Floyd: Later Years 1987-2019 - CD Highlights Version

Miley Cyrus Radio 1 Set

Beautiful Freaks, Eels

Piano Circle Songs, Francesco Tristano

Room 29, Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales

Remember Us to Life, Regina Spektor

Careless Love, Madeleine Peyroux

Benny Andersson, Piano

Fargo, Series 3 Soundtrack

Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul, Dexy's Midnight Runners

Genesis, Seconds Out

How I Listen
ROCKJAW T5

Marshall Major II Bluetooth

HUAWEI FreeBuds 3

Apple AirPods

Spotify

BBC Radio 2

Google Play Music

Download Chewing Gum for the Ears #18 ("Tim Evans, Synth Symphony",16/11/2017) manually (Size: 35MB, 61 minutes duration).

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