Genesis can’t dance. We can’t dance either 🕺 So let’s travel back to 1991 & revisit the group’s final studio album with solo superstar Phil Collins - ‘We Can’t Dance’ (1991) 🎤 ✂️ 🎧 Hosts Stephen and Paul were listeners of the album on original release. Both thought it an overlong (CD bloated) disappointment compared to the band’s previous release ‘Invisible Touch’ (1986) 💿 Do they like it more now? 🤔 Can they improve it by reducing its runtime to less than 50-minutes? ⏰ There’s some great tunes on there like the title track, Jesus He Knows Me & No Son of Mine 🎵 Will they make the TTMF Supercut? 🤷 There’s also time to critique the album, share Genesis facts, discuss seeing the band live, look at their sales figures, and revisit 1991 📰 Hit play 🟢 It’s time for Trimming The Musical Fat ▶️ 00:00 Genesis interview - setting the scene 01:08 Titles 01:25 Show introduction 02:27 Level of fandom 04:32 Tale of the tape - album facts & figures 06:10 We Can’t Dance TV promo 06:20 Critical reception & sales info 08:11 Phil Collins interview 08:30 Trim the Talk 14:27 UK TVAM band interview 16:29 Album art discussion 18:16 Selecting the songs i 19:13 Mike Rutherford interview 19:38 Selecting the songs ii 23:05 Mike Rutherford discusses I Can’t Dance 23:26 Selecting the songs iii 30:53 Genesis in the studio recording ‘Hold on my Heart’ 31:22 Selecting the songs iv 34:08 Top selling Genesis members’ solo albums 35:37 Selecting the songs v 38:46 Top news stories of 1991 39:05 Selecting the final songs i 41:42 Genesis discuss “Irish” 42:46 Selecting the final songs ii 46:26 Top selling Genesis members’ solo singles 48:49 Discussing the songs that didn’t make the cut 51:30 Joke of the pod 52:14 Revealing the TTMF Supercut of We Can’t Dance 53:43 The Final Question 58:49 Outro 59:14 Closing credits 59:42 Phil Collins joke Thanks for watching/listening 👂 👁️ ☕️ Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh /  💻 Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com /  📧 Email us - [email protected] /  👋 Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 /  📺 Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A /  📱 TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

This will knock you off your feet! 👣 We’re back for another episode of Trimming The Musical Fat 🎧 ✂️ Hosts Paul, Stephen and regular guest Davie Melon, take on another classic double album to ‘improve it’ by reducing its runtime to less than 50-minutes 🕰️ And what a task they have. The album in question is Stevie Wonder’s Grammy winning, multi-million selling - Songs in the Key of Life (1976). Home to classics like As, Sir Duke, I Wish and Isn’t She Lovely 👶 That’s 21 songs and a 205 minute run-time (double album and bonus EP) 💿 💿 💿 Which tracks will make the TTMF Supercut? Listen now to find out 👂 Also, we find time to critique the album, share SITKOL facts, discuss seeing Stevie live, look at his sales figures, and revisit 1976 (news stories, popular songs & movies) 🎵 📰 🎥 Isn’t it lovely ☺️ Hit play 🟢 It’s time for Trimming The Musical Fat! Thanks for watching/listening 👂 👁️ Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh /  Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com /  Email us - [email protected] /  Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 /  Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A /  TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

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What ‘old’ songs became uber-famous after being used in popular movies? Podcast hosts Stephen & Paul get together to pick 10 of their favourites & share a few facts about them. So, look out for classic tracks from the likes of Ghost, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, Top Gun & Sleeping With The Enemy. Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

Hi. How are you? We hope you had a good festive season & are looking forward to what 2024 has to offer. Yeah, we know. We’ve been quiet lately. But…Join us for this short teaser as we look ahead to the music, movies & social media episodes/content that we have in store for you this year. Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

It’s the penultimate episode of our Bruce Springsteen side-series as we take a look at The Boss’s albums from 1975 to 1987 to create the ultimate under 50-minute Bruce singles collection from that period. How do you follow the biggest album of your career? You go against the grain and record an album almost solely by yourself focussing on relationship struggles. That album is ‘Tunnel of Love’ (1987), which features the singles ‘Brilliant Disguise’ & ‘Tougher Than The Rest’. Joining us sailing down the tunnel is regular guest Davie Melon. And, travelling all the way from the US to join us, is Bruce super-fan and award winning writer Renee James*. Interesting fact: Renee got to meet Bruce in 1978! Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica * Renée A. James As a versatile and award-winning writer (PA Press Association), her columns and articles have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Morning Call, The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Hartford Courant, Jewish World Review, The Women’s Quarterly, and The Huffington Post. She built a diversified career around communications, in positions that encompassed writing and marketing through print, broadcast and digital media. Prior to her retirement, she served as Marketing Director for The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the oldest Bach Choir in America.  She spent many years in publishing, where she launched new marketing programs and communication projects for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including MSN, Walmart, Hilton, Hallmark, Nissan, Anheuser-Busch, Merck, Mead Johnson, Nestle and many others, managing the production of newsletters, social media content, e-newsletters, videos, infographics, websites, and books and magazines.   She distinctly remembers hearing "Saint in the City" for the first time in 1976, and has listened to and enjoyed Bruce Springsteen's music ever since.  [email protected] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

‘Spit Out The Bone’ & open your ears 👂 🦴 We’re back for another episode of fine album trimming ✂️ Today, we take on the tenth studio album by metal Gods Metallica - ‘Hardwired…to Self-Destruct’ 🤟 A double album from 2016 💿 💿 An album regarded by podcast co-host Stephen, and guest Bryan Borthwick, as their finest in over 25 years…but too long 🕰️ 🗓️ Which tracks will make the under 50 minute single vinyl TTMF Supercut of ‘Hardwired’? It’s title track? Atlas, Rise!? Moth into Flame? 🔥 Listen now to find out 🎧 The guys also find time to critique the album, share ‘Hardwired’ facts, discuss seeing the band on this tour, and tell a Metallica joke or two. ‘Dream No More’, it’s finally here 🛑 Hit play. It’s time for Trimming The Musical Fat! Thanks for watching/listening. Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

Finally, the last episode of the podcast we recorded whilst travelling around Scotland on the North Coast 500 route earlier this year. In it, we discuss getting to the top of mainland UK, nearly being stranded, and what our trip highlights are. Let’s not forget the music! We also share our final 3 songs by Scottish artists we believe are great! Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

“Glory days, well they'll pass you by”. Podcast co-host Stephen has gotten into Bruce Springsteen in a big way this year (2023). So much so that he’s corralled friend and lifelong Boss fan Davie Melon into joining him for a Springsteen side-series covering his studio output from 1975 to 1987. So join them on their aural adventure from ‘Born to Run’ to ‘Tunnel of Love’ as they critique and rank each album, and create the ultimate under 50 minute, single vinyl Springsteen singles collection. In this, the fifth episode, we revisit Springsteen’s seventh album, by some margin his greatest commercial success - ‘Born in the USA’ (1984). The Boss sold over 29M copies of the album & scored 7 top ten US hit singles from it, including his biggest seller ‘Dancing in the Dark’. Despite its huge success, do Stephen & Davie think the album is on par with Springsteen’s previous releases? Are there any non-singles which deserve more attention? What do they think of each single and where would they rank them? Listen now to find out. Also, look out for archive interview clips, promos and album facts. Come back next month for ‘Tunnel of Love’ (1987). Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message

It’s finally here! The last (?) ever Beatles song. It’s called ‘Now and Then’, and it was released yesterday (2nd Nov, 2023). Beatles fans Paul & Stephen had to get together to discuss this exciting event. So, here they are! What do they think of ‘Now and Then’? Is it better than John Lennon’s original demo? How does it compare to ‘Free as a Bird’ and ‘Real Love’? Would they like these songs to be revisited and given the same AI treatment? Listen now to find out. Like the podcast? Why not show your appreciation by buying Paul & Stephen a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trimmingthh / Podcast website - trimmingthemusicalfat.com / Email us - [email protected] / Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/274805337346926 / Check out our YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm_P5WlRZ0i3tR3jEavD_5A / TikTok - @trimmingthemusica --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ttmf/message