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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 19h

Johnny O’Keefe! Col Joye! Jimmy Little! Dolly Parton! Bill Gates! (not that one) Rupert Murdoch. Manx to Mancs! The Batley Variety Club! David Bowie! Cucumber Castle! Sophia Loren! Englebert Humperdinck! Brian Epstein! Lulu! Elton John! Nina Simone! Disco Tex! The Sex-O-Lettes! Rod Stewart!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Decidedly non-Scouse accents! Magilla Gorilla! Tiny Tim! Three Dog Night! The Grunt People! A plea for clemency on the grounds of stupidity! John Peel! Dick Cunc! Ed Marimba on marimba! Dinosaurs! Shortenin’ Bread!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cucumber castle! Barry White! Uruguayan beat group Los Bulldogs! Blood, Sweat and Tears! (I wonder who played bass for them?) Josie and the Pussycats! Recurring sketches that turn up in multiple episodes! The Ordo Templi Orientiis! Tina Turner and the Ikettes! Liz Phair! Fall Out Boy! Bob Marley!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@andrewhickey.500songs.com you got a mention in the ‘Little Fish’ audience facts episode of No Such Thing As A Fish (about 11mins 30seconds in to podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/n...) about the writing of Heartbreak Hotel

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Little Fish: Pope Guilty the First

Podcast Episode · No Such Thing As A Fish · 23 August · 31min

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Frank Zappa! Lowell George! Jeff Beck! Rod Stewart! Davy Jones! (not that one) Captain Beefheart! Nick St Nicholas of Steppenwolf! Cynthia Plaster Caster! Jimi Hendrix! Van Dyke Parks! The Marquis du Sade! Davy Jones! (that one). Mary Magdalene! John Lennon! Bob Dylan! Woodie Guthrie!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Frank Zappa! Lowell George! Jeff Beck! Rod Stewart! Davy Jones! Captain Beefheart! Nick St Nicholas of Steppenwolf! Cynthia Plaster Caster! Jimi Hendrix! (Warming up for 184!)

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Just checking with @andrewhickey.500songs.com - is that Blood, Sweat and Tears, for whom Jim Fielder was a bass player?

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Jim Fielder, who was a bass player! And a bass teacher! Lee Underwood! Van Dyke Parks! Donald Fagen! Chevy Chase! Nico! Bach! Luciano Berio! Bunk Gardner! Marlene Dietrich! OJ Simpson. Sinead O’Connor! And Jim Fielder, who was a bass player!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Winnipeg’s burgeoning rock‘n’roll scene! Neil Young! Chad Allen and the Reflections! Chad Allen and the Original Reflections! Chad Allen and the Expressions! Unreliable narrators! Borrowed riffs! Pizza delivery pianists! Dvorak! And Bachman-Turner Overdrive, which I assume is a type of car engine …

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The Beach Boys! Eddie Cochran! Paul McCartney! Sun Ra! Patti Smith! The Carpenters! Kurt Cobain of Nirvana (that one)! Frank Zappa! Captain Beefheart! Huddie Ledbetter! Wrestler Captain Lou Albano! Feminist hardcore band Bi TYRANT! Neutral Milk Hotel! Wilco! Herman’s Hermits!Tiny Tim!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Bonus bonus ep! Bass player Ray Brown (not that one)! Mark Almond (that one)! Epstein! (complimentary) Oldham! More Beach Boys than the Beach Boys! Keith Moon! Terry Melcher! Dennis Wilson! Bryan Adams! Captain Sensible! Lulu! The Alan Parsons Project! (which I believe is some kind of hovercraft)

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Do you want Keith Moon wordplay explained with reference to rhotic and non-rhotic pronunciation? Of course you do. What about Miss Pamela from the GTOs? There too. Thunderclap Newman? Skinheads? The Plastic Ono Band? All there! What about the future lead singer for the Small Faces? Ah well yes …

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The St Albans Choir! Tito Burns! Bunny Lake is Missing! The Spencer Davis Group! The Alan Parsons Project! The Mike Cotton Sound! The Batley Variety Club! Queen! ZZ Top!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The St Albans Choir! Tito Burns! Bunny Lake is Missing! The Spencer Davis Group! The Alan Parsons Project! The Mike Cotton Sound! The Batley Variety Club! Queen! ZZ Top!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Sigmund Freud! The Large Hadron Collider! The World Health Organisation! Jan and Dean Meet Batman! A great falsetto singer despite all available evidence! Tiny Tim! George Adamski, a new age guru and flying saucer cultist! Rod Stewart!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Gregorian chants! Coca-Cola commercials! Andrew Lloyd Webber! Bonita Applebum! The Dogshit Album! Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2! Doctor Who benefit records! A combination of sitars, choral vocals, theremins, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Maya Rudolph!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Rod Stewart! UB-40 (derogatory)! Professor Longhair! The first Bond movie! Haile Selassie! Ukrainian progressive metal! Wynder K Frogg! Mott the Hoople! Nirvana! Theophilus Bickford! The Wicker Man! Eighteen months between seasons of Doctor Who! Rick Moranis! Twiggy! The Grateful Dead! Bobsledding!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

When there was only one set of footprints, it was the Sand People

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Dave Brubeck! Better-known musicians like Muggsy Spanier! Peanuts! Shortenin’ Bread! Brian Wilson! Small hands! Draft dodgers! Charlie Christian! Benny Goodman! Roll ‘em Pete! The Ink Spots! Bill Dogget! Booker T and the MGs! Elvis! The Kingsmen! Gossamer Wump! Taylor’s Version!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Hudie Ledbetter! The Beatles! Bob Dylan! Frank Zappa! A jazz flute solo! Michael Nesmith! Legendary accordion player Flaco Jiménez! Jerry Garcia! The Grateful Dead! Willie Nelson! Los Lobos! Non-Euclidean mathematics!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Beethoven! Mozart! Rod Stewart! The Mafia! Bogart’s Casablanca Records! Charo the Cuchi Cuchi Girl! The Electric Pigeons! Ricky T and the Satans Three! Neville Chamberlain! Nuremberg!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Rod Stewart! Benny Hill! No-hit wonders The Senators! Slade! More Rod Stewart! Joan Baez! Carmine Appice! Willie Dixon! Jake Holmes! Tabla player Viram Jasani! Bert Jansch! Booker T and the MGs! Otis Redding! Steve Cropper! Muddy Waters! Dusty Springfield! Hobbits!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wardrobe malfunctions! Joe Bloggs! Jett Powers! The Australian top ten! Bix Biederbecke! Engelbert Humperdinck! Caligula! Dorian Gray! A Lear Jet and multiple Rolls Royces! Dutch progressive rock band Focus! David Niven! Madonna! I will, for what I hope are obvious reasons, not be excerpting this.

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Several Yardbirds anecdotes, some of which may even be true! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The most tasteless folk group ever! Emergency pool construction! Jackie DeShannon’s wild rock and roll lifestyle! Multiple Rod Stewart cameos!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Gadzooks! It’s the In Crowd!! Gonks Go Beat! Cucumber Castle! A ‘different’ interpretation of Mrs Robinson! The Cherry Picker, bad even by the standards of 1970s British sex comedies! Take That! Ronan Keating!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

N: Edinburgh, UK E: Nadi, Fiji S: Weddell Sea, Antarctica W: San Francisco, USA Makes for a confusing acrostic

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Morton Feldman! Marty Feldman! Milton Friedman! Miloš Forman! Michel Foucault! Melvin Franklin! Millard Fillmore! Flanking! 4Q! Sherbet! Frolicking! Flinging! Martin Freeman! Michael Fabricant! Michael Flatley! Mia Farrow! Michael Fallon! Max Fleischer! Mariella Frostrup! Matt Fraction!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Far-out jazz! Milton Friedman! Billy Connolly! Morgan Freeman! e=mc^2! Michael Fish! neo-beatnik self-determination! Maria Félix! Sun Ra! Mister Fantastic! Robert F Kennedy! (non-derogatory) Man Friday! Pigasus! Missy Franklin! The White Album! Mod Ftewart! David Peel! Magnificent Frigatebird!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

WHITE AMERICAN BOOMER: What the $&@# is this? English folk music? This no more belongs in THE History of Rock Music than … I don’t know, Britney Spears! RICHARD THOMPSON: Hold my … hang on, hold those beers of Pegg, Bonham and Joplin [MEDIEVAL STRUMMING INTENSIFIES]

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Denis Daugherty! No relation to Denny Doherty! Emory Gordy! No relation to Berry Gordy! Classics IV! No relation to The Classics! Mamas & Papas/Soul Train! No relation to The Mamas & the Papas or Soul Train! Apparently this is the 32nd most played song of the C20th, which is spooky! But not Spooky!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Lingo the Drifter! Max Margulis! John Sebastian! Leonard Cohen! Gordon Lightfoot! Stephen Stills! Linda Ronstadt! Chelsea Clinton! Yippies! Humpback whales! The Pipes And Drums And Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards! A seven-minute song about the life and death of Che Guevara!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Elvis impersonator sound-alikes! Damn, already done. ‘Dizzy’ is a banger of a track and I only knew the Vic Reeves version. Political correctness gone mad! If you’re not subscribing to this Patreon by now I really can’t help you.

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Short’nin Bread! Fiddlin’ John Carson! Lightnin’ Hopkins! Howlin’ Wolf! The Lovin’ Spoonful! The Electric Dysentry! Dylan goes electric! The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles, and Fripp! Scottish accordion player Jimmy Shand! Lineup changes!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just as finding the piece by harmonica player John Sebastian called ‘John Sebastian plays Bach’ is tricky, web-searching for ‘Smith’ may be a challenge … here also we find P.F. Sloan, Joy of Cooking, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, and the all-female band Fanny

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Bananarama! Liberace! Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)! Six men who would mostly probably not meet contemporary unfair standards for male physical attractiveness! The Minnesota Twins! Here’s hoping!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The sequel to Shaft! A Grammy Song of the Year award ahead of (checks notes) Hey Jude and Mrs Robinson! Frank Zappa’s Hot Rats Album! Dr Seuss! If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked a Cake!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

[theme music plays] “Patreon bonus episode number 396, ‘Rockin’ the Man in the Boat’, by Mike Love” [9 and a half minutes of content warnings] “This is the worst song that has ever been recorded. I will not be playing an excerpt. Thank you very much for listening “ [theme music plays]

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Content warnings! The Lemonheads! Iggy Pop: this guy is nuts! Black gay Communist poet Langston Hughes! Fleetwood Mac! The Grateful Dead! Muhammad Ali! Acceptance speech humour from Bob Dylan! Tennille! Barry Manilow! We’re going to need a bigger skeet.

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Mike Mills! Gram Parsons! Stax! The Bangles! Yoko Ono! Geoff Emmerick! Ray Davies! Dusty in Memphis! Tav Falco! Katy Perry! A 10 minute Patreon bonus that is 1.5hrs long and covers material you’ve either never heard of or are mad that it doesn’t get a main episode. There’s no pleasing some people.

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! Vincent Price! A Kafkaesque web of bureaucracy! The Moody Blues! Doug Dragon! The Captain and Tennille! AC/DC! Barry Manilow! Zee Zo Zosi Zadfrack!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Zaphod Beeble- D’oh! It’s been done! Oh well, there’s still: several rather poor British sex comedies! The Perfumed Gardeners! Les Cousins! The poetry of Blake and Yeats! “Hoots Mon!” by Lord Rockingham’s XI! The new Englebert Humperdinck!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

The Bosnian Hornpipes! The KLF! Jethro Tull! The King of Elfland’s Daughter! The Lord of the Rings! Robert Louis Stevenson! Bowie on Sax! Sellers on Ukelele! Morris Dancing! An experimental Brechtian drama about the Napoleonic wars! Wassailing! John Barleycorn Must Die by Traffic!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Proto-karaoke! Blind Lemon Jefferson! Juneteenth! The Biden Administration! Mindful:Leadership Tips From Marcus Aurelius to Declutter and Detox Your Mind in Just 24 Seconds! Sigmund Freud! Heinlein! The least-documented year of Grateful Dead taping! Discover Yourself Through Astrology! The Munsters!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Rude boys! Skinheads! Bob Marley! A belief that of course has no historical validity! Supposedly incomprehensible lyrics! A bad synth-heavy album of new material, produced by Robert Palmer! Another episode which has likely doubled the amount of information available on an artist

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Charles Mackay! The Black and White Minstrel Show ran on British TV until 1978!? William Shatner! The gloriously named Eck Kynor! The Maharishi! Terrible human being Roman Polanski. James Buchanan!? Surely no-one will be worse than James Buchanan??

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Eastern-influenced Baroque folk! Gadzooks! It's All Happening!! Les Cousins! A guitarless guitarist! A faithful bassist! Plagiarism! David Bowie! Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte! Sir Gawain! Joanna Newsom! Johnny Marr! Bruce Loose! Kate Bush! Rod Stewart!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Cucumber Castle! Winnie the Pooh! Prince Rupert Loewenstein! The tea-drinking British chapter of the Hell’s Angels! Plato! Ned Kelly! Seven dollars for a Stones concert! George Lucas! Rod Stewart!

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deep-depths.bsky.social @deep-depths.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Uruguayan skiffle! Los Mockers! No, not the new wave Kiwis! No, not the Virginian powerpop outfit! The Uruguayan Rolling Stones! The Dukes of Dixieland! Submarino Amarillo! Candombe! Not Candomble! Thanks to Tilt for helping and manfully resisting from inserting an excerpt of ‘El cobarde universal’

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