Long Play with Conk
A celebration of the album, proving that any album can be a classic. Conk talks to a new (funny) guest every week about an album they LOVE (or maybe hate idk, whatever) and why it should be considered a classic (or not).
Songs on Loop with Conk
Intro Song: Strange Overtones - David Byrne
Sometimes Conk gets stuck on a song and has to play it over and over and over again, sometimes hundreds of times, before he's done with it. Here are 10 examples of this. Enjoy.
Songs Featured:
Darlings - Susanne Sundfør
Soave Sia Il Vento - Mozart
Hot Dreams - Timber Timbre
Blessin’ Me - Red Hearse
Give Up The Ghost - Radiohead
This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies
My One And Only Love - Paul McCartney
Coma - Big Thie...
Bat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf with Rebel Star
THE highest selling album in Australia's history. THE Rebel Star. A Conk.
7 gargantuan tracks that sit 5 floors above over-the-top. A classic that took a LOT of convincing to get recorded and released.
This episode may feature a phone call from a grandmother, a whole lot of Meat Loaf and a full rendition of a 7 minute track by Rebel and Conk. It's a fun one.
Let Go by Avril Lavigne with Bel Anderson Hunt
It's time to Let Go. The always predictable Bel Anderson Hunt shares more than one story of a song from this album being sung at someone to spite them. It's a real doozy.
The Sunset Tree by The Mountain Goats with Olly Lawrence
The ninth of MANY MORE albums by The Mountain Goats. The wonderful Olly Lawrence introduces Conk to this iconic and prolific body of work and it is great.
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk with Tricksy Collins
Daft Punk's final album. With the finest comedian.
Stories of small towns in New South Wales, firm boundaries for music listening with families and open top driving in Los Angeles, this truly is an episode of Long Play.
Conk's PERSONAL 1 Hit 1ders
It's just Conk! He's in Perth with no way of editing the podcats he has with him! How has this happened???
Conk shares some of his PERSONAL 1 hit wonders (Artists where, for some reason, he only listens to one of their songs and nothing else by them)
Full Spotify playlist here https://open.spotify.com/playlist/10372uuq5RKLAnrGZsrCAt?si=D_SSiIKNQc2s0Bjjvg9b-g&pi=D4gxhVpgQKGin
Song featured:
Do I Disappoint You - Rufus Wainwright
Cough Cough - Everything Everything
Of All The Things We've Made - Orchestral Manoeuvres In T...
The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan with Jackson Eather
She rose. She fell. She's from the midwest (the eastern section of the United States of America). She's a princess. But what does Jackson Eather think about it all??? Is it the best pop debut of the last 20 years???????? Is it alllll rise???
Conk has definitive answers for this. And now so will you. So strap in, get knee deep in the passenger seat, and enjoy.
Little Dark Age by MGMT with Jett Bond
Jett ushers in the Little Dark Age. A monument to the 2 weeks in 2018 that Jett got into music in a really big way. MGMT (formally The Management????) are spending too long looking at their phone, love their friend James and think their partner is working out too much! What an album! Listen to Conk and Jett yack it up only on the latest episode of Long Play with Conk (this podcast ehhe).
Analogue Players In A Digital World by Showtek with Jeromaia Detto
That stuffy old geezer, Gerald from 47B, doesn't know good music when it hits him across the chest, displacing his ribs forever.
HARDSTYLE. Jeromaia Detto throws Conk in the deep end, changing their life forever. Tinnitus is a condition that affects many people.
You will be muzzing out HARD to this one. Enjopy responsibly.
Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold with Samuel Roberts
IT'S SAMUEL ROBERTS NIGHTMARE AHHHHHHHHHH
The devilish cabaret star is BACK to discuss the tragic, hyper emotional Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold, which just happens to be one of Conk's favourites from their teenage years. WOW
Conk's 2024 in Music
Conk will show you the songs that meant the most to them in the year of 2024.
Get it in ya gob.
It would be so helpful if I listed the songs here but I'm gonna be late for work. I'll update this description tonight with the full list.
The Positions by Gang of Youths with Nick Robertson
It's only Christmas Day itself and here to talk all things Gang of Youths is your favourite storyteller photographer's favourite storyteller photographer, Nick Robertson @nickmickpics
HOOO WEEEE it's an album alright. Stop reading this and listen to it.
GET OUT OF HERE!
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette with Mel McGlensey
Can ya swallow that??? It's Jagged Little Pill! WHOAAAAA. Alanis Morissette's first global album release, the 33 million seller, the album that defined a generation.
Conk is joined by Mel McGlensey to discuss this album, that is very near and dear to her. She listened to it on a walk MAN!
Follow @longplaywithconk on instagram for all updates and reels etc on the pod yay.
Sam's Town by The Killers with William Boyd
Sam's Town would be "one of the best albums in the past twenty years", and also that it would be "the album that keeps rock & roll afloat." - Brandon Flowers
Is the sophomore slump a real thing?? Are 2nd albums doomed to fail?? William Boyd joins Conk on a trip to Sam's Town, Las Vegas to find out exactly that.
When You Were Young etc
portraits by Greyson Chance with Jake Stewart
Buy tickets to Long Play 2024:
https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2024/conk-long-play-2024/melbourne/carlton/tickets
It’s boy genius Greyson Chance! Thrust to fame at 13 for a Lady Gaga cover on YouTube, signing to Ellen Degeneres’s record label then falling out and making independent records, including this one! portraits.
Jake Stewart joins Conk to chat it out through laughs, tears, sweat, blood, piss and shit. Is it a classic?? They all are!, that’s the point. Anyway, this one is fun.
Continuum by John Mayer with Ashley Apap
It's John Mayer at the height of his hatred for TMZ. He's thinkin' about time and how to spend it. It's Continuum. WITH THE INCREDIBLE ASHLEY APAP.
Conk and Ashely discuss the album whilst interrupting each other every 3 seconds with some loose word association. Is it a classic? Well, that'd be spoiling the fun then wouldn't it.
I'm Your Man by Leonard Cohen with Ben Volchok
Long Play 2024 LIVE SHOW - A recap of the year of music that was. December 4 and 5. Tickets here:
https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2024/conk-long-play-2024/melbourne/carlton
Is Ben Volchok your man?? He's been just hanging out in the studio for a few days since the record.. Can someone pick him up please? He's just a guy with a mouth full of banana. and THAT'S a reference you can enjoy after listening to this ep all about Leonard Cohen's album I'm Your Man.
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac with Samuel Roberts
An album so niche you've probably never even heard of it.
Conk, joined by the ever delightful Samuel Roberts, bravely argues that Rumours by Fleetwood Mac should be considered a classic. Hopefully they can convince you by the episode's end.
Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads with Elyce Phillips
BIG SUIT'S COMIN'
Despite using the big suit as the outfit for the Long Play live show and cover art for this very podcast, Conk has never seen or heard Stop Making Sense. That is until the incredibly creative and hilarious Elyce Phillips brings it in to discuss today!
Interesting concert film? Autistic jubilance? Does Conk love it or hate it?? The answer to these questions and more (like, does Elyce Phillips have any relation to the screwdriver head?) all in this weeks episode of Long Play.
What joy, what fun, what how when...
Some Nights by fun. with Gemma Caruana
CONK chats with Gemma Caruana for the very first time, despite their 6 year long romantic and sexual relationship.
They discuss 2012's Some Nights by fun.. (the full stop in the name plus one to end the sentence) They also just kind of go over fun.'s entire history as a band as they only have 2 albums, so you will know everything about fun. by the end of this episode.
