Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative...

Only Three Lads is a lively podcast celebrating the Golden Age of Alternative Music from the '70s, '80s & '90s. Join Uncle Gregg, Brett Vargo, and a variety of ”Third Lads” as we share our Top Fives, stories, and news about the music we love, and have a lot of fun along the way! Whether you‘re into indie, punk, new wave, Britpop, power pop, synth pop, shoegaze, grunge...or whatever...there is going to be something for you to discover and love. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.

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E165 - 2nd Annual O3L Hall of Fame Induction Ce...
53 min
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E164 - Top 5 Garage Rock Songs (with Tony Valen...
98 min
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E163 - Top 5 'Girl' Songs (with Debora Iyall fr...
71 min
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E162 - Cruel World 2023 Special
62 min
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E161 - Top 5 Reggae Albums
62 min
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E160 - Top 5 Female Vocal Songs (with HEAVENLY!)
113 min
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E159 - Top 5 Scottish Songs of the '90s (with K...
106 min
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Bonus Episode: An O3L Guide to Record Store Day
27 min
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E158 - Label Spotlight: Top 5 Sire Albums (with...
107 min
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E157 - Top 5 Jangle Pop Songs
80 min
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E156 - Top 5 Best Sequenced Albums (with Jan Bu...
We make sure everything is in its right place this week, because we're talking about the albums with the best track sequencing. Like a great book or movie, a great record has an artistically satisfying beginnin...
134 min
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E155 - Top 5 Albums of 1978 (with Jim Basnight ...
This week, we take a look back at the incredible albums of 1978. In a year when Uncle Gregg was just playing with his squeezebox and Brett was gettin' down to Sesame Street Fever, our Third Lad Jim Basnight was right in the thick of the Seattle musi...
117 min
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O3L - E154 - Top 5 Vince Clarke Songs
When it comes to Vince Clarke, we just can't get enough (was that too obvious?).  So "don't go" anywhere (how 'bout that one?)! Born Vincent John Martin on July 3, 1960 in South Woodford, Essex, England, Vince Clarke is a classically trained musician...
59 min
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E153 - Top 5 Animal Songs (with Graham Kemp fro...
  This week, we unleash the beasts and spotlight songs that reference animals in the title...for example, the 1997 UK Top 40 hit "Hello Tiger" by Scottish lo-fi indie rock band band Urusei Yatsura. It's a happy coincidence, then, that our Third Lad ...
97 min
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E152 - Top 5 Spacy Songs
Oh my stars!  This week, we get totally far out as we discuss some of our top songs of the era with a space theme.  It's totally out of this world. We cover a lot of ground...or space, as the case may be, since we determined that we've traveled hundr...
75 min
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E151 - Top 5 Four Letter Words (and Uncle Gregg...
#$@% yeah, it's another ^#%* episode of Only Three Lads!  And it's Uncle Gregg's $#!@-tastic birthday, and he'll ^@$& if he wants to! This week, we use a lot of four letter words...but it's not nearly as tawdry as you think.  We're covering songs wit...
77 min
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E150 - Top 5 Album Deep Cuts 1980-84, Volume II...
For our landmark 150th episode, we bring you an episode that made Brett so giddy that he nearly piddled.  That's right, folks, our Third Lad this week is none other than Phil Wilson from seminal UK indie pop band The June Brides.   During their initi...
97 min
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E149 - Top 5 Trios (with the Monkey Power Trio)
Three is a magic number, yes it is...and good thing it is, because this week we take a look at our top musical trios of the O3L era. Appropriately enough, our Third Lads are The Monkey Power Trio (who are actually five guys, but we only got three of ...
111 min
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E148 - Top 5 Songs of 1985 (with Bob Collins & ...
A-HA!  We go "back to the future" to 1985 to discuss our Top 5 Songs from that incredible year.  In many ways, 1985 was the heart of the BIG 80s...big hair, big, loud day-glo imagery, big booming snare drums, big synth sounds, big hits.  On the other...
119 min
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E147 - Top 5 UK Glam & Glitter Songs (with Jeff...
Hey, all you young (and not-so-young) dudes. electric warriors, starmen, and foxes on the run!  If UK glam rock is your bag, then you'll definitely want to feel this noize and get it on with these 20th century boys.  Put on your electric boots and mo...
99 min
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E146 - Top 5 Guitar Riffs (with Photographer Ma...
What's the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase "guitar riff"? Big, stadium filling, wall-rattling riffs like "Smoke On The Water", "Whole Lotta Love", "Iron Man" or "Brown Sugar"? Well, even if they're not as instantly recognizable as ...
82 min
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E145 - Top 5 EPs & Mini-Albums (with PAUL HANDY...
Hurrah!  It's a brand new O3L, where we discuss our Top 5 EPs & Mini-Albums with singer/songwriter Paul Handyside.  We love the EP, or Extended Play, perched somewhere in between a traditional single and a full length album.  Sometimes they compile a...
84 min
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E144 - Top 5 Bowie Songs (with Julian Shah-Tayler)
It's time to kick off our 4th Golden Year in Fashion!  For our Season Premiere, the two not-so-Young Americans (uhhhhh, Dusty Satellites & Dani Turquoise) are joined by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Julian Shah-Tayler.  If it wasn'...
112 min
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O3L Flashback - E55 - Top 5 Guitar Heroes (with...
As we get ready for Season 4's launch, take a journey back to some of our earliest episodes during O3L Flashback Week!  We conclude our flashback series by bringing our most popular episode yet back into circulation, the "main" episode of our three p...
99 min
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O3L Flashback - E50 - Top 5 Debut Albums (with ...
As we get ready for Season 4's launch, take a journey back to some of our earliest episodes during O3L Flashback Week!  We had to do something cool for our 50th episode, and we can't think of anything cooler than having the Queen of Cool, Vanessa Bri...
82 min