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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E173 - Top 5 Metallica Songs
54 min
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E172 - Top 5 Summer Albums, Part 1 (with Love T...
81 min
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E171 - Top 5 Songs About The Weather
111 min
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E170 - Top 5 Songs of 1987 (with David Gedge fr...
87 min
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E169 - Top 5 Manchester Albums
79 min
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E168 - Top 5 New Wave Albums, Part II (with Pet...
69 min
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E167 - Top 5 New Wave Albums (with Peter Godwin...
95 min
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E166 - Top 5 Cover Versions (with JIM BOB from ...
83 min
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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