Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We return after another longer than anticipated gap! We discuss our second favourite albums, our Spotify Unwrapped (and Apple's equivalent) for 2025, the ongoing effects of aging, and some controversial statements.

Content Warnings: some explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2026/02/06/episode-49-2-a-big-and-complicated-one/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We're back! After a long busyness break, we return with out third favourite albums.

Content Warnings: explicit language, discussions of sexual health, cancer, and drugs in relation to song lyrics.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/11/14/episode-48-3-schrodingers-musical/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

Four: the magic number plus one. Two more albums, and two revisits of earlier bands.

Content Warnings: some explicit language and adult themes.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/08/22/episode-47-4-the-first-time-in-nineteen-years/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We're back! After a long illness and holiday-induced delay, we finally get to number five. Glen is invited to wax lyrical, and doesn't hold back.

Content Warnings: some explicit language and adult themes.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/08/01/episode-46-5-the-best-thing-that-i-can-say/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

Number 6; one before the Top 5. So we obviously love these, but not quite at that elite level. But - as is always the burning question - what do we think of each others' choices?

Content Warnings: some explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/06/20/episode-45-6-a-dip-and-a-half/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We reach number seven, having been delayed by semi-professional football (Charlton's appearance in the League 1 Playoffs). One album is a staple of easy listening, and the other - if anything - is exactly the opposite.

Content Warnings: some explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/05/23/episode-44-7-the-amulet-of-fomo/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

Number eight! If you didn't enjoy the political bent of one of last episode's bands, hang in there for another episode. We listen to and discuss one of the best loved and best selling albums in history, and James has to listen to metal again. That's the good stuff.

Content Warnings: some explicit language, brief mention of adult themes.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/05/09/episode-43-8-about-a-potato/.

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Welcome to Fifty by Two, a podcast about music where two friends with very different tastes count down their top fifty albums.

We plough on and reach number nine in the countdown. Apologies for the sound quality in this one, it's not to the usual standard.

Content Warnings: some explicit language.

Full show notes, transcript, and content warnings available at https://50by2.net/2025/04/18/episode-42-9-there-doesnt-seem-to-be-any-fires/.

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