It's Matt's/my 41st birthday! To close out the weekly run, long-time friend of the show Colin Jackson-Brown takes over the host's chair to count down the UK number one single on 13 October for every year of Matt's/my life, from Jennifer Rush in 1985 to Taylor Swift in 2025!
 
In this episode:

• How a number one took 15 weeks to climb in 1985, and minutes in 2025
• Bryan Adams' 16 weeks at the top, and Colin's Robin Hood bow-and-arrow summer
• Why Sleeping Satellite is really about the end of the space race
• Take That, Robbie Williams and the songwriters behind the curtain
• Colin finally having to talk about Simply Red
• Candle in the Wind 97 and the end of Cool Britannia
• Billie Piper versus Britney Spears
• The Sugababes, Cathy Dennis and some of the best pop singles the UK has produced
• The wilderness years: siloed algorithms and how you can miss a decade of number ones
• Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and more!

Host: Colin Jackson-Brown
Guest: Matt Latham
 
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Since Kurt North was the very first guest of Pick A Disc, he and Matt have joint hosted a few different podcasts over the nearly 8 years since. It was about ruddy time Kurt returned to pick another disc! So this time, Kurt has picked George Michael's Older.  

• How Older soundtracked Kurt's teenage years, including picking up the bass guitar for the first time and using the album as a stepping stone for his own playing
• How Fastlove hooked Kurt, the Forget Me Nots sample, and the dramatic change in George Michael's look
• The lengthy Sony legal battle behind the five-and-a-half-year gap, and how it compares with other artist vs label fights
• The album as a story, from grief on Jesus to a Child to moving on with Move On, and how it reads in hindsight
• Spinning the Wheel, You Have Been Loved and Star People, plus a run through the UK number ones of 1996 that kept George off the top
• The MTV Unplugged session, the golden age of CD single B-sides and reworked single versions, and Robbie Williams' cover of Freedom

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Kurt North

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Matt's friend Tilly is the guest, returning for the second time after 7+ years, to talk about Huecco's Assalto!

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Tilly

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Returning for her fourth episode as part of our weekly-episode-post-200-season is Meg Alford! This time she's talking about The Dance by Fleetwood Mac!

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Meg Alford

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Picking Body Talk by Robyn is the returning Chris Haigh!

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Chris Haigh

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Returning to the podcast is Kaley Roberts to talk about bbno$'s bbno$...

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Kaley Roberts

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Colin Jackson-Brown is back again! This time he's talking Eels' Electro-Shock Blues...

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Colin Jackson-Brown

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Helena Deakin returns for her sixth appearance on the podcast - this time talking about Noah Kahan's The Great Divide! 

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Helena Deakin

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EPISODE 200!

Wow. And how do we celebrate? By spending over two and a half hours with Mark Adams about one of Matt's biggest obsessions: the YouTube channel The Epic Rap Battles of History.

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Mark Adams

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A little recap of what's been happening ready for the next episode on Tuesday...

On the latest episode, Matt is joined by friend Louise MacArthur-Clare to talk about Backstreet Boys' Millennium! Along the way there's talk of marketing, ponzi schemes, big spheres and nostalgia....

Host: Matt Latham
Guests: Louise MacArthur-Clare

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