Junk Filter Podcast

YouTube video by bisonrav Prefab Sprout - Cars and Girls 1988 French TV

On the new @junkfilterpod.bsky.social, part 3 of the Prefab Sprout retrospective; the critic @briceezell.bsky.social is my special guest for a deep dive into their third album "From Langley Park to Memphis", the one that Sproutpilled me.

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YouTube video by matiguri Prefab Sprout - Nightingales (12" Version)

Part 3 of the Prefab Sprout series will be about “From Langley Park to Memphis”: their biggest hit, and certainly an influence on the evolution of Japanese City Pop in the nineties. Out in a few days!

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Bob (Leonardo Di Caprio) being hugged by his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) at the dinner table in One Battle After Another (PT Anderson, 2025)

Recording a show tonight about yet another banger by a director who has never really missed.

Out in a few days!

YouTube video by james tuivanu Prefab Sprout - Knock On Wood

Prefab Sprout invented Vaporwave in 1988...

The next episode of the Sproutseries will be about their forward-thinking pop album "From Langley Park to Memphis"

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YouTube video by PrefabSproutVEVO Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down (Live from Wogan, 1985)

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225: Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen (with Erin Vanderhoof) | Jesse Hawken Get more from Jesse Hawken on Patreon

The best band you may not have ever listened to: it's time to improve your life!

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Publicity photo for Prefab Sprout's 1985 album "Steve McQueen" (aka "Two Wheels Good" in North America): Neil Conti, Martin McAloon, Wendy Smith and Paddy McAloon

The Prefab Sprout series continues with a deep dive into their second album, 1985's "Steve McQueen" with special guest Vanity Fair's Erin Vanderhoof (@vanderhoofy.bsky.social)! A wonderful conversation about one of the greatest pop albums ever recorded; an episode designed to Sproutpill you! (1/2)

YouTube video by VHYES Prefab Sprout - Appetite - Live at Sanremo Music Festival 1986

Of the many topics discussed on the upcoming deep dive into Prefab Sprout’s “Steve McQueen” is their massive popularity in Italy (including being invited to perform at the Sanremo music festival in 1986!)

Out in a couple of days!

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YouTube video by shrew972 paddy mcaloon - nightingales

Out in a few days. Part 3 will be about “From Langley Park to Memphis”, in December

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YouTube video by Infinity Prefab Sprout - Bonny (Live in Munich 1985)

Part 2 of the podcast’s Prefab Sprout miniseries concerns 1985’s “Steve McQueen” which turned 40 this summer, one of the greatest pop records of the decade and which still sounds fresh. youtu.be/H7sd8aV11rc

YouTube video by PrefabSproutVEVO Prefab Sprout - Johnny Johnny (Live from The Tube, 1986)

Coming next week to the podcast: part 2 of the Prefab Sprout miniseries

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Thank you!

221: Prefab Sprout: Swoon (with Rob Stammitti) | Jesse Hawken Get more from Jesse Hawken on Patreon

The Prefab Sprout miniseries is underway!
On episode 1, we start at the beginning: Rob Stammitti @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social discusses their early singles and their challenging debut “Swoon”, a post-punk spin on Bacharach and Broadway no one was expecting in 1984
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YouTube video by Prefab Sprout - Topic Cue Fanfare

A few songs on their debut are about Paddy McAloon rinsing his competitors in the UK music scene, this is what I mean about declaration of intent, “playing for blood as grandmasters should”. But it ain’t bragging if you can back it up!

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Cover of the first single by Prefab Sprout “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)” (1982)

Album cover for Prefab Sprout’s 1984 debut LP “Swoon”

The wheels are turning on the Prefab Sprout miniseries on the podcast: Part 1 will be about their origins, key early singles and their ambitious 1984 debut / declaration of intent “Swoon”. Recording next week!

YouTube video by Maybe I'll Move to Mars Prefab Sprout - Johnny Johnny (1985) (Instrumental)

They wrote a song called “Goodbye Lucille #1” that never mentions Lucille, and when it was released as a single for “Steve McQueen” the label made them call it “Johnny Johnny”. Instrumental version so you can behold how tight this band was.

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YouTube video by sproutnet Prefab Sprout - Lions In My Own Garden (Live in Munich 1985)

One of the dozens of great songs that will be discussed over the series, their first single

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YouTube video by Sanremo and more Prefab Sprout – Appetite (Sanremo 1986 - 2a serata - stereo)

This fall on the podcast: a special miniseries on Prefab Sprout, one of the best bands of all time who aren’t talked about nearly enough.

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Joe Cross filming his announcement of his candidacy for mayor via social media - screens within screens throughout Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON

The latest episode is a deep dive into Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON with special guest, the film writer Del Winters (@absolutereality.blog). A spoiler-heavy discussion of a great, disturbing film.

Watch the movie first, then listen to us grapple with it!

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No immediate plans to do so!

YouTube video by Mystic Plug Records II Yvonne Elliman -- If I Can´t Have You [[ Official Video ]] HD

Patrons of the pod have a little bonus treat waiting for them on the Patreon feed.....

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The crew of the USS Churchill entering the mysterious alien spaceship hiding in Halley's Comet in LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985)

The cute-as-hell Martians from QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)

On the latest episode, Meg Shields (@theworstnun.bsky.social) returns to discuss Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE, a high-budget, overstimulated tribute to Hammer sci-fi horror, in particular 1967's QUATERMASS AND THE PIT!

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Detail from an alternate poster for LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985)

Coming soon to the podcast: released at the almost exact midpoint of the 1980s, Tobe Hooper’s LIFEFORCE still rocks 40 years later.

The great poster for LIFEFORCE with a huge eyeball looking down on the Earth “In the blink of an eye, the terror begins”

Next month on the podcast: Lordy Lordy, look who’s 40

Jason Statham from the poster for A WORKING MAN (David Ayer, 2025)

On the new premium episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social
returning guest @adamjackson95.bsky.social and I went to see A WORKING MAN. We discuss the joys of Jason Statham working with director David Ayer with their latest, and last year's THE BEEKEEPER!
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Poster art for THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974) showing Gene Hackman as wiretapper Harry Caul listening to elements of the conspiracy he’s been hired to record for mysterious reasons

On the new episode, @seantcollins.com and Julia Gfrörer (@thorazos.bsky.social) are my special guests to bid a fond farewell to Gene Hackman and to discuss in detail one of our favourite films, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION.

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Gary Bond drinking a pint while getting a classic Australian dirty look from Chips Rafferty in WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)

Just booked a guest for an episode in April about one of the greatest Australian films, directed by a Canadian: WAKE IN FRIGHT, which has just gotten a restoration, a film that infuriated the nation who didn’t like the mirror the movie held to their faces.

A shot in John Ford's THE LONG GRAY LINE (1955) showing rows and rows of West Point cadets in a cathedral. Ford innovated the then-new CinemaScope format to favor the Z-Axis (the depth of the image) as opposed to the height and width of a shot.

On the new Premium episode, the writer and film programmer @chriscassingham.bsky.social returns for a look at John Ford's 1955 comedy/tragedy THE LONG GRAY LINE and Ford's innovative use of the Z-Axis (the depth of the image) for a CinemaScope frame.
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YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers The Conversation (1974) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

Later this month on the podcast...

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