Luke Brann

#57. This time we are joined by all round ‘muso’ and lovely Aussie larrikin Luke Brann who amongst other musical outfits bashes the shit out of a set of drums for Sydney based 4 piece ‘The Kava Kings’. Luke selects the 4th studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon entitled ‘Only by the...

Kings of Leon – Only By The Night feat. Luke Brann (Kava Kings)

Greg Gould

It’s our first podcast of 2021 and our 56th in a growing catalogue for The Golden Ducks. We are joined by Australian singer, songwriter, director and all round legend Greg Gould. Greg talks us through his incredible success stories most notably being the runner on the 2013 series of Australia’s Got Talent and garnering over...

Tina Arena – Don’t Ask feat. Greg Gould

BONUS POD. New Years Eve.  Wrapping up 2020, in the only way the Ducks know how.

BONUS – 2020 Wrap Up

Lauryn Hill

Abby Dobson

#55. Nearly 3 months since The Golden Ducks dropped our last podcast we are finally back with our 55th! On this podcast we are joined by the uber talented, very funny and super sweet Australian musical legend Abby Dobson. We dissect the debut album by Lauryn Hill ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’. We laugh, joke...

Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill feat. Abby Dobson (Leonardo’s Bride, Baby et Lulu)

Gaz Roberts

#54. We’re joined by Gaz Roberts from The Golden Ducks latest favourite outfit ‘Man &amp; The Echo’. Gaz selects the 6th studio album by The Kinks ‘The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society’ to unravel and debate whilst, amongst other things, we discuss Brexit, serial killers, sexual predators, racism and ummmm ‘Hollyoaks’. Another incredibly...

The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society feat. Gaz Roberts (Man & The Echo)

Andy Platts

Cameron Dawson

#53. For the first time ever we are joined by not one but two very special guests from British 5 piece ‘Mama’s Gun’.  We meet, greet and get to know founder and frontman Andy Platts and bass player extraordinaire Cameron Dawson.  The boys select Michael Jackson’s 6th studio album and masterpiece ‘Thriller’ as the banter...

Michael Jackson – Thriller feat. Andy Platts & Cameron Dawson (Mamas Gun)

Chris Cester

#52. We are joined by Australian music royalty and drummer of Rock band ‘Jet’ Chris Cester. We discuss him hanging with Taylor Hawkins in first class, his thoughts on the recent breakdown within his old touring pals Kasabian, knocking around and touring with The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney gate crashing him onstage, the profession that...

The Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup feat. Chris Cester (Jet)

Tom McRae

#51. Joined by English singer songwriter Tom McRae, he selects Bruce Springsteen’s 12th studio album ‘The Rising. Tom regales us with stories about being nominated for the Mercury Music Award in 2001, touring with Paul Weller, being invited to play Meltdown Festival by Scott Walker, and sharing the stage with Elliot Smith. Of course we...

Bruce Springsteen – The Rising feat. Tom McRae

As Walt Gold &amp; The Dude, pass the magic milestone of 50 pods, they take a moment to reflect on the journey so far.

BONUS – Reflections On 50 Podcasts

James Walsh

In the second part of our double episode on The Beatles masterpiece Rubber Soul, we take you through the back half of the album joined by James Walsh from Starsailor. We discuss throwing fisticuffs with the Gallagher brothers, touring with the biggest names of Rock &amp; Roll, and finally discover what the shit song is...

The Beatles – Rubber Soul feat. James Walsh (Starsailor) Part II

The Golden Ducks.  a.k.a Walt Gold &amp; The Dude, delve into musical history bringing you their meanderings on some of the greatest music albums of the ages – and the song the artist should have left off.

Discovered this show about a month ago and have been hooked. Walt and the dude are funny and give great analysis of records. I would love to hear you guys do the record Crooked Rain Crooked Rain by Pavement.

Love these guys

Shit Songs Off Great Albums

We tuck into ‘Throwing Copper’ by Alt Rock Grunge dwellers ‘Live’.   Walt Gold immediately slates, &amp; later rates this mid nineties effort whilst employing the most cliched and generalised description of your average ‘Live’ fan, whilst ‘one third French’ The Dude struggles to grasp the language of love whilst name checking the hottest siblings around...

Live – Throwing Copper

We celebrate our 25th podcast with The Beatles covering their seventh studio album ‘Revolver’. During this pod The Dude smartly revisits the meaning of what exactly is a Stone Cold Classic, Walt Gold showcases his disdain for Ringo Starr and The Golden Ducks revisit some past memories where they bonded over the most influential band...

The Beatles – Revolver

We hit up Pearl Jam’s debut ‘Ten’; and while The Dude debates the validity of bands peaking (and continues to actually sound like he knows what he’s talking about), Walt Gold critiques album covers in typically brutal fashion. Plus we revisit the battle of rakija between Australians &amp; Croatian’s at The Dude’s wedding, until we...

Pearl Jam – Ten

One of the world’s first double albums, and the culmination of Dylan’s 15 month period where he recorded 3 x albums that changed the face of music.

Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde

The 2nd album from American Rock legends Foo Fighters that catapulted the band onto the global stage. Plus, what’s the correct listening process when digesting an album, and is Dave Grohl now more famous than Kurt Cobain?

Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape

“Bowie could sing the Yellow Pages, and it’d sound amazing.” – Gold, Walt. Truer words have definitely been spoken.  However, one can’t deny the music and songs from the 24th studio album by David Robert Jones.

David Bowie – The Next Day

Damien Rice

The debut solo album by Irish singer songwriter Damien Rice is on the decks during our latest podcast. Join as we discuss why we love the Irish, and get sidetracked discussing romantic comedies, past gigs, and The Dude’s inability to remember literally anything.

Damien Rice – O

We revisit the untitled 4th classic by Led Zeppelin. Discussing everything from putting a bullet in a builder’s leg, starting fights with shoplifters, and creating playlists for unborn children – we finally take on board the feedback from our listeners and integrate tracks into the pod. Next stop?  World domination

Led Zeppelin – IV

Jeff Buckley

We welcome Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ to our 15th podcast.  Rugby, arms, hair, and men urinating sitting down all get a look in this ‘music’ podcast and eventually we get stuck into deciding whether ‘Grace’ is indeed a Stone Cold Classic and if so is there a shit song on it ?

Jeff Buckley – Grace

Front

We visit Billy Joel’s 11th studio album ‘Storm Front’ for our 11th podcast where we discuss amongst other things sharks, the triangle and white rappers.  Obviously .

Billy Joel – Storm Front

We visit the stone cold classic that is ‘Kind of Blue’ by Jazz icon Miles Davies.  Amongst discussing The Dude’s fondness and technique to polishing shoes, Walt Golds attempt to use the word ‘Gimp’ as vehemently as possible and an epic technical fault which The Dude somehow managed to cover up with aplomb we tackle...

Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

The 1988 debut album from Jane’s Addiction is under the microscope as we dwell on Perry Farrell’s choice of hats, Dave Navarro’s slick guitar, and Flea’s cameo on a trumpet.

Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking

Is the 1997 album from UK band The Prodigy the anti-thesis of Britpop, or was it the start of a new wave of music for electronic trance?  All that, plus one exceptional unedited gaffe…

The Prodigy – The Fat Of The Land

For our 2nd Episode, we tackle, the 2nd studio album by English rock band Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? Claimed to have sold over 22 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time, and appears on several lists of the greatest albums in rock music. As of July...

Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

Up next, N*E*R*D’s ‘Fly or Die’, where we discuss the most pressing topics including The Golden Ducks ascent into the Hong Kong podcast chart, our wives disdain for our podcast, and The Dude genuinely compares his song writing to that of N*E*R*D (which has to be heard to be believed).   Get on it.

N*E*R*D – Fly or Die

For podcast number 20 we are joined by our old sparring partner Ted Harns who nominates The Streets classic ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’.  Join us as Walt Gold discusses the longevity of a certain persons receding hairline, The Dude name checks his favourite hair products, how ridiculously prepared Ted Harns is to discuss...

The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come For Free

For our 18th podcast we flash back to 1989 and The Stone Roses eponymous debut.  Covering all imperative topics this week for example what the actual description for a bathroom cabinet is (ummm a bathroom cabinet), Walt Gold’s yawning getting out of control and The Dude drops a bombshell about this album that outrages Walt...

The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

It’s all about Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ for our 14th podcast.  Whilst constantly name checking our old favourite haunt ‘Dirt Cheap CD’s’, making lofty comparisons between Pablo Picasso, Kurt Cobain (and naturally Justin Bieber), and constantly plugging someone else’s podcast, we dissect the 3rd and final studio album by the worlds most iconic grunge band.

Nirvana – In Utero

On our 24th podcast we dissect Snoop Dogg’s debut album ‘Doggystyle’. Throughout the course of the podcast TD becomes increasingly more gangster and embraces this with aplomb, WG schedules a drive by shooting for sometime in October with TD in tow and between us we swear more than we ever have done evidently enthused by the explicit lyrics on the aforementioned album. Get on it.

On our 24th podcast we dissect Snoop Dogg’s debut album ‘Doggystyle’. Throughout the course of the podcast TD becomes increasingly more gangster and embraces this with aplomb, WG schedules a drive by shooting for sometime in October with TD in tow and between us we swear more than we ever have done evidently enthused by the explicit lyrics on the aforementioned album. <br><br>Get on it.

Snoop Doggy Dogg – Doggystyle

Our 23rd podcast and this time we visit Michael Jackson’s ‘Off the Wall’. We applaud and discuss how The Dude made the Australian headlines recently, Walt Gold arrogantly denounces any album that doesn’t have an epic opener as complete rubbish and between us we discuss the very big elephant in the room concerning the King of Pop and dare we say it we get a little serious for the first time in a 20 year (or 25 according to The Dude) friendship. Get on it.

Michael Jackson – Off The Wall

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