Total Rankers
Lifelong friends and music enthusiasts Toby and Donal dive deep into the canon of popular music, ranking artists, albums or songs in our fortnightly podcast. Exposure to controversial opinions masquerading as facts is guaranteed! Original theme tune by Donal Leddy
Episodes
10 episodes
Don't Believe the Hype: Overrated albums Ranked Part 2
We go onwards and upwards (or downwards?) into some of the most overhyped and overrated albums in Rock history: music revered by the critics; music rated as "important"; music that, in the words of our hosts, is just a bit pants. Or certainly n...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:00:01
Don't Believe the Hype: Overrated albums Ranked
This week, Donal and Toby go to a dark and dangerous place, and take on some of the Big Beasts of the Rock canon. We are discussing albums that are revered by the literati - worshipped by the intelligentsia - and asking two very profound questi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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57:05
Concept Albums Ranked (Part 2)
Just when you thought it couldn't get any more ludicrous. Or bombastic. Or pompous. This week, Toby and Donal pick up where they left off at the end of episode 7 to plumb the depths (or scale the heights?) and take last week's subje...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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54:53
Concept Albums Ranked (Part 1)
We finally arrive at the most maligned (and celebrated) manifestation of popular music - The Concept Album. In times of yore (pre-1980), every band had to have one, it had to be at least a double album with a gatefold sleeve, and it had to have...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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53:34
Where did our Love Go? Old loves Ranked
This week (in a slightly delayed episode), Donal and Toby go back in time to the music that they listened to and loved in younger days, to see whether the tunes, the albums, and the magic stand the test of time. Revel in such nuggets as Toby's ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:23:29
Monkeys with Typewriters Ranked
This week, Toby and Donal address the mathematical concept known as the Infinite Monkey Theorem, and apply it to Rock.The theory being: if you give enough monkeys enough typewriters and enough time, sooner or later they will produce Shakesp...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:07:19
One and Done Ranked
This week, Donal and Toby investigate some of the greatest mysteries in Rock - artists who only ever produced one album - and ask why? Sometimes the answer is only too clear... at other times confusion or tragedy intervenes. We look at the high...
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1:02:46
Threepeats Ranked
What better way to mark a third episode than to examine the greatest "three in a row" feats in popular music? Who has achieved the best run of three albums of the highest quality? And why is it such a rare occurrence? Donal and Toby investigate...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:10:44