Show Notes: S02, E01 - Cromwelcome Back!
Agony Art is back! We're starting series 2 with a bucketload of unexplained Cromwell references, a big debate over whether or not Captain America is worthy, and a problem that will leave fans of Animal Crossing STUNNED!
Here's all the art we recommended.
(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)
Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.
Books
- The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
- Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
- American Rust - Philipp Meyer
- Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
- Three Things about Elsie - Joanna Cannon
- Yes Man - Danny Wallace
Films / TV
- Below Deck
- The Wall
- The Football Factory
- The Magic Roundabout
- Mean Machine
- Green Street
- Detroit
- Joker
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Stranger Things
- Interstellar
- Captain America: Civil War
- Lost
- Avengers: Endgame
- Shaun of the Dead
- Army of the Dead
- This Country
- Ready Player One
- Hercules
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Black Mirror
- The Thick of It
- Yes Man
- Big Little Lies
Music
- Long Hot Summer - Girls Aloud
- Three Lions - Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds
- Freed from Desire - GALA
- Down in the Valley - Squeeze
- Into the Valley - Skids
- Hots Stuff - Arsenal FC 1998
- World in Motion - New Order
- We're on the Ball - Ant & Dec
- We're Gonna Win - Bryan Adams
- Vindaloo - Fat Les
- Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) - Shakira
- Fog on the Tyne - Lindisfarne
- All Together Now - The Farm
- Golden Balls (Mr Beckham to You) - Bell & Spurling
- Sven Sven Sven - Bell & Spurling
- Meat Pie, Sausage Roll - Grandad Roberts and His Son Elvis
- Anfield Rap - Brize-E and the Anfield Posse
- (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
- This is Gospel - Panic! at the Disco
- Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
- Zero to Hero - Hercules Chorus
- Go the Distance - Roger Bart
- Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
- Big Yellow Taxi - Bob Dylan
- Big Yellow Taxi - Amy Grant
- Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows, Vanessa Carlton
A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.
Other
Corrections
We are currently unaware of any errors made in this episode. That doesn't mean we didn't make any - just that they haven't been spotted yet.
Picture above from Animal Crossing: New Horizons © Nintendo
Episode jingles and music written and performed by Agony Art © 2020-2021
