This is a show of many musical opinions
No softball interviews, no book-sellers, and no KISS talk.
What Makes Us Different
We are four guys that never grew up in the era of groundbreaking arena music. Vinyl to our generation is manufactured nostalgia. Our contemporaries are the likes of Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Ke$ha, and others. Not that there’s anything wrong with them. Or KISS. We’re just trying to keep some of the most groundbreaking, cross-generational artists in the conversation, completely divorced from nostalgia.
We’re not here to kiss bands’ butts.
We’re intentionally critical, because in 2020 and beyond, we have the possibility of listening to anyone, at any time, queued up from the sound of our voice. And the bad makes the great even better.
The Format of Our Show
We cover artists with 10+ studio albums.
Rock and roll, metal, pop, we’ll cover it all. If their work spanned generations and once lit the sky, we’ll cover them. And in between, our team takes turns bringing artists without such catalog for a one-off special show, hoping to introduce the others to quality new music.
We don’t cover live albums.
Yes, some of the bands we’ve covered and will cover in our podcast are known for their live performances, or even live albums. But with so much work to cover, we abide pretty strictly by the generally-accepted band studio discography of original music.
We’re making a movie on each album.
We skip nothing. Track-by-track, album-by-album, we cover the highs and the lows. And honestly, some of the “low points” have been some of our downright, hit-the-table-laughing best comedy. Not that we’re trying to be funny. We’re not MST3k either. The journey explores the full path a band took, and makes for a satisfying ending.
Love It or Flush It
Buy it, or terminate it.
Each of our shows follow a similar format. We start by giving our ratings out of 10, and quick reviews. Then, we go track by track, discussing and debating the highs and lows. Next, “7 for the Buy”. Chris, The Architect, gives each of us album trivia, and the first to 3 correct gets an extra buy, or terminate, for the ultimate playlist.
We rate each and every song.
Love, flush, buy it for your playlist, and one song to be terminated from existence. Whether it’s Chris terminating Van Halen’s biggest hit “Jump”, or Mark loving the one-eyed opossum of 5150’s “Inside”, or Kevin flushing nearly all of Syd Barret’s contributions to the world, this section closes our show and has produced some of our most hilarious moments on record.
Creating the definitive best-of playlist.
Each show is a discovery. A new appreciation for a certain track, a found gem, a stock on the rise. For each album, each of us buys one song to assemble into a unique public playlist, that each seeks to be a more complete way to introduce a new listener to the artists we cover.
