Ranking The Iconic Seven Rock Albums From 1991 | The Podcast That Rocked - The Podcast That Rocked

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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so we'll do super chats at the end. Guys, know
what's going on. My wife is in the chat. Everyone
say hi to her. She's the best. This was a
bit of a slow new This was a bit of
a slow news week, and the new stories that drops
were either stupid or follow ups or just basic announcements.
It's nice to have a quiet week, right, or at
least in our word, because sometimes we have the crap

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weeks where everything's a disaster. So take it, yes, yes,
we'll take it over some of the bad weeks we've had.
So I pivoted and as we just started this week
that technical anniversary of the forty four days in nineteen
ninety one, where seven monumental albums came out in forty

(03:12):
four days, I think we should rank them, and that's
the topic we're going to go for and boy, oh boy,
are we going to be wrong? Wrong? Wrong, wrong? Yeah,
we're gonna start some wars today. Yes. Oh. And honestly,
this is one situation where I say, go ahead, leave comments,
that's fine, I'll we encourage it. But just keep in mind,

(03:36):
we're going to try to do our thing. We're going
to ask the chats and then we'll go from there
and everyone's going to be offended, and that's fine, but
we'll figure it out when we get there. Sound good.
I look forward to the comments and the chaos. It's
gonna be something. Please get the like button. So these

(03:57):
seven albums both use your illusions, Guns and Roses. Metallica
is self titled. Nirvana's never Mind, Pearl Jams ten Red
Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar, Sex Magic, and Soundgarden's Bad
motor Finger all came out in less than seven weeks.
This was roughly fifteen to twenty years before Rowan was born.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not that.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Ten years okay, there you go. Oh yeah, I was
way off.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's ten years and twenty years. It wasn't born twenty eleven.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm not though, I'm not fourteen. Okay, that's true. That's
very true.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, you know what, I'm working. What fourteen year old
is working full time?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Not in school? I don't know. Well, a lot of
states now are making that legal again, so actually, god topical. Okay,
all right, we're gonna talk about it. I want to
take the music, so I'm just gonna say this. Yes,
this is a brutal battle. Nineteen one was crazy for music.
So the three of us are gonna discuss the best

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we can, which we think the ranking one through seven,
I'll put it to the chat. However, I don't think
we can get all seven on here in one poll,
so I'll do like the top four and chat after
we decide ours. No one is wrong, This is just
an opinion. We're all friends. This is a preemptive stop
yelling at each other to everyone in chat in the

(05:26):
comment section.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You say that now, But I feel like at the
end of this conversation we're gonna have like we're going
like digital knives at each other's throats.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
We're gonna get get clipped and like people react to
clips on YouTube and TikTok. Look at these losers saying
this is the worst.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
So yeah, yeah, it's gonna make their own content be
like why each and every single one of these people
are wrong?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yes, so all right, does anyone have any thoughts or
anything they want to say right now as to say
worst or best at a quick glance, not saying we're
not like we don't have to go through each and
just yet. Does anyone have any thoughts for anything super
passionate about right now? Alex, I would I'm sorry, go
ahead run if you jump in. Yeah, no, sorry, I

(06:10):
didn't know we were taking turns. Uh.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I'm just gonna say it right now. Black Album just
because like I just have like a lot of like
nostalgia for that record. It's probably a joke at this point,
but it really was one of the first metal albums,
like full albums I really got into. Metallica was just
like that introductory band for me, and I just kind
of fell in love with that whole thing really, Like

(06:33):
it's not I don't really come back to it all
that often, but like when I do it just it
just feels nice, just kind of like you just feel
that nostalgia and I just enjoy it for that.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay, the Black Album is so comfy to rowin. I
love that.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Yes, yeah, it's a good album.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
I know people like I know, people like how did
Metallica when it came out?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's like, oh, you guys are selling out.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
There's some great freaking songs on that album, not even
just at our Sandman.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
The Black Album is my choice for a number one
as well, like good hands down, for sentimental reasons and
other reasons that we can dig into.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Very fair.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I'm just when this. I'm not just putting it number one.
I'm just kind of gotting things right now. See my thing. Also,
by the way, Holier than Now is one of my
favorite songs from Metallica ver, not just Black Album, but
all right, so I'm a true guitar I love that. Sure.
So here's the thing about this too. I also feel
and we can jump in, we could talk and passion

(07:28):
about each album. We don't have to know. I just
want to get some quick thoughts. I also think Pearl
Jam's ten is a huge statement of that time. This
is grunge personified and like in its purest most packaged,
perfectly album of what was going on at that timeframe.
And that's what I love about it. And that's still

(07:49):
I still think it's Pearl Jam's best and they've had
great albums since then, but you listen to ten front
to back and it's just so iconic from that time period,
from grunge, from Pearl Jam, just across the board.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Well, and this was one of those albums that really
kicked off the transition away from hair metal. And if
you talk to any of the hair metal guys about it,
or the hair metal elitists or any of the hair
band fans, they will probably tell you how much they
hate this album because of that, because it was that
that segue out of the hair metal era.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Sure, so now good.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm probably gonna get some crap from both of you.
But out of the three grunge albums that we got here,
this is the weakest one for me.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Really, Okay, it's a bad album. Yeah, I'm not going
to say you're wrong on that because look at the comparison,
like the competition for the grunge Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
To be honest, Pearl Jam has just been like, Okay,
in my book, I've never really gotten that deep into
them really, just like I just always enjoyed like Nirvana,
Soundgarden and Allison Chased a lot more.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Yeah, one, No, that's I will tell you Nirvana is
that's my favorite of the grunge and tenders here for sure.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay. Also I'm gonna bump this up to and also
I love Soundgarden to the point. I mean, people don't
know me know how much I love Soundgarden, So I
actually put this up there as well. Man, this thing
is not super smooth because Bad Motor Finger was the sophomore,
but the songs were still so perfect. Now, like when
you hear Jesus Christ pose and you listen to it

(09:26):
and you hear that animosity and like message from Chris
Cornell scream at his head off, it still sounds so
amazing and all a Bad motor thing like that with
Rusky Cage and things like that too. There's so much
good stuff on there. So Rusty Cage is probably some
of my favorite guitar RIfS of all time. Really, that
was one of the songs I got to shoot, Like
the photos behind me, that was one of them. One

(09:47):
that was playing for real and the photo pit like
the last three weeks before he passed on that final tour. Yeah,
it's like seeing that right up and it was like
all the lights and stuff. I was like, h and
he still had the chops to sing like perfectly like
he didn't age. So okay, so I put the grudge
ones up front. More, this is not any specific order yet,
So this is where we start hurting some feelings. What

(10:11):
do we think of the bottom three that we haven't
talked about yet.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'm not a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan. I
like what they did. I like the vibe you know
that they try to bring. I've never really been a
huge fan. You know, I'll jam out, I'll sing along
to the singles. I've never been a really big Chili
Peppers fan though, I never have. Okay, so that one, yeah, okay,

(10:36):
I really only know.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
But yeah, I only know like maybe like three or
four songs off this album off the top of my head.
And like with they're the hit so the ones that
everyone knows. That's kind of like my that's my relationship
with the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well. I've tried
to like listen to full albums. I can never get
into it. I just like the hits that everyone knows
and likes. Sure, and I'm not like gonna clown on

(10:59):
any one for if this is like your favorite album
of the seven.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
But like I don't know. It's just like it's just
not my vibe. Okay, that's fair. So I will say
this two points about this one about Red Hot Chili Peppers.
First of all, this and Californication I think are Red
Chili Pepper's most iconic albums in my opinion, But I
still kind of agree with both of you, like they
do not beat the top four in retrospect, and looking

(11:26):
at that, it is how big of a deal this
album was. I still don't put it above the top
four that we just posted on here, and they're not
even in order yet. So second one, wait, go ahead, good.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Well, I was just gonna say exactly what you iconic
goes for Red Hot Chili Peppers. I mean, you've got
Under the Bridge and Suck My Kiss off of that album.
Those are two of the top Red Hot Chili Peppers
songs still to this day to go yeah, and you
listen to any radio station you know that's doing current rock,
they're still gonna throw that in every couple of hours

(11:58):
and you're gonna get so sick of it. But it's
still those staples of Red Hot Chili Peppers. And so
this album was definitely like one of the quintessential Chili
Peppers albums.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sure you want to hear like a funny story that
my family has with this album.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Sure with Blood, Sugar, Secks, Magic and your family Go ahead,
rowan o, yeah, yeah, so funny.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Fun fact, my dad's very Red Hot Chili Peppers song
is given away off this album. And the only reason
that is is because during the heyday of The Simpsons,
when they were just new and I Eat Good, they
when the Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on The Simpsons,
that was the That was not only the song they played,
but also there's like this bit where UH, at most
we were.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Crusty, yeah, krusty.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
The cloud goes into uh goes into their dressing river.
It's like, oh, hey, you got a you gotta Chae's
the lyrics because it's like it's TV. It's like, oh no, wait, man,
like our our lyrics are our children. It's like the
go pound sand And he's like, well, how about instead
of what I got got to give a put it
put it in you? How about what I want to
do is hug and kiss you. Holy crap, that's a
lot better. Why didn't we do that?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Mm hmm?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
And my dad just loves that episode. Yeah, ninety Simpsons
is the best TV not just best Simpsons, but like
the top of TV and television.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
So oh yeah, seriously watches them.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like the current episodes of The Simpsons.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I don't know anyone who still talks about it, but
they still make it, and I'm baffled.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I will say this one thing I want to point
out for Guns n' Roses usual lusion one or two
ambitious definitely continued them on after Hairbetal was dying. I'll
say this one is better than two in my opinion,
I would agree, to be.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Honest, I don't think I've ever I don't think I've
ever even asked myself which of the two I prefer.
I think though, when you did tell us about this,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Well, no, I was gonna say one has November rain
and that's a huge plus. Two has my world and
that's a huge negative. True. Yeah, but so yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
I don't remember like the full albums person say for
either one, but I do remember like you Will be
Mine off too, And also I just I just really
love the guitar work off of that one. Okay, Alex, Yeah,
about that might do it for me? At the first one's.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Really I mean, of the two, I agree, Use Your
Illusion one is better. I think some of the like
Don't Cry. That one's always been one of the stick
around guns n' Roses tracks. November Rain. People still talk
about that one. What other ones are on that one?
They did like the Paul McCartney cover on Us Your
Illusion one.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
That both so yeah and well.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
The second one was the Bob Dylan cover right, yes, yeah, yeah,
it was yeah, not No one happens store. I'm pulling
it up right now. And so, I mean, Use Your
Illusion two has got civil war. That one's a banger.
I really enjoyed the Three Teeth cover that just came
out this year. That one's really good. That is an
awesome cover. If you've not checked it out yet.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Really indust surreal, it's pretty awesome.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
So and with Rowan's point, you could be Mine is
also on Use Your Usion Part two. But I think
the first one is just a little bit stronger all
the way through, and then the second one's got a
little hits here and there.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Sure, and by Us Your Illusion to again, it feels
like there's such a gap between the two and no.
These were all released in the same seven weeks, which
is still wild, you know, so it's like the same day.
I forget. I don't forget. I don't believe, so I
could be wrong. I do not believe they're on the
same day. Could you say, however, I so, I like

(15:33):
where in the order one, two, five, sixty seven? I
think use your illusion? One is good? Where it is?
Do you think which is better? Right, Blood Sugar, Sex
Magic or use your illusion too?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
If we're just going off of like, uh quantity, I
know more songs off of Blood, Sawyer Sex Magic off
the top of my head compared to use your illusion.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
To Okay, let me see here if we're talking, like,
are we talking like overall just better albums in our
opinions right here right now?

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yeah, to make it to make it easier, Yes, just
overall your own off the cuff opinion of how you
feel about the music and what you know about it.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
All right, let's see what's on that one.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Let's blood to be honest too, Like I can't speak,
I'm only kind of like speaking for myself. Really, if
I got like if I got like two very very
like big albums like from the same band, like maybe
like one or two weeks of each other. I don't
know about you, guys, but I feel like it might
be overwhelming a little bit if does that make sense?

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Sure? But can you never praise that?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Right?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Yeah you didn't, so you're not going to get fatigued. Yeah,
and you're the best. Like radio in ninety one actually
did play more music, less ads, and also it was
chock full of this, so you are lucky if you
got to hear the singles because there was so much
new content being spammed all the time. So it was
it was a very different time. Like I was too
young to even appreciate something like this. That means Alex

(16:58):
is even younger. So look at something like this too. Okay,
I gotta go to what's on? Are the balls?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Like?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
What are the maall? CD source was Sam Goodie around
back then.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Do you even know what that is?

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Okay? Sam Goody was a bigger thing in the Midwest,
like a CD store in the mall, so like whatever,
like radios like whatever, like music store you went to.
It's like, okay, I gotta come in like seven times
in the next six weeks to buy all this stuff
that like, Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Man, I imagine radio stations at that time, that would
have been so freaking cool. It would have been chilling
in your car, you like, like to my point.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
But to my point, it's uh like I like having
variety in my music, and especially if I was around
during that time where it's like you kind of did
have to be more selective because you didn't have streaming.
You what you listened to was what you bought and
you had to make do with that. If I had,
like if I had thirty something songs of guns and

(17:53):
roses and I had to like kind of like work
my way through it and that was my music for
whatever amount of time, I don't know, I feel like
I would get kind of like bored and things might
just end up sounding like all the same after a while.
I like having that variety, so at least I can
say a blood sugar sex magic, it's something different.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
I will youam.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
I just hope what I said makes sense. It does.
I will say this, when you look at these seven
redout chili peppers still stand out for what it is.
It's not grungs, it's not metallic, it's not guns and
roses either. They are in their own little pocket of
what they're.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Doing, and I kind of appreciate that every single one
of these albums is a super pivotal album for fans
of the time or even for like that little niche
genre of the time, Like these are really good albums overall,
which is the point obviously, I would put put Red
Hot Chili Peppers above both, I think honestly.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh both use your illusions interesting I do.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
I do only because use your illusion One. It is
a stronger album of the two Guns N' Roses you
know albums here, but it still doesn't have as much
of the staying power, if you will, for a broader audience.
Red Hot Chili Peppers I think does even though we
may not be super fans of the band. Staying power
you can't deny it.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
I also want to interrupt just one thing Wade in
the chat, thank you wait for looking this up. Both
of them were released on the same day, September seventeenth,
nineteen ninety one. Noie, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
But to my point then that just feels like a
lot of music just to kind of like get through
and pick out what songs are like your favorite.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
That's what Guns and Roses did. Though Guns and Roses
was on such a higher playing field after so much
coke ridden success in the nineties that they weren't going
to be told no. So yeah, yeah, So are we
okay with the bottom three? This is fine for me?
Oh yeah, this is yah is pretty accurate. I think

(19:48):
so too. And that's like I would definitely say one
is better than two one hundred percent. You could flip
flop blood Sugar and use your illusion one for me
either way, ask me on the day of my change.
But like, I still think this is a good list
for those three. Now we get to the hard part. Yeah,
so you too think Metallica is Black Album's number one? Definitely?

(20:10):
I'm out voted. Do you think it's like that's weird?
It's between Pearl Jebs ten and Black Album for me,
So I was fine with either of those going to
number one, So if that's number one, I'm not going
to argue.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, honestly, this is us just oh sorry, well no,
we've already talked about it just a little bit. But
that album was like a complete turning point, turning point
for Metallica. The Black Album took them from you know,
this thrash band from San Francisco and literally shot them
through the stratosphere and you know, they had this heavier sound,
this more radio friendly sound, and the Black Album really

(20:43):
put Metallica just into this super stardom status that we
know them to have today.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yes, yeah, no, seriously, Like going back to a little
bit of family history, this was the album that got
both my parents into being Metallica fans. They hated like
the thrash movement back in the eighties. They hated like
anything that was like like any Metallica from the eighties.
So when this album came out, then they saw the appeal.
Then they became fans, and they actually went to a
scene in concert. And again, this was when I first
started get into rock music and metal. This was one

(21:10):
of the albums that they had that they.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Introduced me to. So like again, it's just this kind
of started my journey a little bit. That's awesome, fair enough.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I think it was that way for a lot of people,
and this album was that gateway to, oh hey, there
is this other genre that's a little heavier.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'll say this to a song like Enter Sandman is
the perfect is one of those perfect gateway songs into rock.
It really is so absolutely, it's so versatile. It's something
everyone can ask access. But no one's going to argue
what it is, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
So, and they fixed Jason's bass on this album, so
I'm super thankful for that.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Fixed as actually play and he heard, yeah, fixed.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's audible, So that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
That basic track he has is so awesome. I mean,
I'll say this though, Jason left Metallica after years, but
he's on one of the best selling albums of all
time with the Black album he did. Okay, he's he's kind, yeah,
he'll be okay, fine, yeah yeah, So all right, now
for the grunge three.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
So you want Pearl Jam at number two, I.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Would say that as number two, Yes, I really would.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
I gotta be honest. I feel like never Mind would
be my second.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, And I'm honestly super surprised that Rowan and I
are so in sync on this one because I agree
i'mbout voted.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
That's fine. I'm not hurt by this one. So come on,
you want to like, uh, you want to like see
my thing for Pearl Jams ten is like kind of
what I've already said. Nirvana's never Mind was the pivotal
focal points of grunge. This is what you looked at
and saw that's grunge. This is the nineties, this is

(22:56):
what music is all about. Nirvana is the biggest thing
in the world, and it happened real quick, and everyone
knows it. Everyone has is getting the album, even if
you are into alternative or rock. You know, never mind.
You know, smells like Teen Spirit, you know, the lesser
known songs. You know, it's just how it was.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's like the Black Album. Good Yeah, I'm sorry it was.
It's like the Black Album, but for grunge fans and
for it branched that gap or bridged that gap from
grunge to the mainstream even further, because whether he liked
it or not, Kurt Cobain was one of the best
pop songwriters of all time. Like the way he could
hook you into his songs and the way he writ

(23:36):
wrote and the style and everything he wrote that entire album,
you know in part and just hooked everyone in. That
is the grunge album that really broke grunge into the mainstream.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, yeah, no, seriously, and to your point, like, yeah,
everyone knows Teen Spirit, everyone.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Knows come as you are.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
But like, honestly, even like some of the deeper tracks,
it feels like my generation is starting to appreciate that
even more now. Like I remember when The Man came
out back in twenty twenty two, they use Something in
the Way for the trailer, and that just that just
blew up online. Really that like that push like that
was streaming numbers for that song, like so far really

(24:14):
you've had.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
It's just kind of like Avatar. The Avatar covered that
on one of their albums, and I was like, dang,
this is rad. Like you've got Avatar covering Nirvana. That
also shows the you know, uh, exposure and exposure is
not the right word, but how much Nirvana is in
all of these little genres just a little bit here
and there, from the pop to the heavy to you know,

(24:35):
like Avatar and this other band MXMS they you know,
do like electronic underground type stuff, and they also covered
Something in the Way. So Nirvana is a little bit
everywhere from this album.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Sure, So I'm fine with that being number two for
how iconic and like, again, you're not gonna hear me
argue against it. Pearl jam and Soundgarden. I think that's
where it should be for those Pearl Jammer.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
I would switch Pearl Jams sound Garden, but that's my
personal take you. I've already kind of like said how
I feel about both bands and both albums. By the
time I got to ten and Pearl Jam, I kind
of had my fill of grunge, so it didn't really
hit for me as like say, if you were kind
of like consuming this all when it was coming out, Alex,

(25:20):
funny to.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Me, these two are really hard for me because I've
never been a huge Pearl Jam fan. I am so sorry, Luke.
I didn't want to tell you that out loud.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
That's fine. No, I'm kind of the same way too.
That's not one of the bands. I've got a fin
of aver So you're fun. Luca's gonna find new co
hosts after this.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
You guys don't like Pearl Jam.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
What you like your heavies? If you like your heavies,
that's the parting gift. You're gonna put.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Out like a You're gonna put out like a application
or something like that. And he requires gonna be has
to like Pearl Jam.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Oh yeah, that's perfect. I won't get the weird. Yeah,
I won't get the weird. I was applying for that.
Oh can I get free heavies if I also apply?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Oh, my God, but you can't get thrown an ax
free heavies.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
They were weak.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, look how they treated me and the week they
had them.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Look what happens go good.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, that being said, I'm not a huge Pearl Jam fan.
I never have been, and I not like a die
hard Sound Garden fan either, But for my personal taste,
the sound of Pearl Jam over the sound of Soundgarden.
I like the heaviness that Sound Garden brings. I like
Chris Cornell. I like his vocal style more than I
like you. No Pearl Jam or any of their not

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as heaviness.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
See that, I do agree with you. This is Pearl
Jam's best over one of Soundgarden's great albums, So that
I do agree with Soundguards way heavier. They reflect metal
even on some of that album more than Pearl Jam
ever did.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
I think Alex just helped me figure out too. Like
there's more energy found in Bad motor Finger. Honestly, there's
more anger.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Yeah, there is more raw anger and like intensity both
the guitars from Kim Thale and from Chris Cornell that
I agree with.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, I like it. I like it. It's a heavier,
it's like a heavy grunge.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
It is, Yeah, Soundguard and Allison James were definite definitely
the heavier side of grunge for sure.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, like Eddy Vedder's great, Sure, it's not quite in
my little little pocket.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah. Again, I'm not going to like squirre them on
the floor writhing to defend Pearl Jawn. That's not the case.
It's ten that I love. But at the same time
I get the arguments. I'm not going to really like
die on the hill for that one. So there's a
pole in the chat. I have not looked at the
results yet. It's still going vote for the top four.

(27:46):
Do you Alex and Rowan? Do you like how we
have our seven laid? I feel like this is pretty solid, Honestly,
I do too. Like we made arguments for everything. We
kept it fairly civil, and we were able to explain why.
I don't think anyone can argue how we got to this.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, I mean we have solid reasoning.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yes, yes, And you know, some people online even if
you do have like a good reason like, they'll just
be like, oh, you have a different opinion than me,
and they just go absolutely nuts.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Remember, so we want your comments as an opinion. Now
leave your rankings in the comments. We do want to
know them for sure, But keep in mind this is YouTube,
not Reddit. YouTube's gonna kick you if you start like
we don't. I don't even have to leave comments or
like check things and moderator. YouTube just slays straight up
bans you if you get real angry with the death threats.

(28:40):
So it so.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Debate chat, but don't don't brighten each other.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Right, So, while we're thirty nine likes, please set the
like button if you have it already, would help out
a ton. All right, I'm gonna check the poll that
we got to get to the other actual news stories
that we're going to cover. So Metallica one significantly Woo
forty one minutes, followed by Nirvana's never Mind to thirty two,
Pearl Jams ten at fourteen, Soundgarden's Bad motor Finger at eleven.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
To be honest, I was like looking at the chat
during our whole discussion, and honestly, a lot of people
in the chat pretty much had like a lot of
the same experiences that we had for most of these albums,
where it's like, oh, hey, I grew up with this
album too. This is one of my first I didn't
really care for this one. Sure, all right, I only
go back to your heads.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Just turned thirty four yesterday, So happy birthday, black album.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh there you go. That's what I was saying, Like
it's the start, like this week's the start of the
anniversary of this forty four day Shenanigan. You know that's
less than seven weeks. That's just barely over six weeks.
That all this came out in the same fall like
end of summer, beginning of fall, when all the kids
were dirty, wearing flannel and ripped up jeans, hating their parents. Hey,

(29:53):
the kids are their parents. The more things change, the
more they stay the same. So teenagers, Yeah, by the way, teenagers,
please subscribe. We really appreciate it. We're the podcast that rocked.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
Would you say the grunge aesthetic for like the nineties
was like what emo kids in the twenty tens would
be like, Like they had like a certain look and
it was all about just trying.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
To like, yes it is. But one good thing about
the grunge look you didn't have to put a lot
of effort into it. Emo you had to put something
sure that like straight and yeah, flannels barely five minutes,
especially for the guys, you know, they just roll out
of bed and they're ready. Emo took some work, so

(30:39):
fanel pajamas. I had a faux hawk.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I called it a faux hawk, okay, and it was
like it was like an a line cut. It was
so cute and it was like the Emo kid thing.
But I was before the scene kid thing, so that
like bat hair was nuts. But I had this faux
hawk that was like.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I don't know, I know exactly what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Yeah, but the rest of my hair was still like
in a bob. It was like a Karen a line
cut almost, but it looked super cool. And I had
this dark fin on top. It was neat. I loved emotion.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
I'm picturing it and that sounds awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
The Emo alter ego now, and like on Halloween you
have to be Emo Karen and like go to hot
topic and complain to the manager.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
So dude, like you can find a Karen, you can
find a Karen Halloween costume.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Like I'm not even joking.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
I have an actual Karen in my family and my
dad loves to just like bully her about that that
name becoming the meme. Oh so he found that costume
my mind and send.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
It to her.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I just had to describe the A line cut. Sorry,
I didn't need to offend any Karen's for real A
You're fine.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
We're gonna go to some quick news first, some good news.
This is a fall of one of our first follow ups.
Wayne from Hate Breed is recovering after surgery. Again. They
caught his like tumor early. Very good. I'm gonna go
quick a quick blur because he said some stuff. Hello everyone,
I'm finally home. Last week was rough, but I'm getting
better every day. Gonna be a while before I fully recovered,
but it's going good. I want to thank you all

(32:08):
for the messages. I didn't have my phone at the hospital,
so that's why I didn't respond. Just started to look
over them today. I really appreciate it made me feel good.
See this is the nice story. Okay, and that scar. Yeah,
that's what brain surgery does to you. It was badass, though,
I would say owning it looks like it. Yeah, so

(32:29):
like when I worked at the hospital, because I did
it work in the operating rooms for years, like and
all that's like setting up anaestiesia cars the computers there everything.
I've been in brain surgery a couple of times. It's
like that, like they pin your skin back and like
they have to like keep it pinned back to get
in there and then really like put it back when
they're done. Yeah, it's graphic. So this scar, yeah, like
it's gonna look pretty awesome once it heals up. Honestly, Like,

(32:54):
I'm I'm surprised you're able to handle that.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't know if this is for anyone else I
could handle like Gore and Body heartor in movie TV.
But if I see it in real life, I get
like I get like really just like.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Sure anxious, see like my thing before we go on.
Like when I was in operating rooms multiple times a day,
like all the ones like brain surgery, all those surgeries
with the planned ones I was okay with. It's the
trauma ones, the ones that were like accidents in emerging yrs.
That's the stuff that got to me. I saw some
six stuff in there, and like they're just and like
they're talking like they're working on people and they're like, oh,

(33:27):
so you see the game yesterday? Oh yeah, while they're
operating it, Yes they are. And I'm sitting there working
on a computer helping them figure out like like uh,
medical records and stuff on the software go like the
Heck's Road with everyone.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
They're cutting some poor bastard open, and they're just being like, oh, hey,
you're seeing the new episodes and Simpsons yesterday.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Oh my god, it was hilarious. So now we get
to the point where Alex gets upset. Do you see
this headline? Alex it dropped today? Suspect arrested for stealing
tribute flowers from Ozzy Osbourne memorial in Birmingham. They stole
gifts and flowers from the Ozzie memorial. Ooh you suck.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Whoever did that? I hate you and I hope the
worst happens to you for that.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
The guy was caught. I don't know if everything was
retrieved in any aspects. The stolen tributes were part of
a growing collection at one Birmingham's most significant memorial sites
for heavy metal icon. Despite the incident, fans were well
continue to honor Ozzie and yeah, the items replaced by fans.
Can I ask what situation?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
What situation are you in that you're stealing flowers off
of like memorial?

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, and I was thinking to like the gifts and stuff.
All those gifts like were personal and like they weren't
leaving watches and cell phones and stuff for you to
cash in.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
I drew this picture of you Ozzy here, Ozzie in memorial.
What what are you gonna do with that? You you're
not honoring Ozzie by keeping this in your house. You're dishonoring,
dishonor on you dish on any cow like flowers die.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
It's like, you can't even say this is a memento
from Ozzie's like because eventually those things are gonna wilt.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
So it's like, and my thing is, also, what are
you gonna do with all that stuff? When you take
it home? He's gonna set it up. It's like, yeah,
look what I got. That's what random people put on
his grave. Why would you do that?

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Anyway, he's gonna have his own little as mini shrine.
But he's too cheap or lazy to get actual stuff contribute.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
That's cheap considering a lot of this stuff. It's just
paper cutouts and flowers you can buy at any grocery store.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
I hope your friends leave your dinner party when you're like,
look at this stuff. I stole from my Aussie shrine
of here, we're gonna get it wrong pizza.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah, I hope, I hope he has like a family dinner.
He reveals that to his family. His father spits at
him and his mother says, you are not my son.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
That's what deserves to happen to them. Yeah, disown. Yeah,
I thought this post, this posted this afternoon or this
evening even I'm like, oh, let me add this story
really quick because they found the person and they arrested him.
So no more of this, no more of this, so
moving on. We also have one other follow up for

(36:06):
a moron in the news. So remember last week when
Chris Frowns attacked mister Beast overclaiming his charity Wells in
Africa weren't working well. Mister Beast followed up and said,
here's all the audits for every one of them they
are working. Pay up, and he gave a kiss emoji.
Franz paid up and said good job, keep up the
great work, thank you, blah blah blah. Well, why is

(36:30):
this worth it? Was this worth it? Actually, I'm gonna
tell you it wasn't worth it. You want to know
how I know?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I checked, I checked the analytics for their Spotify before
and after, like this whole situation there was like there
was virtually no change whatsoever. So it's not even like
he got an uptick in views or streams or something
like that. He just made himself look like a douchebag
for five minutes and now he's out in pocket five

(36:56):
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
So congratulations, Chris.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
No one gives a crap and buy your stupid band,
and now you just made yourself look like more of
a jackass online.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
I will say this supported water, so that's good.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, that's something that's something that's a that's a tax
write off.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
I guess she's supporting it because he got backed into
a corner.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
It's like if he.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Would never hear me anys for doing it because he
didn't do it on his own. But I'm saying good
came in the end where they're getting water.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Somebody will benefit from this. What what what? No one's
going to bet w through the news a little bit
quick because we have other stories what to do to it,
just to make sure we have time. Another thing that
no one benefits from. Brent Hines is still crapping all
over the rest of his former bandmates in masadon how
long was it? How long was this going on? I'm
not going to even quote him because it's more of

(37:42):
this petty, old man crap. It's like their guitars were
never that good. None of them can sing either. It's
that type of stuff on old Yeah, that's what it is.
And it's on older posts. People are finding out that's
what's going on. They found like an old post from
twenty twelve that he's responded to now and like follow
ups like no one can sing in that band. It's like, Oh,

(38:04):
what is he doing? That is sad? If that's what's
coming to that is sad. And that's why I say,
old man, petty crap. I don't know how else to
describe it. That's exactly what it is.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, So I would just love to be I would
just love to be a fly on the wall, like
during the weeks or days leading up to this, because like,
I just got to imagine what the hell he was
like in person with the rest of the guys, because
it could not have been good.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
They couldn't have You can't talk this much crap on
a band that you like co founded, just because you
guys had some creative differences or you guys didn't get along,
or there was some you know, turmoil while touring. This
is not the way to act about that.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
And this has to be more, way more than creative differences,
to way more than that, you know, Like I think
I said this, when the guys in system of a
down have creative differences, that's why you're never going to
hear new music again. You don't hear this level of toxicity,
no pun intended.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
I think I said this like when this uh, when
we first talked about Brendon leaving and just kind of
like Kim just just throwing shade at them. But like
there are there are plenty of videos online of him
crashing out on stage or just kind of him losing
his temper in general, and even like when I read
about like fan interactions, he's always like the one that

(39:17):
people say is the least approachable and everyone else is
like super nice. So I mean, like, I know that's
probably not the best reference.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
But I can't I get what to say A pattern
I've seen that echoed before too. While still by joke,
you mean that guy with bullets tattooed on his forehead
isn't approachable well, you know, so someone said by like
Dave the stage would tell to tone it down. Dang well, by.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
The way, say that, he's like saying that Braun and
Troy can't sing. This is just me beat, This is
just me being petty. But I'm gonna say this, Brenton
was my least favorite out of the three singers.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Okay, yeah, I mean I'm carrying them my argument, like
you're just like trying to find things that rag on
them for even if it doesn't make sense, and you're
doing it on old posts that people were finding out
and then replying to them over a decade later. Come on,
it's weird.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Too, Like, yeah, I just imagine like the guy who
first made that comment, he just gets like a notification
on his phone. Brent Hines responds here here like message,
Ye I know, right, twelve, but what this is?

Speaker 1 (40:25):
But I was in high school. Can't be real. I
was in high school back then. Now I have a family, Yeah,
so yeah, I think I still have it in a
Droy somewhere all right, all right, Yeah. One cool thing
that happened in our ongoing story. Europe has better festivals
than America. Bloodstock apparently was a magnificent spectacle and everything

(40:51):
was awesome and we weren't there. Oh I love that.
Oh was there too? Yeah? Yes, yes, actually I remember this.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Did you guys see that bron Daylor sort of responded
to statements.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
It was quiet and just like yeah, yeah, it's the
equivalent of uh huh. So yeah, it was just like, yeah,
it was like this.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
It was someone else's like post of massivedon set at
Bloodstock and just like in the corner, like very subtly
you can see like it's like it sounds in key
to me or something.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Like that, Licuda Coil Bloodstock. Oh. Christina Scaviia does not age.
She is in her fifties. Yeah, she's just thought that
was poppy for sec She looks so young. Yeah, I'm yeah,
I'm not accusing her of witchcraft. I'm just saying something

(41:46):
has to have happened.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
So amparrism is not the same as witchcraft.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Luke, Okay, Well, not going to Italy anytime soon, then,
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
While we're talking about this three performing with Trivium, how
awesome was that?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
And according to Trivia themselves and other people that were there,
they said that was the best Trivian performance ever. Festival wise,
and they've had some big ones, so that's quite the
statement if that's true. But yeah, bringing that many people
out like also to play with them with different songs, Yeah,
that's pretty great.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
I wonder if it's just because of the anonymity that
they have, but whenever members of sleep Token go off
and do like special performances with like other bands, it
just feels more special. Sure because like you have four
singing would bring me their horizon. You had to play
it back to the beginning. I'm just waiting for Vessel
just to appear on someone else's like stage and sing. Yeah,

(42:39):
the internet would go crazy.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Here's the band Creeper who announced their second their new
album later this year that I really enjoy from the UK.
They were great. They had a full stage pyro presentation
that people were digging that. They said, so I did that.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
It was super cool. Homage to Lenny right.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yep, absolutely read. So what does all that mean? It
means while everyone in Europe is having these spectacles of
festivals that go off without a hitch, we hear in
the States get festivals canceled if they and if they
do happen, there's occasional problems and that's about where we're

(43:18):
at right now.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
So Spectacles of Festivals, I love it.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Yeah, look what they're getting right here, you know, just
fun stuff and that's just like a random side stage band.
I don't know, Bloodstock's one of the ones you have
to camp at. I'm not sure some like some festivals
do that. See see yeah what I said, Spectacles of Festivals.
Look at this photo if you're listening, it's a massive

(43:44):
amount of fireworks with the main stage going on. It's awesome.
So yep, yep, yep. So ride Fest is a month
the way I'm hoping that's the one that like the
last couple of years I've gone, they played they played
through the rain last year on the last day and
it's still with af without a hitch, no band rereadm delayed.
So you know what, here's open Rio Fest delivers. Please

(44:05):
don't let twenty twenty five be the year of the
bummer festivals in the United States. Now, speaking of one
big show though next year, who wants to go on
a road trip? Alex Rowan, you want to go across
seas to see my Chemical Romance perform at Wembley Stadium.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
That's not a road trip. That's an airplane trip. Okay, fine,
boat trip.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Okay, what fun? Yeah? Car okay, ha ha ha. You
could take a boat, then you find my own way.
There you go.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You take a car, you get a freaking drown like
five miles into your journey.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Even that, we'll get one of the big planes that
could roll the car into and lift us up.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
There.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Geez, you's your head not even in the plane.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
We're just sitting in your car in the cargo section
of a plane.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
That's your plane.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
You can get cars from there to hear rowan come on,
it would be in the car.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
And then we wouldn't have to buy a car rental
when we're there. I'm saving money.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't think you are even more expensive than just
going to hurt.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
No, it is worth it. Driving on the wrong side
of the car is really hard.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
I hate it in it was miserable. Well you get it,
will you?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
General question, would you get in trouble if you had
an American car driving on England because of the.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Really restrictions, Like it's a totally different train because you're
driving with this wheel on the right, Like you have
to make lefts instead of rights because of the other side. Yes, Yeah,
that's the whole thing. However, they're going to do the
entirety of the Black Parade in a two and a
half hour sets along with all the other hits. So
tickets go on sale this Friday. So if you got

(45:40):
the money in fund, you have time to plan that.
I like. I like that you can plan ahead a
year out. It's going to be in July of next year,
so that way you can prepare bad news. It's through
our favorite site, ticket Master. Sure hope those servers are
working everybody, Sure hope.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
I sure hope nothing happens that you can't go into
the concert anymore, because good luck getting your money back.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
I feel like for this one there's a lot more
insurance behind it, like with a system like this, I
would hope with it's a Wembley Stadium show, you know.
So like that's a big, big one. So we shall see. However,
we move on. Final thing and Australian Festivaldus Good Things
twenty twenty five looks great and stole our idea of

(46:28):
having a random festival. Hey Australia, we know you watch
now Good Things Festival three days and three different cities
in Australia. This December headline by Tool, Weezer and Garbage Yay,
also has Laura Shore and knocked lips. What do you such?

(46:48):
This is almost this is up, This is infringement at
this point, good things fest Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
Let's throw promoter.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Yeah. Also Gore and Weezer on the same thing, and
Palais Royal we get them on ours so clear and wargasm.
Clearly you got some ideas from a podcast, pretty sure.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I gotta there's gotta be something that like, there's gotta
be some sort of like thing that they gotta signed,
like a contract where Weezer has to interact with bands
like Tool and Gwar and knocked loose on stage somehow,
please I will die.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Was it Wesa that played with Olivia Rodrigo Coachela? Yes, okay,
I could see. I could see we were having someone
to come on stage. Oh, Shirley Manson. That actually could
work a little bit. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I can see Rivers Cuomo going up on staging and
kill my.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Gar yes, yes, oh gold fingers on there for the
punk like the Scott Jananigans. Get out of here. You
don't watch our podcast, Get out of here you? I
did a skop band or two on there, just because
Cobra Starship really Okay, we're not saying that name sucks. Okay,

(48:10):
that was like an early twenty tens band. I don't, Alex,
how would you describe it? That's like MTV pop rock crap.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
It's it's like all American rejects meets three oh three.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Is that kind of close?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
That's closer. Yes, it's a bad name. Three oh three
is closer. And also it's like this would be like
a TikTok band years before TikTok existed. Cobra Starship gotcha? Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (48:36):
I hate that name though, seriously, sorry I keep saying that,
but still, like, my god, it's fine. That's like that's
like an AI generated band name.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
So as I pull up our last week's album versus album,
we're going to go through this pretty quickly because of
YouTube keeps crapping out blah blah blah. So last week
we had our little follow up of which corn album
everyone liked best on the community tap three zero point
eight thousand votes follow the leader one significantly issues significantly.

(49:08):
I kind of expected that just because it's name value,
that album artist iconic. They know the singles on that one.
I expected it so.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Freak on Alisha is so huge?

Speaker 1 (49:17):
That's fair, are we Yeah? But that's like the thing
are they judging?

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Are they truly a judging it based on it as
an album as a whole?

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Oh no, that's what I want to know. That's the thing.
I didn't say the question which chord album do you prefer?
That's the question.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
So we didn't ask anybody to do homework or provide sources.
It's time.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
No, this is America. You don't have to research to
vote another topical thing. I'm on fire Hire Me Daily Show.
So we now go on our poll of the week
for this album versus album. This one was chosen by
Rowan as I make it. I don't have the images

(49:55):
pulled up yet, but it will be when I link
it to later. During a war with this one, Chat, oh,
we're going to get some band versus band on this
album versus album, row and go ahead and list it off. Okay, Chat,
I hope you're ready.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
First of all, we got System of a downce Toxicity
and what is going up against them? You may ask
slip Knots' debut. We're gonna see where you guys stand today.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
It's in the poll right now, it's in the chat.
So I'll go first. Toxicity is a masterpiece and so
is self titled. They are both iconic for each band.
They are classics. They deserve all the praise of the world.
I feel like I would go with SIVI slipknots self
titled just by a hair by one hair as a

(50:40):
complete album. Alex, it's your thoughts.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
I'm gonna go Slipknot because I know that full album
all the way through and I do enjoy it all
the way through. This is a fantastic album. It's a
great debut. I'm not as deep in System of a
Down aside from a couple of the you know, most notable.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
Chad's catching up. That's fine, Rowan, how about you.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
I'm gonna say it overall, I like Slipknot more than
System of a Down. But if you're just talking to
the albums, I like Toxicity more than the debut just because,
like I listened to Toxicity so much that I kind
of know that album like front to back. And although
I could say the same thing with Slipknot, I just
remember the songs more on Toxicity more really that's fair.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah, fair arguments all around. I'll leave the pull up
really just for a little bit. As we move on
to our song of the week. This one also choke
this week, something very different in that tone. By the way, Rowan,
go ahead with the song of the week. Okay, so chat.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
First of all, Metal fourth Baby Metal's new album has
just been just really fun to listen to. Going back
to Our Heavies real quick, that was the first album,
like full album I listened to with the Heavies and
it was just it was just so much fun. And
not counting the singles off of that that's been released
for the last couple months, but uh, I really enjoyed

(52:10):
Sunset Kiss off the off the record.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
That's the song they do with Polifia.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
And for anyone who just kind of like, uh, who
doesn't know, To be honest, I really enjoy listening to
anime music like if a If an anime show I
watch has a good intro song, I usually just listen
to that in my spare time. And I don't know why.
This just gives me like that vibe. It's just so energizing,
this song and I just feel good listening to it.

(52:36):
I don't know what the hell they're saying. I don't
speak Japanese, but I don't really care about that type
of thing. It just makes me feel good listening to it.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
Very briefly, Have either of you watched K Pop Demon
Hunter on Netflix? My wife and I just watched it.
I want to both of you will like it, like
I've watched it together. Just talk about anime and Japanese music.
You both would like it. I promise my wife and
I really enjoyed it. It was fun. It's a little don't
anime like, but it's fun.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
So there's a lot of anime like songs or songs
used in anime that go hard. Chat if anyone knows
Unravel that was used in Tokyo Gool That is an
amazing song. I highly recommend you look it up. You
don't have to watch the show, you don't have to
read the series, you just have to, like.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
Just listen to the song. It just goes so hard.
And as we move on, thank you guys for hanging
with us. We're gonna go for upcoming albums and tours
that got announced. Alex, what tours got announced this week?
I know of a couple, but go ahead, we've.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
Yeah, we've got Lincoln Park. They just announced their first
Australian tour since twenty thirteen. Super exciting. That'll be super fun.
I hope everybody gives us full reports on that one. Yes,
we'll just added a second Hawaii show after the first
one sold super super fast record time. And then we
talked about Tool, Weezer, Garbage, Warna Shore Super Weird Festival announced.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
I'm sure it'll be that one. But yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
No, it's super Yeah, I like it. I like it
when not everything has to fit into a perfect little box.
Memphis Mayfire just announced a US tour with Rain City Drive.
Never Tell and if not for me, Ezra ray Hart
announced some tour dates. Oh pushed a button, Sorry you're fine.
And that is Evan Griffin of Better Than Ezra, Mark

(54:20):
McGrath of Sugar Ray and Emerson Heart of Tonic. Very interesting,
really yeah, super interesting band. I didn't know that they
were doing stuff, but they're doing some stuff. Kicks off
in November and then Skillett are hitting the road and
Bloodstock six announced it's the twenty fifth anniversary. We've got
a Lamb of God slaughter to prevail Judas priest Sepultura,

(54:40):
Death Angel vended lots of really big names on that one, and.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
That's only the first way. If they get a lot
more bands, a lot more bands get announced, so very nice. Rowan.
What albums do we have coming out on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
We got a solid list coming out. First of all,
I want to give one gifts light to a band
called Mirror Cell releasing a single called love Bomb this Friday.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
I'm they're very new.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
They they kind of combined metalcore with shoegaze, and honestly,
I just really love their sound really so they've played
snippis of the song leading up to it on Instagram.
It's good stuff. I'm already I'm already hyped for you.
But now going into just like the bigger releases. First
of all, we at Ellison Soto with Unbreakable. This is
a duo collaboration with David Elvison x MegaDEF Guitars, the

(55:31):
one who did Rest in Peace, so you know, the
one to look out for. And Jess Scott Soto who
was Ingday Malmstein's singer back in the eighties. I have
some I have a story that ends with me telling
Ingday himself to go f himself over the phone. That's
all I'm gonna say. Moving on, we have Rise Against

(55:53):
with Ricochet and fun Fact. Doing some research, I think
whoever does a list for a loud Wire when it
comes to album releases, I think you gotta gotta double
check because you misspelled Ricochet, you added an H.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
And it's yeah, okay, it no, it's it's not rich
I say.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
They weren't trying to be clever there. It's it's actually Ricochet.
Every other site says Ricochet. They just made a mistake.
And then finally, uh, this is what I'm most excited for.
Chevelle with Bright as Blasphemy, and we talked about their
tour coming up for this album that they're bringing, asking
Alexandria on and hopefully on that tour they clean up
their act, because my god, that's just been a dumpster

(56:36):
fire watching that.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
It's been unfortunate. But Chevelle's great. I'm hopeful for the
new album. I'm definitely gonna check it out day it
comes out, so good stuff.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Chevelle's awesome and yeah same same like same a sort
of genre, same like era, but like I don't want
to get anything away, but we got stacked like a
release next week, yeah, the twenty second if you know, you.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Know absolutely So that being said, thank you so much.
We do have one super chat to go through right
now and we just hit the like goals. We have
two festivals to book from Ellie Yeats oh this is
about Good Things festival because he's in Australia. Tool and
Weezer actually headlining a festival near me in December. Never
thought I'd see those two names wrently with each other
on the same stage, what with these homies living vicariously

(57:21):
get it because Vike vicariously get it. Yeah. So Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
That's a trip. But you know what, I'm glad that
many bands are doing the three days because that's what
a lot of festivals do in Australia. From what I understand.
Good for them, they get to see a ton of
different bands, you know, and a lot of variety.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Honestly, that would be one of the fun ones to do. Destination.
You can skip my Chemical Romance if it means going
to this one, Luke.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
I mean, I'm gonna be honest, it's probably eas go
to a festival rather than a single show. I'm gonna
be honest, it'd be easier to get into this one
than might come at Wembley, by the way, way easier.
That being said, are we ready to book some festivals?
Hell yeah, we just hit the goal too. We just
hit the goal. That's right, So we got two festivals.

(58:11):
Thank you all so much. I'm going to go here.
Where'd you go? We'll bam woa bam every week when
we hit a light goal and when we have suit
what the world happened there? There we go? The windows
were all messed up. We play game called Festival Rock
or Fluff and we book random bands in the middle
of nowhere festival kind of like what this Australian thing

(58:31):
did with us and took our idea and made a
whole many band festival one uping us. We can only
afford four bands per festival, unfortunately, but you'll have to
deal with that. These are in the middle of nowhere.
We'd book them at random. I added more bands this
week because I just saw another concert yesterday. What do
you guys think to go ahead? Good?

Speaker 2 (58:51):
I was just gonna say, like, is there any way
that we can pat in this? And then anytime a
festival gets announced. It just is too weird. We can
super copyrighting, get paid.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
We should be able to the problem though, is how
are we going to prove that they used a randomizer
like that? That's the problem. Oh no, we probably do something.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
You can you can uh, you can get people like.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
To Oh my god, this was on last week's episode.
You are hearing from my lawyer.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Yeah, like this is the first time. I really feel
like it's gotta be a little obvious at this point
someone's paying attention. Okay, so called chill Fest or something.
You know what, it's a quiet week. Chill Fest works
for me. Here we go band number one of Monsters

(59:42):
and Men who announced the new album coming later this year,
and they're chill There you go, chill Fest band number one.
They're they're doing a North America towards you. I'm very
excited about that. Like to go through upcoming album first
one in six years. Number two show Dobbin's Harvest. That
actually works with chill Fest as well, with like the

(01:00:04):
blues rock stuff they do. It's actually pretty on brand.
Number three Smashing Pumpkins. I can see it, you know what,
I can't. Yes, they have enough material to make that
work and number four kill Switch Engage and you know what,

(01:00:24):
we'll have them anyway. I don't know how chill they
can be, especially Adam who goes insane, but that's fine
with me. I would go to this is yes for me.
I love all these bands.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
May not all work, but I love these bands individually.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
It's definitely random. But at the same time, no one
would turn this down. I don't think Alex yeah, it's good, Yeah,
yes or no? In the chat? Which yes or no?
In the chat? Would you please? Would you go to
this one? I don't know where. We didn't say where.
This one's gonna be middle of nowhere, true, middle of nowhere.
We'll go with a boy somewhere in North Wale, Wyoming.

(01:01:01):
That's fine too. Oh my god, I work Dakota and Wyoming.
What are the two? There? You go, but you're getting
smashing pumpkins and kill switching, gage of monsters and men,
shamans harvest, you know what? That works? Just fine. I'm
seeing yeses across the board. By the way in chat.
That's that's an easy one. Up next for our last

(01:01:21):
second day, thank you very much. This is yeak Fest
out of Australia. Yeat Fest is coming to have their
second day in the middle of Wyoming or North Dakota.
Here we go Band number one, yeat Fest, The Offspring,
Okay number two, Tool number three, Eisneine Kills number four,

(01:01:51):
Padic at the Disco. This will be a very visually
stimulating show. At the very least, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Gonna be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
It will be fun and eisnein Hills Tool Panic at
the Disco.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
We kind of assume that these bands will interact with
each other somehow on stage. Right in these little hypotheticals we.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Make just so Maynard can make fun of the guy
from Panic at the Disco. Brendan Is that that's his name?
I feel like yeah, Brendan, Yeah, I feel like it.
Though maybe maybe he'd be a good sport. I don't know.
I really don't know. I would go to this absolutely,
I would too. Paddic and the This Go they're headlining
when we were young this year, so they're still going
to try to do stuff even though it is kind

(01:02:32):
of just his own Brendan Yuri's own band at this point. Yeah, always, Yeah,
there's no reason I wouldn't go. Come on, Tool Headliner.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Yeah, Spring, you know you're going to be along.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah, it's true. What the times I've seen Offspring, it
always is that type of sing along. Everyone's just moving
around when they hear come out and play and oh,
what's the other one? Pretty fly for a white guy
like the all Spring has such a weird discography of
very serious and the cheesiest stuff imaginable. What's that one

(01:03:07):
song they made about?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Like, it's about his it's about his experience as a
as a scientist, and it's about splitting atoms?

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Am I am? I thinking of that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:03:15):
Do you guys know what's song? Time? He has a PhD,
he has a doctorate. I don't know what song that
is though, it's not. Why don't you get it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
There was some song he made about splitting atoms and
he like reworked it into like a love song or something.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
I don't know, I just know and then be like
feel like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Yes, the same album, Yes, correct, exactly again again totally serious,
absolute smelly cheese, like the cheesiest stuff you know. So
that's the band I see? Yes is like some people
are saying fine, yes, I'll go, oh they're do. Why
don't I think that Brendan would be decapitated by ice
nine kills on stage. Obviously, I don't even think about that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
Yeah, see that's part of the fine.

Speaker 1 (01:03:56):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, You're right. Okay, huh. I'm
successful festivals this week. Thank you very much. Thank you
everyone for tuning in with us and stick it around
as well. It was a quiet week, but I'm glad
we did the little game with ranking the iconic seven.
That was fun and something different. Lease leave comments let
us know what you guys thoughts of all this as well.

(01:04:17):
We do want to know. So that being said, thank
you guys for tuning in. We will be here next
week talking about all the Shenanigans. Alex, you have anything
you would like to bring up before we start closing
things down, yep, Rowan, how about you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Want I say sorry for that album versus album that
was like for some of you guys I saw in
the chat that was like picking Lawyer's your favorite child.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Okay, everyone knows there's actually a favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
This Yeah, but you don't say it out loud. Yeah.
With the poll, I'm glad you said that. The poll
says toxicity by a significant margin sixty one thirty eight percent.
I believe it so we will report that next week
when I put this on the community tab and see
what's going on there, because that's where thousands of votes

(01:05:04):
get in. So that being said, thank you all so much.
We'll be back next week. Early access right now for
my next video is off on Patreon for YouTube members
if you want to check that out. Early final thing, Alex,
you were back on the winning record after you got
our guest host Kevin last week to laugh and a
little bit, also a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
It's not here to sabotage us this week.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
So oh, come on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Even when they're terrible, they're great.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
There's been one or two in the past year that
have not been great. I will say that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
But they're so bad they're good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Okay, yeah, but that's not all of them. There are
someones that are just genuinely bad.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Yeah, because it's exchanged me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Okay, all right, I'm here, laughs out now, buddy, Yeah,
I'm ready, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
All right. So my friend's daughter can't decide whether she
wants to be a hairdresser or a short story writer.
I guess you'll have to flip a coin heads tails.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
I get it, but it's such a stretch.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
I know, I know, it's been a weird week, so.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
I'm gonna be honest. It took me a second to
really get the Yes, that's a figure, a.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Little bit of a head scratcher. But this one just
it's like, I don't know, I don't know if I'm
gonna bring this one out. And I did. I was
brave as their tails.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Chat throw your stuff now, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
I'll take it genuinely. This time I earned it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
Oh where back, just walk on the stage. Okay, throw
your stuff at me. I'm ready ready for it for real.
This time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
It's like, uh, it's like a seen in like a
war movie wards, like a guy's like holding out, like
holding his arms out, and like a rain of arrows
just drops down on the heroes.

Speaker 3 (01:07:07):
I got planes, trains, and automobiles. I think that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Grapes, pretzels. That's like maybe half a tomato? What half
a tomato?

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I will take half of the tomato, the pity tomato.
I will gladly take it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Okay, So I'm not laughing, but it was a good one, Alex.
I'll give you that. Someone said, l m f AO
Radio one guy. Yeah, so you got a couple of
people that are Okay, what are danel is that? Oh? Yes?
Can anyone inform me? Someone throwing giraffes giraffes Martini's head

(01:07:49):
explosions books. Okay, that's appropriate.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
Thank you, tails. Yes, yes, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
So yes, wolex it actually takes. Yeah, yeah, that's not
a punishment.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Isn't that a no doubt song? Just kidding?

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Cool? Oh goodness, there's not a.

Speaker 3 (01:08:09):
Song called trapped in a box? So I say cats
in a box?

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Yes? No, no, that I got, yes, no, I got
that one. That would have counted if that would have
been something lay into a dad joke. So, okay, you
found like some rock semed ones? Since there are, that'd
be cool. Uh. Next week we'll be back with more
dad jokes. We'll be back with more content. Thank you again, Heavies.

(01:08:33):
We'll start doing the proper Heavies branding and stuff later.
Thank you again. Have a great night. Please leave comments
letting us know what you think about our ranking of
the Iconic seven. Have a great week. We'll see you
next time. Please. Yeah, so I guess crats. Oh no,
your joke was so bad you need money to fix it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
I'll send more money please, Actually.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
A homeless busker just saying bad jokes and people are
just giving him money out.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Oh crap, that's not a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Actually, here's my then, MO, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Yeah, there you go.

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