LC and Bakko unleash a MegaEp of new music as we count down each of our top 10 albums of 2020. Spoilers ahead! LC’s Top 10 10) Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure 9) Black Stone Cherry – Human Condition 8) Body Count – Carnivore 7) Wyldelife – Year of the Snake 6) Pearl…
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LC and Bakko unleash a MegaEp of new music as we count down each of our top 10 albums of 2020.
Spoilers ahead!
LC’s Top 10
10) Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure
9) Black Stone Cherry – Human Condition
8) Body Count – Carnivore
7) Wyldelife – Year of the Snake
6) Pearl Jam – Gigaton
5) AC/DC – Power Up
4) Local H – Lifers
3) Marilyn Manson – We are Chaos
2) Creeper – Sex, Death and the Infinite Void
1) Massive Wagons – House of Noise
Bakko’s Top 10
10) Massive Wagons – House of Noise
9) Red City Radio – Paradise
8) AC/DC – Power Up
7) Stryper – Even The Devil Believes
6) Ozzy – Ordinary Man
5) Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons – We Are Bastards
4) Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown – Pressure
3) Haunt – Flashback
2) The Atomic Bitchwax – Scorpio
1) Michael Grant & The Assassins’ – Always The Villain
Intro: Armored Saint – Attention Span
Outro: Steel Panther – F 2020
On May 13th 2017 Bakko was covering the Northern Invasion Festival in Somerset Wisconsin. On this night the headliner was Soundgarden.Working from the photo pit, Bakko captured these images which would be among the last live shots taken of Chris Cornell as sadly he took his own life a few days later on May 17th. None of these pics have ever been published and only a handful have been shared on social media making this the first time these have been widely available.
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As bonus coverage this week we have an interview with Michael Beinhorn, producer of Soundgarden’s “Superunknown”. Michael shares stories from the making and recording of Soundgarden’s most successful record.
Michael Beinhorn has lived his life in the pursuit of artistic expression, first as a visual artist, then as a performer, and finally as a record producer.
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Coming in at Number 9 on Rolling Stone’s greatest Grunge Albums is Soundgarden’s 1994 release “Superunknown” featuring guest host, from the Pods & Sods Podcast, Eric Miller. Eric and Bakko talk about the making of the record, the genius of Chris Cornell and go track by track.
Superunknown is the fourth studio album by American rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994, through A&M Records.
Read MoreBakko and LC drop the needle and discuss their top notch vinyl collection. We talk manufacturing, mastering and lack thereof, bands/albums that are better suited to CD, whether upgrading your stylus is bullshit and if LC’s Vinyl OCD and current monthly spending habit is in need of professional intervention. Want to see the albums and…
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Bakko and LC drop the needle and discuss their top notch vinyl collection. We talk manufacturing, mastering and lack thereof, bands/albums that are better suited to CD, whether upgrading your stylus is bullshit and if LC’s Vinyl OCD and current monthly spending habit is in need of professional intervention.
Want to see the albums and our handsome faces? Check out the YouTube version of this Ep here: https://youtu.be/A0LSrNR9fJw
Music Clips Featured:
Bob & Doug McKenzie & Geddy Lee: Take Off
Donnas: Take IT Off / Save Me
Slipknot: Sulfur
Black Stone Cherry: Big Legged Woman
Foo Fighters: I Should Have Known
Ghost: Rats
Bob Mould: American Crisis
Marilyn Manson: Keep My Head Together
Def Leppard: Run Riot
Stones: Heartbreaker
Zakk Sabbath: The Wizard
Icon: Under My Gun
Trucker Diablo: Drive
Alice Cooper: Pain / From The Inside
Heavy Pettin : Rock Ain’t Dead
Mark Yarm, author of the book Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge, joins the program to share stories from his book and talk about the musical movement that was Grunge.
Mark is the contributing features editor and podcast host/producer at Input, a site about technology and culture. In addition, he has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, Wired, WSJ. Magazine, and Rolling Stone and am the author of Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge, a Time magazine book of the year.
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Coming in at No. 10 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Grunge Albums List is Pearl Jam’s 1993 release VS. Joining Bakko on the episode of Whatever, Nevermind is the host of Pods & Sods Craig Smith.
Vs. (pronounced versus) is the second studio album by American rock band Pearl Jam, released October 19, 1993 through Epic Records.
Read MoreYo mama so easy, she re-tweets Cobras & Fire episodes. LC and Bakko bask in the light of freedom. The freedom to discard a futon. The freedom to hypothesize what Eddie Trunk did to piss off Rob Halford. The freedom to guilt listeners into buying an over priced collectible. The freedom to wonder how Ozzy…
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