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The guitarist was John Ricci, but not the same John Ricci from Exciter.

I think you should have read up more on the band : Joe strummer sounds like he always does. If a band has a right do do reggea its Clash as I said. They grew up in the Reggea part of London . I saw Burning Spear there and its very reggae area . They speak English with and London accent !

Two of the clash members grew up in Brixton home of British Reggea . They learned playing their instruments from reggae. Police is not a reggea band. Clash plays genuine Reggea in their way. Theirs Firestone album , Black Market Clash , London Calling and Sandanista are all great albums for different reasons . Sandanista many may say is a flawed album , but that’s is its greatness. After more than 40 years it still sounds fresh and filled with ideas

I think this is their best album since Allelujah, Don't Bend, Ascend.

I went to a ween show in 2004, the show you’re speaking about you watched live was in Orlando , I went to to see them at Jannus Landing in St Petersburg Florida, they played alone, for 3 hours and they knocked my bougnish off !

I yelled at that same guy at the Ween show !

You guys should really check out Failure you'd love em🙏

fuck i loved this band, ever since the early 00's

This year end wrap up is fantastic. I try to watch your videos / reviews when possible, but I didn't realize how many great albums I'd missed over the year. Thank you x100.

Great lists! Mamaleek, Beth Gibbons, Chat Pile, and Godspeed are definitely standouts to me. There was an overwhelming amount of good music this past year. Some other favorites of mine... Muuntautuja by Oranssi Pazuzu: Kaleidoscopic, industrial black metal. These guys are incredibly consistent. Probably my pick for album of the year. Inorganic Rites by Krallice: Another stalwart atmospheric black metal band that made a great album. 'Hinderer' is one of my most played songs of the year. Provisional Living by Terry Green: Twangy post-hardcore/screamo. Reminds me a bit of Is Survived By by Touché Amore. Very solid. Higherlander by Edhoculi: Progressive post-hardcore with some classic rock riffs. Like... a lot of riffs. Diamond Jubilee by Cindy Lee: Hypnagogic indie rock. I'm a longtime fan of Women (the band) so this was an easy slam dunk. Happy New Year guys! 🎉

Why is the part where u listened to live through this muted?

guy on the right is drunk

Calling I Can't Put My Finger on It "The Platypus of songs" while wearing a Disco Volante shirt

they should release instrumental versions of the albums

This was super enjoyable to watch! I have not been able to pick up much new music this year, but was delighted to see your high esteem of many old favorites - Godspeed, Beth Gibbons, Shellac, Neubauten and even Nick Cave. It would be fascinating to see you walk through Neubauten’s body of work. I followed them religiously for nearly 30 years, but have not heard the latest album. Same with Cave… I gradually lost interest, when Harvey and Bargeld left the Seeds. I will definittely also be looking up some of the albums you rate so highly and that I have not managed to get around to like Idles, Bunuel, Knocked Loose and Chat Pile. A suggestion, when it comes to Gothic Americana would be Sixteen Horsepower (you mentioned Wowen Hand, which I also really like, but 16hp was hard to top for me.) Looking forward to view many more of your episodes and following your continued episodes. I will go and pledge on patreon now 🙏

Chat Pile's Shame is my song of the year. Absolutely devastating lyrics, and the horror continues right now as I type this comment.

Cheers, lads. Some great recommendations here that I'd not heard of before. I'm looking forward to listening to the Chat Pile, Beth Orton, Einsturzende Neubaten and Godspeed albums. I did think that the Fontaines D.C. album, 'Romance'', would be included.

Hi Mike and Alex! I just discovered your poscast. It is great!! Thank you for this fantastic and entertaining “intro” or “guided tour” through Melvins’ music. Special appreciation to Robert for unpredictable and novel perspectives, and for adding humor!

Finally an end of year best of list that actually gets me excited to hear each album. Great analysis, the enthusiasm is contagious.

Brat is easily album of the year. No mention, can’t even take you seriously.

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Gothic country is one of my favorite genres. You guys have a lot of great stuff ahead of you if you ever go down that rabbit hole. I would probably describe the genre as "Sounds like late 80's Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but with more bluegrass influence." 16 Horsepower were one of the pioneering bands and only had four studio albums, so they'd be an easy one to cover on the show. I only listened to about 15 new albums in 2024, but my favorite was Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja. Probably the best industrial psychedelic black metal space rock album you'll hear this year. Probably the only industrial psychedelic black metal space rock album you'll hear this year. Geordie Greep was my #2. What can I say, that boy's a super greep, super greep (he's super greepy.) Opeth - The Last Will and Testament is #3. Opeth were a band I stopped listening to for the past 15 years or so, but this album rekindled my love for the band and made me remember how good they were/are. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World is my #4. Basically the same thing I wrote about Opeth. The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales is #5. This is basically one long 42-minute gothic metal song cut up into 12 shorter tracks that segue into each other. The songs are somewhat unsatisfying taken on their own, but work wonderfully within the context of the whole album. Much better than the other gothic metal albums I've seen getting praised this year (Tribulation, Unto Others)

Love your channel guys and those behind the scenes. Hope you all have a great coming year! 🤘🏼

Perfect pick for album of the year Alex.

Great lists guys as always My album is Idles Tank too But Amyl and the sniffers Cartoon darkness is my second. And obviously All the trains Shellac. Kim deals album is great too. Hope for a pixies episode this year. Maybe Manic Street preachers?

Intro/Year Overview 00:00 Mike's Honorable Mentions 10:24 Alex's Honorable Mentions 12:18 Mike's Album of the Year 14:40 Alex's Album of the Year 24:53 Wild God by Nick Cave 36:58 American Standard by Uniform 41:42 Via Negativa by Xeno & Oaklander 45:13 Blue Lips by Schoolboy Q 50:04 A Chaos of Flowers by Big Brave 52:52 Vida Blue by Mamaleek 1:00:45 Mansuetude by Buñuel 1:07:35 To All Trains by Shellac 1:11:10 "NO TITLE" by Godspeed 1:17:22 Rampen by Einstürzende Neubauten 1:23:51 She Reaches Out to She by Chelsea Wolfe 1:29:25 Chromakopia by Tyler the Creator 1:32:35 Infinite Desires by Donny Benét 1:40:46 You Won't Go by Knocked Loose 1:47:08 TANGK by IDLES 1:54:26 Outro 2:13:34

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Another great year. 2025 is the year of Neurosis review. Keep up the great work! ❤🎉

KISS literally did all obscure shit on Unplugged, sans maybe 4 tunes. They did it with energy, but they did a great job showcasing how much the band had evolved over 20 years. Nirvana was overrated in many ways. They had excellent creativity, chemistry, & punk rock vibe. Their 3 studio albums are really good. They are fascinating, but not because they were the trendy hype of their time.

I really don’t like being mean on the Internet, but this is some half ass shit. the butt hole surfers were a full ass band and you both are holding back so hard. Fuck being mean hope you’re both well.

I also bought Cop back when I was in junior high, around 1988 or 89, and loved this shit ever since. Later on I got into GODFLESH, old industrial like Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and that lot

You guys saying demons sing love song should be cut is mad, genuinely one of my favourite songs oat

Cherub was amazing at the cabaret Metro the first two times I saw them.

SDRE is my favorite band of all time, so it's hard to say any of the albums are less than perfection. i wore out the black-cast casette tape of Diary by sub-pop in my car my senior year and the year after, playing it every day. LP2 is probably, artistically their best work, but The Rising Tide got better every time i listened to it, until i came to the conclusion that it is a masterpiece of songwriting and execution. The Fire Theft is a damn good album too, just something different like Jeremy's solo work. They dropped a new song in 2024 with a cool video. Check it out. Also they are still touring. I met Jeremy a few times in DFW in the late 90s and i think his smoking and maybe voice coach advise made him change what he was doing on the first two albums to something more sustainable.

been listening to them since '93. i was 13 and heading into highschool. blew my mind.

Regarding the 3 "reunited" Dolls albums. I remember making a CD-R of my favorite dozen tunes off those 3 albums. In my mind, it was the album they should have made. There were plenty of uninteresting tunes on those that I tried to like. It was well over a decade ago though. I still enjoy the first 2 original albums though.

Alan's On Fire is the best hardcore song ever written.

Always appreciate more Archy content ❤ If you liked him (and have any spare time lol) I think his live tracks (on RUclips and his live album) are better than studio a lot of the time. Love the video guys 🙏

Great band, great aesthetic, great tunes, punk vibe, and lastly not at all as weird as y'all are making them out to be! Also: who cares for virtuoso vocals and academic synth chops anyway ...?

The reason they are s preachy is that anarchism is in its roots a radical evangelical Christian cult, even if they would deny this all day long.

Suicide were not "good musicians"? That's an indredibly stupid statement. First of all, music is not all about performance and "musicianship", those guys were huge pioneers of sound and artistic vision at least as much as Kraftwerk were. Alan Vega came from a fine art background and Martiv Rev was a jazz musician who played with some big names in New York prior to the formation of Suicide.

The Bruce Springsteen reference is intriguing when you consider their roots. But in the end, Chat Pile's music is more honest because they're more in touch with working class struggles than Springsteen has been in decades. He's beyond all that at this point. These guys still see and feel it, and it comes out through the sheer intensity and power of their music.

1:09:08 sounds like swans

I could understand why someone that fell in love with the teenaged punk band in 1980 might dismiss RTB. But you guys don't get the transcendent glory of "Stay Away From Downtown" and that makes me sad.

He mostly played everything himself.

Tommy did the backing vocals as well

The jug sounds better on Evolution live the fx of it does

The label a joyful noise is a sun ra reference ! Love the Melvins !!!! Been collecting there vinyl and going to see them live for about 26 years now and they have never disappointed me !!!!

“This isn’t punk music.” Oh yeah? What’s punk music? Do you mean a punk sound? There’s no such thing as a cookie cutter punk sound unless you are influenced by Jann Wenner’s useless rag and therefore a certain sound is what you expect from punk rock. Punk was just the name of the underground Rock n Roll scenes in cities across the world. Bands that were too sick and derelict to be signed to majors. The music ranged in different styles. You could do whatever you wanted. No rules. No set style. The Cramps were one of those bands. The Cramps did what they wanted and they were there from the beginning. They never compromised. The Cramps were dangerous and low brow. All a kid needs in life is a MAD Magazine and a Cramps record and there you have it: a true punk in the making. It’s certainly frustrating watching critics categorize every Rock n Roll band into a sub genre but at the same time it’s gratifying when it doesn’t work and viewers get to see the confusion on your faces when you mutter “this isn’t punk music”.

While You Were Out was a transformative record for me. At that time the world didn’t really know the name Soul Asylum or at least I sure didn’t. But it challenged me in a way nothing else I was hearing did and I gradually learned to love every song. It was also a “rock” album which was sort of a new thing at that point with respects to punk/underground/college rock or what have you. An early hint at what would come later in the 90s. Anyway, that’s not to say it’s a must-listen now. The appeal is fairly niche I’d say. That one and the Clam Dip ep you guys neglected (check out a song called P-9 if you dig Twiddly Dee, more of the same but a bit leaner) and then Hang Time were the big 3 for me. After that my tastes started to diverge a bit and also yeah they started to get more commercial. I still remember the first time I heard Shove. It wasn’t bad at all but it was definitely made to be a hit. I still liked some of their songs throughout the 90s, (I thought Misery was more like their 80s stuff) but only paid attention in passing.