What an amazing series. Probably my favorite podcast of all time.

It’s amazing how many great albums these guys haven’t heard. There’s a lot more music than just rock you know.

For the love of music, please stop saying “like” every other word! You’re not in high school anymore!! So distracting from an otherwise enjoyable show.

I’ve actually listened to quite a few episodes, and a little late to the party, so I’ll give it a just ok. I already know to skip ahead at least 10 minutes to see if they’re talking about the topic album yet. Their pop culture knowledge is pretty slack- two folks had never heard of My Bloody Valentine/Russ Meyer in the Garage episode, but hey, there is a lot to digest out there. What really kills me is the “you know” and “like”, sometimes more than 4-5 times in one thought. I don’t expect NPR, but this is an aural entertainment, space fillers are really annoying to many listeners. Think before you speak, short silences are way better than ya know, ya know, like, ya know.

Certainly you know by now he was falsely accused if not I suggest you do research...I am glad one of the hosts likes the album...

Spend more talking about themselves than the Artist or the Album.. waste of time

Touches on so many artists and albums I am into. By the way.....its great that there is a Replacements reference in almost every episode!!!

Great podcast guys, great to hear insight from actual musicians

I really enjoy getting some insight and background on albums I aleady know (Houses of the Holy) or albums I never really listened to, but have now become part of my audio library (Pet Sounds). I've been going back and listening to episodes I originally missed, and now I see you're doing some new content. It's great to have Bill and Brian as a temporary escape during the pandemic. Keep it up and how about a few of your High Fives?

Please consider doing any Roxy Music or Destroyer albums.

Always SO much fun to hear these guys talk about the music they love. Thrilled they haven’t completely let go of this.

These guys know their stuff but get on sooooo many tangents that I just wanna leave. And I do.

The Chronic needs to be done

A few weeks ago, I had a spiritual experience rediscovering Pearl Jam, a band with which I was absolutely obsessed in youth, and have been gobbling up material. Your Yield episode has been amongst my favorites! Looking forward to more :) Btw, I still think Ten and Vs. are untouchable, but Yield is probably my new third favorite.

Worth the listen

They like to listen to themselves agree and say the same things. 35 minutes before they played a song, except for the opener. Listened to the first one, then to one about a band I love, both were interminable-

There are a lot of 5-star reviews, and I felt like I was taking crazy pills. Then I scrolled down to see that there were a bunch of people who said what I was planning to say. Whew. I wanted a podcast with good research and thoughtful review of "great albums." When I finally tried this one out...it was what a lot of review complain about. Talking about everything but the album. For instance, in the Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters podcast...I learned what one host's girlfriend gave him for Christmas when he was 15. Castle Wolfenstein, the video game. I learned that they didn't expect that there were new viewers, but then they said maybe there WERE first time listeners listening. They said they shudder at how bad their early episodes were. They went over the fact that there was no real reason for doing that particular review except that they liked the album. They said there was no important anniversary or anything. And they, as they were saying that out loud, they put together that it was 20 years since the album came out, so it WAS an anniversary. Crap like this went on for THIRTY minutes before they started breaking down songs. Look, if hosts are witty or incisive or something, it's all well and good to listen to them say entertaining things...but this elevated uninteresting small talk to high art. And when they finally got into the background of the band, they kept having to correct each other on the facts. And when they tried to discuss equipment, they had trouble disguising that they had never seen the equipment they were GUESSING that the Foo Fighters used. SKIP IT.

I will recommend this to anyone looking for a great listen. Maybe you will revisit this from time to time? Love Momma Z

I stumbled upon this podcast somehow a while ago and have since listened to a bunch. The Siamese Dream, Blue Album, amd Chutes Too Narrow eps were great. It also took me through some albums I’ve never actually dove into (Dark Side Of The Moon) and took me on a few nostalgic trips (Yield). Either way, I like their voices and ideas and opinions and stories (Playing the shins in front of a strange girl and your aunt!) and they seem like friends I Would kick it with. Well done gentlemen and thank you.

Bill and Brian... why not put together a documentary on the podcast exploring how the show developed, evolved, and finally ended. Perhaps use the same narrative as the podcast and use fans to help tell the story.

One of my favorite podcasts! So in-depth and knowledgeable!

Interesting show, but wish it was better researched/structured. Things aren’t very smooth and a lot of wasted time. Could be tightened up.

Great Podcast. As much as it exposes me to new music and fresh insights to music I already know...I enjoy to back and forth between the hosts and their guests. Keep pumping these out.

2 uncharismatic knuckleheads mask their ignorance, cultural irrelevance, and lack of musical sensibility with dull personal anecdotes and diversions. For such a long podcast to be so unenriching is a disgrace, especially while attempting to address fascinating material. An absurd waste of time.

For the record! Waylon Jennings didn’t lose a coin toss to Buddy Holly like the guy in the Waylon Jennings Dreaming my Dreams episode. It was Buddy’s chartered plane. Waylon gave his seat to a sick Big Bopper and Tommy Alsup lost the coin toss to Richie Valens. So idk what website the guy they spoke to during the episode is from but the fact that these 2 don’t do enough research to an episode to know probably the most commonly know story about Waylon. SMH!!!

This podcast seems to filter out women and women-led bands. Open up your ears to more that’s out there and learn to appreciate women artists!

While their episode titles are not exactly mis-leading, be prepared to sit through 20-80% chatty filler while waiting for them to get around to it. The 2-hour No Doubt /Tragic Kingdom episode doesn't even start until hour 2. They could edit the thing down to 40 minutes and it would be pretty sharp.

This is one of my absolute favorites. I have recommended it to everyone I know who either loves podcasts or music. The key to my enjoyment, as a sixty-one year old who remembers the release of virtually all of these albums, is going back and listening again once I finish an episode. It opens up so many new possibilities and shows me so many things I missed. Musicians who are also fans are the only people that could pull this off, but anyone could derive something from what they have managed to create. Thank you for that.

Such great insight, chemistry and taste.

These guys are great. Like nerding our with your buddies about music. If considering Lindsey Buckingham a douche is cool, consider me Miles Davis.

Jay-Z before Jimi Hendrix ... just one example of a poor choice. You guys have some great episodes and I loved a lot of the shows but lately just not so good! Please examine some of the important talent in music ... there’s nothing good past maybe ‘05 . No more reminders of how old you guys were when Matchbox 20 came out ..we good ... I’m holding on for some good stuff!

Guys guys guys. Great that you have an episode about Purple but before you even get to it... so wrong about Shangri la dee da. There are many great songs on it. Coma is strong as you mentioned but some of their best lighter material is on this album... Wonderful, A Song for Sleeping for example. The outro of Bi-Polar Bear is one of the highlights as well. As opposed to the last self titled one with Weiland. Right about Take a Load Off, thats one of the very few quality tracks on it. Most of it isn’t very inspired. The Deleo bros explained that Weiland was barely in the studio w them, he’d do his vocals at his own studio. I assume this lack of cohesion was the problem with that album. By far their weakest w Scott. I think the Deleo bros took the lead on Tiny Music’s genre hopping direction and Weiland followed, instead of the other way around.

I recommend finding albums you already love and listening to those episodes and then expand from there. I’ve discovered some records from the podcast I now love. Bill and Brian are insightful and knowledgeable.

These guys turned me on to so much amazing music. Would love to hear a little more of each song other than just the beginnings of tracks, but I’m super appreciative. I typically listen to an episode then download the album on Spotify. Love it.

Not a word from you guys about the bigest pop band of all time ??

Great podcast keep up the good work

The Music From Big Pink episode was kind of hard to listen to because there is a ton of bad information here. The hosts got the names of Hawks songs wrong, over-priced the stay at Big Pink by $150 a night and let their guest ramble on about his own music for several minutes before getting to the topic at hand. George Harrison never lived at Big Pink. (He may have visited.) Garth did not find Levon’s drum kit. Robbie did not sing on Northern Lights, Southern Cross; he sang a studio song on The Last Waltz soundtrack. Their last album is called Islands. Robbie did not live in NYC when the other guys lived at Big Pink. He and his soon-to-be wife, Dominique, a French journalist (not his “model girlfriend”) lived on Grossman’s property in Woodstock. It’s not that Garth Hudson didn’t want to join The Hawks, he was concerned his parents would not accept him playing in a rock and roll band. To convince his parents, they told them he’d be giving lessons to the other members. Caledonia Mission is about The Hawks getting busted with drugs at the Canadian border. There’s some good analysis and opinion of the music, but you may want to double check any facts you hear on this podcast.

Omg, shut up! I was really looking forward to this series, but just all the rambling. I had to delete all 30 episodes. Just terrible. I was liking to hear about a lot of the albums and the history, but then just rambling forever.

It is a very good show, the guys are knowledgeable about the records and artists they review. You might agree or not with their opinions but that’s life. My main issue is with the persistent use of the word “like” when is not needed. After a while it can get annoying. The guys clearly have a good and extensive vocabulary so I don’t see the need to insist on the misuse of the word.

Thoughtful, intelligent, and informed analysis of some of the greatest albums ever recorded. An essential podcast for music lovers.

You guys should review Tool

As a former music journalist who left the business because the need to keep up/say something deep/not sound pretentious was getting me down, I'm very glad to have discovered Bill and Brian. Their discussions are enlightening without making the listener feel small (no mean feat in music journalism), and their depth of knowledge is broad but approachable. It's a fascinating and fun way to revisit some of my all-time favorite music; highly recommended.

I can’t believe they reviewed this album. So many of these albums are my middle school/high school soundtrack. Just hearing the small clips they played brought me back to senior year. This album was my secret find and scared my sister when I first played it. Definitely a podcast for thirty to forty somethings who want to stroll down memory lane. Watch out because you will want to find your old cds or buy new ones.

thanks for covering Robert Palmer's Clues, the man does not get his due as a creative musician, singer, producer and artist. You explored what made his work great in detail. Thanks again!

THIS is the only thing that can get me through my day to day. As a self taught musician, this podcast offers more than just production/compositional knowledge, it also provides a real way for me to connect with some of the long forgotten albums in my own childhood. I have listened to every episode a couple of times and I find something new each time I do, some little tidbit of info or personal reflection that really lends itself to my experiences as well. So, as the boys say ‘that is what makes a great album’.......constantly coming back and finding new things to love. Well done gentlemen and please keep the episodes coming!!

These guys talk about music in a very knowledgeable, conversational, and unrehearsed way. I feel like I am sitting in a room with a couple of my friends. I’ve revisited some great music and learned new things with each episode so far. Keep up the great work.

Good job with background detail and song analysis, especially if you are a musician. Have not reviewed a Stones album and the name is Greatest Albums?! Could do without the personal political input that occasionally happens. Overall a good listen.

Along with Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best...good one guys...even if you didn’t mention Nicol by name...had me laugh out loud in the gym today...the dirty looks from the muscleheads was totally worth it

I like how they cover all genres of music. They have insight on how albums are made and give some background on the artists. I’ve learned a lot about bands that I knew nothing about prior. Very informative and fun to listen to. Keep it up!

Check out the earliest pod casts. It especially shows in these earliest casts that they are fan boys.