Episode 074: METAL
(Featuring an hour of stoner, sludge, doom, proto, and just plain old Metal.)

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It’s no secret that I love rock music, and without a guitar in the mix, I’m often uninterested. But the deep dark secret that I often have trouble admitting is that, at the end of the day, I really am a metalhead. All those jazz records, lo-fi indie cassette releases, hours of Old Time Radio, and Mancini albums are really just a smokescreen for wanting to listen to the Slayer and Sabbath with a lava lamp and a tightly rolled J. My years trying to front as a hipper-than-thou ex-punk with an extensive musical vocabulary entirely betrayed the fact that the Melvins were, secretly, one of my all time favorite bands. Where there is loud music, beer, and a love of the riff, I am sure to follow, banging my head along the way.

However, recent months have found my show lacking in Vitamin M, and as much as I tried to increase the sludge ratio of my shows, it just wasn’t happening. With that in mind, I set out to do a full-on Metal show, stopping only long enough to bring you between-song banter on why this stuff is meaningful to me. Some of my first live concerts were hair metal shows my mom took me to (Bon Jovi, Skid Row, etc.), and I grew up with a healthy dose of Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Doors, all precursors to the music I would later learn to love. While I had a Sabbath album, and few other oddities here and there, it took a while for me to finally discover The Melvins, and after that, there was simply no hope. I was hooked for life, and have added this to the scads of other kinds of records I cannot live without.

This one rocks pretty hard, so I recommend grabbing a few Cold Ones, kicking it on the porch with a BBQ on the way, and thumb through the local paper with an eye for a dirty bar to rock out in. Really, it’s for your own good.

See ya in seven.

METAL
# Track * Artist * Album * Label
01.) Work Zombie [Excerpt] * Stinking Lizaveta * …hopelessness and shame. * Compulsive Records
02.) Another Fourth of July * Big Business * Here Come The Waterworks * Hydra Head Records
03.) Day One * Enemy Mine * The Ice In Me * Up Records
04.) Circle Of Servants Bodies * Saviours * Invaders * Kemedo Records
05.) Rip Van Winkle * Witch * Witch
06.) Nwobhm 2 * The Fucking Champs * IV * Drag City Records
07.) Be Forewarned * Pentagram * First Daze Here * Relapse Records
08.) Sweet Leaf * Black Sabbath * Master of Reality
09.) Serpent Venom * Bedemon * Child of Darkness
10.) Work Zombie * Stinking Lizaveta * …hopelessness and shame. * Compulsive Records
11.) Pink * Boris * Pink * Southern Lord Records
12.) Pistolwhipped / Plumbing Game * KARP * Freighty Cat EP * Atlas Records
13.) Elk Takes Night * Black Elk * Black Elk * Crucial Blast Records
14.) Nwobhm 2 [Excerpt] * The Fucking Champs * IV * Drag City Records
15.) The Bit * Melvins * Stag * EMI Records