10 Albums

Glen and I go over our 32-Grunge-Album Tournament Brackets for the upcoming 'Summer of Grunge' tournament to crown the "Best Grunge Album of All Time" :

Bracket I :

Dirt v Houdini
Badmotorfinger v Vitalogy
Nevermind v Core
In Utero v Apple
Screaming Life v Jar of Flies
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge v Ragged Glory
Gish v American Thighs
8 Way Santa v Come On Down

Bracket 2 :

Louder Than Love v Fromstomp
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness v Purple (STP)
Ten v Dry As a Bone
Singles - soundtrack v Mad Season
Facelift v Bleach
Siamese Dream v Vs (Pearl Jam)
Superunknown v Temple of the Dog
Superfuzz Bigmuff v Live Through This

Tip of the cap to :
Babes in Toyland, L7, Screaming Trees....as well as Pearl Jam - 'No Code', Radiohead - 'Pablo Honey', Weezer's blue album...
Also the almost, but not quite fitting the bill : Kyuss and Live

**Also want to consider Foo Fighters as more of a 'post-grunge' band.

...on a final side-note : does Bush - 'Sixteen Stone' deserve to be on this list? Thoughts?

hit us up at [email protected] if you have any feedback!!!

Dustin's final component to his #10Albums is, of course, the #HonourableMentions :

1 : Boyz 2 Men - 'Cooleyhighharmony'
2a, 2b : A Day to Remember - 'Homesick' and 'Common Courtesy'
3 : Destroy Rebuild Until God Show - 'D.R.U.G.S.'
4 : Billy Joel - 'An Innocent Man'
5 : Say Anything - '...Is A Real Boy'

Thanks Dustin!!

Check him out at :
www.stepuptogreatness.com

The Greatness Facilitator is in the house! And he brought a very diverse list covering many genres and many time periods - loaded with great stories, of course.

Part 1 includes albums 1-5 :

1 : Michael Jackson - 'Bad'
2 : Vanilla Ice - 'To the Extreme'
3 : The Used - 'Vulnerable'
4 : NF - 'The Search'
5 : 2pac : 'All Eyez on Me'

Part 2 (this episode) includes 6-10 :

6 : Neil Young - 'Freedom'
7 : 112 - 112
8 : Joe Firstman - 'The War of Women'
9 : Foo Fighters - 'One by One'
10 : You + Me - 'Rose Ave.'

**stay tuned for the next episode where we go into the #honourablementions !!

https://www.stepuptogreatness.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-unstuck-a-step-up-to-greatness-podcast/id1338609138

The Greatness Facilitator is in the house! And he brought a very diverse list covering many genres and many time periods - loaded with great stories, of course.

(spoiler : there is a great story involving a young Dustin doing a dance performance to a Michael Jackson song ;)

Part 1 includes albums 1-5 :

1 : Michael Jackson - 'Bad'
2 : Vanilla Ice - 'To the Extreme'
3 : The Used - 'Vulnerable'
4 : NF - 'The Search'
5 : 2pac : 'All Eyez on Me'

https://www.stepuptogreatness.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coming-unstuck-a-step-up-to-greatness-podcast/id1338609138

Summer is (almost) here!
Due to the ratings we seem to get from our 90s themed content - we've decided to host a 32 Album Tournament Bracket to crown the "#1 Grunge Album of All Time" ..which will culminate at summers end.

Hope everyone is healthy and safe and enjoying the opening-up of everything again!

(and a special shout-out to the listeners in India! We get some great rating out your way and very much appreciate it:)

Jon Morgan is a child of the 90s - and it shows with his picks.

Very solid list here, Jonny! ..always enjoy talking this era of music..

Jon is a drummer and was in numerous bands here in the local Edmonton music scene over the years, as well as a supporter of the local bands albums - he has been known to set up at Flea Markets and other such vendors with bands' CDs and vinyl, helping them sell their music and get the word out.

#10albums :
Rage Against the Machine - 'Evil Empire'
Gate - 'Lost'
Ace of Base - 'The Sign' (his first album he ever owned, so cut him some slack)
Tool - 'Lateralus'
Soundgarden - 'Superunknown'
Massive Attack - 'Mezzanine'
Sublime - '40oz to Freedom'
Mr. Bungle - 'California'
Daft Punk - 'Musique Vol.1'
Radiohead - 'The Bends'

#guiltypleasures :
The B-52s - 'Time Capsule'
Batman Forever Soundtrack

The Music God, CJ Plain comes to the show today and he did not come alone...
He brings the wood with a very diverse collection of #10albums, along with his 2 #hm Honourable Mentions!

Check out CJ's podcast, 'The Noize Report' :
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-noize-report-1857529

#hm1 : Boston - 'Boston'
#hm2 : Soundtrack to 'Iron Eagle'

10 : Midnight Star - 'No Parking on the Dance Floor'
9 : Slade - 'Slade'
8 : Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - 'Dealing With It!'
7 : Ice T - 'Power'
6 : Motley Crue - 'Shout At the Devil'
5 : Exodus - 'Impact is Imminent'
4 : Pink Floyd - 'The Final Cut'
3 : Prince - 'Purple Rain'
2 : Mother Love Bone - 'Apple'
1: Michael Monroe - 'Not Fakin' It'

Toby Wright is back for part 2 of our interview, but this time he brought his business partner - Jason Sakowski!

We get the scoop on this state of the art audio sleep and healing aid that these 2 have developed, produced and marketed to the world.

TAUMMHOMS (pronounced tomes)

Off the site :
"It’s no secret that sleep is an essential part of living healthy, productive lives. In fact, studies show that sleepless nights or insomnia can disrupt blood sugar levels, weaken the immune system, block arteries, and cause psychiatric conditions including anxiety and depression.
That’s where we come in! Welcome to Taummhoms, a one-of-a-kind, natural sleep remedy and sound healing portal.
Using original binaural beats frequencies—composed by Grammy Award Winning Producer, Toby Wright— our customizable, on-demand streaming service is designed to lull you to sleep in 30 minutes or less. Ready to give it a go?"

Make sure to check Taummhoms out today, as well as the rest of Toby's projects :

https://www.taummhoms.com

https://www.tobywrightmusic.com/discography

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2vyCbhEoPVq2e-JgqYs_g

https://www.facebook.com/echorangeband/

4x Grammy Award Winning Producer - Toby Wright joins us today to talk about his amazing, unparalleled 40+ years in the music industry!

If you are a fan of hard rock, metal or 90s grunge - there is a very good chance you know this man's work.

So honoured to be able to run through some highlights of his career and pick his brain on the state of music these days... great guest, very humble guy considering the career he has had.

From his New York beginnings at Electric Lady Studios, to engineering '...And Justice for All' by Metallica at One-on-One Studios in LA...to producing Alice in Chains from 1993 onwards...seriously - check out his titanic discography ..its a who's who of hard rock for the era!

Join us for Part 2 where we discuss his latest innovative musical endeavour - a sleeping and healing portal known as 'Taummhoms'.

See the links below for Toby's many projects :

https://www.tobywrightmusic.com/discography

https://www.taummhoms.com

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2vyCbhEoPVq2e-JgqYs_g

https://www.facebook.com/echorangeband/

For a certain kind of music lover, there’s nothing more alluring than a “lost” album. Unlike a record that was merely “scrapped” or “never released,” the term suggests something both mysterious and not worth losing—especially when that album is fabled to be particularly emotionally raw, and especially when the artist who created it is beloved precisely for his rawness, but also for his reticence. “Sometimes life hurts,” Neil Young wrote in a blog post announcing that he was finally releasing Homegrown, an album that’s something of a unicorn among the sort of fans who read his Times-Contrarian newspaper. “This is the one that got away.” -Pitchfork.com Fantastic addition to Neil Young's catalogue !! A must for any fan.