Toph leads the discussion and review of Coldplay's 2005 album ‘X&T’ – including, as always, albums + songs on our radar and much more!

Welp, lots to cover today.  Let’s start with dead people…Nubs’ summer concert schedule…and kiss cams.  From there, we will get into everyone’s love of Human Resources, bad track sequencing, What’s Happenin' (the 80’s television program), whether or not The Wrestling Album was good, and whether or not The Coral Reefer Band playing Jimmy Buffet songs by themselves is a money grab or not.  But most importantly – and perhaps in the most important public safety message 2T&A has ever delivered: don’t…please don’t…do the “Concert Stand Behind” maneuver.  Ever.  It could cost you your career.  Just say no.

Nubs leads the discussion and review of U2’s 1997 album ‘Pop’ – including, as always, albums + songs on our radar and much more!

Pop or Not Pop?  The boys assess this piece which, regardless of your thoughts, bridged the industry from the 90s to the 2000s.  Then we all got scared of Y2K and such.  We all started thinking it would be our Last Night on Earth.  Okay that one was too easy.  Tune in as we dig into this mega release from this mega band, and whether or not the “reverse bookends” nature of it pleases the fellas.  Let’s go.

Toph leads the discussion and review of Fine Young Cannibals' 1989 album ‘The Raw & The Cooked’ – including, as always, albums + songs on our radar and much more!

Stop the presses...we did two episodes in 8 days!  Which makes us proud as pie.  Tune in to hear the boys discuss the sweet sultry (I guess) voice of Roland Gift, provide the story of how this "spin off" band came about, and play the strangest game in the history of 2T&A.  Will this episode be raw? Will it be cooked? Will it be a Gift?  Will it be a good thing?  Will we drive you crazy? Will you be satisfied?  Or will you take what you can get?  Regardless -- don't look back, and give episode 92 a listen.  It's ok.  It's alright.

Nubs leads the discussion and review of Backstreet Boys’ 1999 album ‘Millennium’ – including, as always, albums + songs on our radar and much more!

Well it’s been a bit – and what better way to say we’ve missed you, we love you, we can’t be without you, and we yearn for your touch and your kisses and your affection and the sky may fall but as long as its you and us together in the end it will be all worthwhile after all...than with episode 91.  Hey, I think we just wrote a song.  Join as we discuss the genre of the bands made up of boys – and how this album helped calm the fears of a Y2K catastrophe, and instead began the new century with good vibes.  Because we wanted it that way.  Get in!!

Episode 15 of Toph’s Top Five, the 2T&A spinoff sweeping the nation, focuses on a quartet from Georgia who liked to put on their harborcoats and play some sort-of rock and roll.  Mandolin sold separately.  

Episode 14 of Toph’s Top Five, the 2T&A spinoff sweeping the nation, focuses on a Charlottesville, Virginia's favorite South African son, David J. Matthews and his reggae band.  Don't burn the day away, listen to Toph's Top Five instead.  It'll make you smile.

Episode 13 of Toph’s Top Five, the 2T&A spinoff sweeping the nation, focuses on a trio from Buffalo (go Chiefs) -- who once saved the day for a young, bored Nubs and Toph as an opening act before anyone knew who they were.  True story.  Enjoy.

Episode 12 of Toph’s Top Five, the 2T&A spinoff sweeping the nation, focuses on a French-Canadian lady that could kinda sing.  She had some tres bien songs.  Tune in...maintenant!!

Episode 11 of Toph’s Top Five, the 2T&A spinoff sweeping the nation, focuses on a band that at one point played their instruments, and now that seems fairly optional.  So before I spend all my change on you...give this a listen.  Will make you smile.

Toph leads the discussion and review of Boston's 1994 album ‘Walk On’ – including, as always, albums + songs on our radar and much more!

The boys return with -- much like last episode -- a release outside of a band’s commercial peak, but with the distinctive sound and songwriting that made it sneaky commercially successful.  Join us as we plow through Boston’s fourth album -- as well as other topics including band feuds, a movie recco from Toph, making America great again, Emily Latella, and other worthwhile/worthless nuggets from your two favorite twin bozos.  We Need Your Love…So Surrender to Us…and let’s Walk On together through Episode 90.  I know that We Can Make It.

This one’s for Steve-O.

Stephen Thompson Young

May 29, 1982 - November 3, 2024

We'll miss you, big man.