"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything," - Muhammad Ali

If there was ever a topic to bring back for a Volume 2, it's Top Ten Songs About Friendship. Fortunately for us, this is also a chance for an excellent hang with some of the friendliest people we know. Dustin Prince, Candi Bartlett, Vanessa Narad Axelsen and Mike Axelsen bring the fun and we get in our feels a bit too. Picks 10-6 are featured here in Part 1 of 2. 

Follow our fine-feathered friends on the Instagram:
Dustin  https://www.instagram.com/chrisdprince/
Candi  https://www.instagram.com/candipresents/
Vanessa  https://www.instagram.com/vanaxelsen/
Mike  https://www.instagram.com/mikeyaxelicious/
Also Candi and Vanessa's fab podcast Chacharone!
https://www.instagram.com/chacharonepodcast/

Go the extra mile! Support this independently produced podcast by joining our Patreon. Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 31 came out on September 1st, with a super fun playlist provided by our friends Matt Dinan and Melanie Laresen! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

The concept of the Secret Original Recording has us thinking. If there are songs out there with recordings that languished in obscurity for years if not decades, before being introduced to the masses with a great cover version, what's to stop this from happening again at any time? There are literally millions of songs out in the world, and maybe they're just waiting for the right singer or band or producer to bring them out of the darkness and into music history. We're rooting for you, songs! It was an absolute blast to have the great Giovanny Blanco back on the pod for one last go-around, and we made the most of it with this excellent topic. Top Ten Secret Original Recordings Volume 3 Part 2 features the top half of our list of buried treasures.

If you missed all the fun we had in Part 1, start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-737-top-ten-secret-original-recordings-volume/id573735994?i=1000788288349

Please enjoy the Top Ten Secret Original Recordings Volume 3 playlist, with every song heard in parts 1 & 2:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1A5hiUfDK6hkLHxE14mdw2?si=4466da8bb65e4e0f

Volumes 1 and 2 are available at the ATTT archives!
Vol 1 w/Joe Lavelle:
https://www.mixcloud.com/beneisen/all-time-top-ten-episode-104-top-ten-secret-original-recordings-wjoe-lavelle/
Vol 2 w/Morty Coyle:
https://www.mixcloud.com/beneisen/episode-304-top-ten-secret-original-recordings-volume-2-wmorty-coyle/

Who doesn't want more Gio? The hardest working man in the Valley, our special guest has his hands in so many projects, you'll get dizzy trying to follow. Try it anyway by following him on the gram:
https://www.instagram.com/therealgiovannyblanco/

Go the extra mile! Support this independently produced podcast by joining our Patreon. Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 31 came out on September 1st, with a super fun playlist provided by our friends Matt Dinan and Melanie Laresen! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

Top Ten Secret Original Recordings is a simple enough concept – a great song has a version that everybody knows and loves, but unbeknownst to the masses, the song had a previous life where it languished in obscurity for years, or even decades. Here in TTSOR Volume 3, our good friend Giovanny Blanco is back for his final appearance on All Time Top Ten with another batch of these musical gems that are sometimes as good if not better than the versions that made them famous. Picks 10-6 are revealed here in Part 1 of 2.

Volumes 1 and 2 are available at the ATTT archives!
Vol 1 w/Joe Lavelle:
https://www.mixcloud.com/beneisen/all-time-top-ten-episode-104-top-ten-secret-original-recordings-wjoe-lavelle/
Vol 2 w/Morty Coyle:
https://www.mixcloud.com/beneisen/episode-304-top-ten-secret-original-recordings-volume-2-wmorty-coyle/

Who doesn't want more Gio? The hardest working man in the Valley, our special guest has his hands in so many projects, you'll get dizzy trying to follow. Try it anyway by following him on the gram:
https://www.instagram.com/therealgiovannyblanco/

Go the extra mile! Support this independently produced podcast by joining our Patreon. Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 31 came out on September 1st, with a super fun playlist provided by our friends Matt Dinan and Melanie Laresen! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

We sincerely hope that we haven't committed blasphemy in the eyes of those in the Church Of Pete. We love The Who! We love Pete, Roger, John and Keith and we really love Tommy. Doing our Classic Albums Worst To First treatment to the songs on Tommy seems crazy, but it was a really fun way for us to dig into the guts of a great album, and appreciate each song on its own merit. My mom, the great Elizabeth Eisen was super jazzed about this idea so we had to do it. The top half of the list is featured here in Part 2, with picks 12-1 - the best songs on Tommy, and some truly incredible songwriting and musical performances.

If you missed Part 1, start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-735-classic-albums-worst-to-first-tommy-part/id573735994?i=1000785531466

Elizabeth is always working on her amazing artwork. Check it out at:
https://www.instagram.com/eeisenaugust/

Go the extra mile! Support this independently produced podcast by joining our Patreon. Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 31 is coming on September 1st, with a super fun playlist provided by our friends Matt Dinan and Melanie Laresen! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

Warning! We here at All Time Top Ten are about to commit musical crime. We’re about to take one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th Century and change it. We have all of the reverence in the world for Pete Townshend and The Who, so please forgive us! ATTT Classic Albums Worst To First is our chance to go deep into the guts of a great album, and rearrange things. Doing this to The Who’s Tommy is almost sacrilege, because it tells such a compelling, linear story, but Elizabeth Eisen aka my dear mother, is ready and willing! All 24 songs are ranked using our patent-pending Worst To First format, with picks 24-13 highlighted here in Part 1 of 2.

Elizabeth is always working on her amazing artwork. Check it out at:
https://www.instagram.com/eeisenaugust/

If you can't get enough Elizabeth Eisen, consider signing up for ATTT's Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 30 is here - featuring my parents Paul & Elizabeth Eisen, it dropped August 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

One of the best things about doing this podcast is when we get to put ourselves in a place and time. For Top Ten Essential College Rock Bands, our special guests Jeremy Levy and David Robinson have put us in the rockin' college town of Columbia, MO and landed us squarely in the heart of the Essential College Rock Bands timeline - the 80s and early 90s. It's been a blast digging into this topic made up of groups of incredibly creative artists doing their own thing in the face of Reagan-era blandness and corporate consolidation. This is the true rock underground of the era and the link between punk and 90s alternative. Bands 5-1 are revealed here in part 2 of 2. Viva College Rock!

If you missed all the fun we had in Part 1, start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-733-top-ten-essential-college-rock-bands-part/id573735994?i=1000781956531

Get in the wayback machine with the official Top Ten Essential College Rock Bands playlist, featuring every band we highlighted in Parts 1 & 2, bumper bands included:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/14MeUVvBWzRnGOwi2Z0URU?si=0919a19f58514625

Keep up with everything fun Jeremy and David are getting up to by following them on the gram:
Jeremy - https://www.instagram.com/jewgravy/
David - https://www.instagram.com/thedoctorrobinson/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 30 is here - featuring my parents Paul & Elizabeth Eisen, it dropped August 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

Mainstream culture in the 1980s was a Ronnie Reagan wet dream. Conformity and corporate consolidation made for a rough time for unique artists looking to have their voices heard. Luckily, there was college radio, and a glowing underground rock scene featuring a truly eclectic collection of bands. ATTT is honored to welcome back our good friend Jeremy Levy and pod newbie David Robinson. Jeremy and David lived the life of College Rock, as DJs and scenesters in the late 80s and early 90s in Columbia, Missouri, one of America's premier college towns with a great local radio station. Top Ten Essential College Rock Bands takes us back to those heady times when being weird was a Kool Thing, if you knew about it. Picks 10-6 are featured here in Part 1 of 2.

Keep up with everything fun Jeremy and David are getting up to by following them on the gram:
Jeremy - https://www.instagram.com/jewgravy/
https://www.instagram.com/thedoctorrobinson/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 30 is here - featuring my parents Paul & Elizabeth Eisen, it dropped August 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

Call your cable com-pan-ee and say I WANT MY M-T-V! Did we Gen-Xers know who good we had it in the 80s and 90s? Music! On television 24 hours a day! What could be better? At the stroke of midnight, August 1st, 1981, the flag was planted and the declaration declared - "Ladies and gentlemen, rock n roll!" The music video revolution was all-encompassing back in MTV's heyday. They had pop culture in the palms of their hands. Our beloved all-stars - namely Shannon Hurley, Dustin Prince, Matt Dinan, Joe Lavelle, David Daskal, Gabe Scalone and the Old Boy Himself Ryan Blake - are here to join us in the wayback machine, back to that first hour of what would be a cultural juggernaut. The First Hour Of MTV Worst To First is our definitive ranking of the set of eclectic songs whose videos helped to launch MTV 45 years ago this week. Here we have the cream of the crop in Part 2 of 2, with the best songs on the list, ranked.

If you missed all the fun we had in Part 1, start here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-731-the-first-hour-of-mtv-worst-to-first-part/id573735994?i=1000778529507

If nothing else, MTV brought the variety. See what we mean with the official The First Hour Of MTV Worst To First playlist, featuring every song heard in parts 1 & 2*.
* except "Little Suzi's On The Up"**
**don't worry we included the Tesla version
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ARNoAD3jeOD0SLT8jjtlx?si=e3c5a9d4efda46d4

Follow our fabulous all-stars on the socials!
Shannon: https://www.instagram.com/shannonsongs/
Dustin: https://www.instagram.com/chrisdprince/
Matt: https://www.instagram.com/the_la_frankenstein_channel/
Joe: https://bsky.app/profile/joelavellesongs.bsky.social
David: https://www.facebook.com/xyzyx
Gabe: https://www.facebook.com/gabescalone
Ryan: https://www.instagram.com/soulsurfhb/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 30 is coming soon - featuring my parents Paul & Elizabeth Eisen, dropping August 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

It’s that time of year again, folks! The time has come to summon the ATTT All-Stars for another one of our patented over-the-top All-Stars episodes. Longtime listeners of the show know how this goes. Shannon Hurley, Dustin Prince, Matt Dinan, Joe Lavelle, David Daskal and Gabe Scalone are on hand, and fans of the Old Boy Himself Ryan Blake fear not, he’ll be joining us for Part 2 of this mega episode. It’s the All-Stars, and they’re here to help us celebrate the 45th anniversary of the birth of MTV. On August 1 st, 1981 at the stroke of midnight, the world of music and popular culture at large would never be the same, as MTV was born. We’re getting in the wayback machine and taking a look at the videos played during the first hour of MTV, and we’re ranking the songs using our patent pending Worst To First format. Part 1 of 2 features the bottom of our list, and picks 16-9. Things start off rough but as we do with the Worst To First format, the songs get better and better as we go along. WE WANT OUR MTV!

Follow our fabulous all-stars on the socials!
Shannon: https://www.instagram.com/shannonsongs/
Dustin: https://www.instagram.com/chrisdprince/
Matt: https://www.instagram.com/the_la_frankenstein_channel/
Joe: https://bsky.app/profile/joelavellesongs.bsky.social
David: https://www.facebook.com/xyzyx
Gabe: https://www.facebook.com/gabescalone
Ryan: https://www.instagram.com/soulsurfhb/

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 30 is coming soon - featuring my parents Paul & Elizabeth Eisen, dropping August 1st! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8

Where would Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have ended up if not for the cream of the crop musicians that they tortured, uh I mean produced on those incredibly perfect Steely Dan records? Nowhere fast. The Steely Dan all-stars should have their own movie! The best we can do here is give them their own episode, and reach out to the greatest if not the coolest Steely Dan fan we know, the surprisingly delightful Oscar Jordan. We get back into our top ten list, with All-Stars 5-1 highlighted here in Top Ten Steely Dan All-Stars Part 2.

If you missed all the fun we had in Part 1, start here first:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-729-top-ten-steely-dan-all-stars-part-1-w-oscar-jordan/id573735994?i=1000776581201

The official Top Ten Steely Dan All-Stars playlist is chocked full of great musical moments from The Dan and otherwise, 27 songs and over 2 hours long, featuring every song heard in Parts 1 & 2. As Oscar says, bring a diaper.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1A53zghA9OCCCiy3XQqoQq?si=2da30e3a77c145b7

We've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air with no preparation! Emergency Pod 29 is out now, featuring the legendary Rick Torres! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetopten

We're having a blast chatting about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation about music! https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

The official ATTT1000 In Reverse playlist is here, featuring our list of the 1,000 Greatest Songs We've Ever Heard, presented in reverse order - from 1 - 1,000. Follow along here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dlj1XfYJdciz6GIORYWkM?si=74d675e86ba342f8