This week Mike and Rod look back at their first 30 episodes and pit every record they’re discussed to date against each other until only two remain.   30+ albums enter, 2 emerge as champions.  See who still stands at the end of episode 31!    huntsmanhill.com

This week we’re back to our regular format where 3 is the Magic Number.  No guest hosts, no lists, no themes and no Vinyl Cages,  just Mike, Rod and one album.  And what an album it is,  De La Soul’s 1989 debut 3 Feet High and Rising broken down track by track, groove by groove, sample by sample.  Spoiler:  It’s incredible.   The Llamas are ok.         Recommend Listening:   The Jungle Bothers  Straight Out the Jungle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_out_the_Jungle   Handsome Boy Modeling  So...How’s Your Girl? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So..._How%27s_Your_Girl%3F   Prince Paul  A Prince Among Thieves  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prince_Among_Thieves   Gorillaz  Demon Days https://open.spotify.com/album/0bUTHlWbkSQysoM3VsWldT    The Bird and the Bee   Interpreting the Masters Vol 1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreting_the_Masters_Volume_1:_A_Tribute_to_Daryl_Hall_and_John_Oates     huntsmanhill.com

To celebrate it’s 30th anniversary we dive into one of the most iconic rock records of all time.  Mike, Rod and regular contributor Glenn P. are joined by their long time friend and complete U2 fanatic Pat C. who adds a ton of insight into the band and record.  Things start out friendly enough until Pat threatens to stab Mike in the neck with a pencil and then chaos ensues.  Enjoy! 

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VIVA LAS VEGAS!!!  The annual punk rock happening is now in it’s 20th year and Rod & Glenn were there as usual.  We get their full report, aching bones, bruised livers and all.  https://punkrockbowling.com   Recommend Listening: Bouncing Souls https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mvTAjG7rcyk7DQzLwauzV   Hepcat https://open.spotify.com/album/5n7IeJHvlLtCo3HW5vgCqu   Recommended Viewing: Gimmie Danger:   http://www.gimmedangerfilm.com   The New York Hardcore Chronicles: http://www.thenewyorkhardcorechroniclesfilm.com   Recommended happenings: Frankie’s Tiki Room:   http://frankiestikiroom.com     huntsmanhill.com

For our second list episode we dig into our roots to discuss Southern California Punk.  We’re joined for the third week in a row by our brother that remains behind the Orange Curtain, Glenn P. and after 26 episodes with barely a disagreement it all go sideways when Rod picks a controversial record as his number four.     You can hear selects from our picks and our SoCal Punk Hall of Fame here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44   huntsmanhill.com

After Glenn Danzig essentially created the Horror Punk genre as the leader, voice and songwriter for the Misfits and combining punk and goth with Samhain and before he was getting knocked out in YouTube videos, immortalized in internet memes carrying Tidy Cat boxes across strip mall parking lots or being parodied in the hilarious Henry & Glenn Forever comic book he was putting out a great debut record from his third classic band simply called “Danzig.”  It sounded fresh and unique at the time but does it hold up?  Find out what Mike, Rod and regular guest Glenn P. think.     Recommended Listening    Run DMC Tougher Than Leather  https://open.spotify.com/album/5opAMGIf8Hn7xIaTPdHFDv   Less Than Zero Soundtrack:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_Than_Zero_(soundtrack)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_Than_Zero_(soundtrack) https://www.discogs.com/Various-Less-Than-Zero-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/master/37324   Jonesy’s Jukebox: Glenn Danzig in-Studio http://www.jonesysjukebox.com/archive   Ryan Adams Mother Live  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoydvIuJ7g   Tiddy Cat http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/danzig-doesnt-talk-kitty-litter   Book “Misery Obscura:  The Photography of Eerie Von” https://www.bazillionpoints.com/shop/preorder-misery-obscura-the-photography-of-eerie-von-1981-2009-by-eerie-von-ships-late-nov-2016/

Whatever you think about them today, once upon a time Metallica were considered extreme and slightly scary.  They introduced the NWOBHM, the Misfits, GBH and HP Lovecraft to millions of disenfranchised suburbanites from Orange County to Skokie Illinois and changed the way kids heard heavy music.  They were never more influential than between 1984 and 86 when they were at the height of their powers.  For this episode we attempt the impossible by pitting their two masterpieces, 84’s Ride The Lightning against 86’s Master of Puppets against each other and see which one is still standing after a heated track-by-track battle.   Recommended Listening    Ride the Lightning https://open.spotify.com/album/2omIeSJEGQeKHPOpiXgfkr   Master of Puppets https://open.spotify.com/album/6HrJ1inCYhLfhENJlNbSEf   huntsmanhill.com

ATDI are back with in-ter a-li-a which was just released on May 5.  For this episode though,  we travel back seventeen years to their previous release, 2000.s Relationship of Command.  It’s still heavy and fast and glorious and still completely holds up for Mike who hasn’t stopped listening to it since the day it came out .  However, this was a new one for Rod.  Check out his thoughts.  They might surprise you (but probably not).   Recommended Listening    De Facto Megaton Shotblast (2001) https://www.discogs.com/De-Facto-Megaton-Shotblast/release/701357   Le Butcherettes Sin, Sin, Sin (2011)   https://open.spotify.com/album/42nRuoDUiR03E4oc4qdnZ3   Burning Airlines Mission: Control!!! (1999) https://open.spotify.com/album/4iTf9XpkyGN4kioqruIFTL   Murder City Devils In Name and Blood (2000)  https://open.spotify.com/album/6KqbbY3lP0MXDxbpEE6nyF

Coachella 2017 is now behind us and coming off of the heels of their Friday headlining sets we discuss Radiohead’s 1997 masterpiece OK Computer.  Hard to believe that this record is 20 years old when it doesn’t seem to have aged a day.  It remains extremely listenable, entreating, provocative and innovated.  Check out our deep dive into the particulars.   Recommended Listening:   Soundtrack There Will Be Blood  https://open.spotify.com/album/0K7xCNs6QjWl1B2mPKCnk3   R.E.M. Up  https://open.spotify.com/album/5AfgJ4mjGvANakNjGrKGgy   Asian Dub Foundation Rafi’s Revenge  https://open.spotify.com/album/6KqbbY3lP0MXDxbpEE6nyF

To celebrate Kendrick Lamar’s triumphant headlining sets at Coachella over the past couple of weekends and his incredible new album DAMN,  this week we are tackling his 2012 sophomore LP good kid m.A.A.d. city.   It’s our most current record up for discussion to date so no real need to determine whether or not it still holds up but how heavy is our heavy rotation and how does Kendrick fare against other modern day Hip Hop greats?   His boast on Big Sean’s Control sums it up perfectly…   "Who's the best MC? Kendrick, Jigga and Nas
Eminem, Andre 3000, the rest of ya'll
New niggas just new niggas, don't get involved
And I ain't rockin no more designer shit
White T's and Nike Cortez, this is red corvettes annonymous
I'm usually homeboys with the same niggas I'm rhymin with
But this is hip hop and them niggas should know what time it is
And that goes for Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale
Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake
Big Sean, Jay electron', Tyler, Mac Miller
I got love for you all but I'm tryna murder you niggas.”   Recommended Listening    Kamasi Washington  The Epic (2015)  https://open.spotify.com/album/4zL37mRrfNJHdKmA3viwQ9   ScHoolboy Q Blank Face LP (2016) https://open.spotify.com/album/0YbpATCIng8Fz2JrfHmEf7   Thundercat Drunk (2017) https://open.spotify.com/album/2KNtTNm0nuDD22Ubnc7tfa   Disable Planets Reachin’ (A New Refutaion of Times And Space (1993) https://open.spotify.com/album/5snUbps5KleLIP0cVI72lP   huntsmanhill.com