ROCK AND/OR ROLL

In 2014 a certain record sold on ebay for $14,000. The lucky seller purchased the album at a Goodwill in New Hampshire for $1.00. As it turned out, very few copies existed because the majority of whatever had been pressed had most likely been shipped straight to a landfill by the label as a shady tax write off. And this wasn't a one-off scam.

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In BJ's opinion Bad Company were, well...bad. That is, until Brian Howe replaced singer Paul Rodgers in the mid-eighties. Then they were kind of good, for awhile. On this episode BJ tells the story of the band's awkward transition from the seventies to the eighties, and counts down his top ten favorite Bad Company songs...with Brian Howe.

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Originally released August 2015:

It was a great year for rock and roll so on this episode, which is episode number 89, BJ discusses not his top ten but his top fifteen favorite albums to be released in the corresponding year of 1989.

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Part four in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties.

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Part three in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties.

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Part two in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties.

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Part one in a four part series: BJ traces the demise of hard rock and heavy (hair? glam?) metal in the nineties.

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Originally released May 2016:

Burn a building! Burn! Burn! Burn! For this episode BJ is joined by frequent guest Greg Renoff, author of Van Halen Rising, to discuss Def Leppard's smash hit album from 1983.

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Originally released September 2013:

Holy shit, finally here it is, the Sunset Strip Part 2, 48 songs by the best, poppiest, glammiest bands to have infested the Strip in the eighties and early nineties, handpicked by BJ: his favorite songs by his favorite bands from that Sunset Strip glam scene. Have fun!

CANDY - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FUN

CANDY - AMERICAN KIX (LIVE)

DATA CLAN - GYPSY LOVE

FASTER PUSSYCAT - CITY HAS NO HEART

JETBOY - FEEL SO GOOD

AGENT X - RUN IF YOU CAN

HOT WHEELZ - THE SHAKE

PLAIN JANE - YOUNG WILD AND FREE

PLAIN JANE - HEAVEN

WARRANT - TEASE MACHINE

ROCK CITY ANGELS - TEENAGE LIPSTICK BOYS

RUBY SLIPPERS - DON'T TELL ME

ST. VALENTINE - HARD DAYS LONG NIGHTS

LICKITY SPLIT - TOO LATE FOR LOVE

TRASH COWBOYS - WHEN IT'S OVER

JUICY MISS LUCY - ONE WAY TICKET TO L.A.

BIG BANG BABIES - COME ON

ANGORA - GIVE ME A LINE

TUFF - SINNER STREET

ROUGH JUSTICE - CHEAP DISGUISE

PAIR A DICE - WHERE'S JENNY

ALLEYCAT SCRATCH - TAKE A BITE (OUTTA ME)

THE ZEROS - STICKY SWEET GIRLS

SWINGIN' THING - LET'S DO IT WITH THE LIGHTS ON

STARS FROM MARS - HIGH CLASS KICKS

STARS FROM MARS - STEAMIN' HOT PINK

STARS FROM MARS - WE GOT TONIGHT

TOMMI GUNN - FEEL THE HEAT

TOMMI GUNN - ON THE ROAD

WIKKED GYPSY - THE OTHER SIDE

WIKKED GYPSY - SAD SONGS

YOUNG GUNNS - SWEET LITTLE SINNER

SHOK L'AMOUR - LOVE AND LIES

SYANIDE KICK - YOUNG AND WILD

KRAYOLA KIDS - KRAYOLA ROCK N' ROLL

TRYX - YOU'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN ABOUT LOVE

GUTTERSLUTS - LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS

STRAWBERRY - GIRL I USED TO KNOW

HEART THROB MOB - PSYCHO

HEART THROB MOB - ATTITUDE

HEART THROB MOB - RUMOR

QUEENY BLAST POP - I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKIN'

QUEENY BLAST POP - SOMETHING THEY DON'T KNOW

FOXY ROXX - DO YOU REALLY LIKE IT?

BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUTZ - BEAUTY SCHOOL DROPOUTZ

PRESS DARLINGS - DOWN TO REST

AVANT GARDE - TONGUE OF FIRE

WARRANT - THIN DISGUISE

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