Spring Break Forever Podcast

Summer is here, good jams are coming from all directions, and the search for this year's perfect hot weather beer is on!  It's a lovely season to try out some wheat beers, shandies, and/or session ales as the guys run down 45s by Mac Blackout, Mary Monday & the Bitches, and The Crypt Keeper, plus LPs by The Shivvers, Pookie & the Poodles, and Warm Soda.  You might need at least a 6-pack to make it through the Styx album featured in this installment of Bobby's Crap Corner.  And you may wonder if your drink was dosed when you check out the psychedelic stylings of a certain Frankie Valli 45 that The Colonel has deemed to be a dollar bin diamond.

Also in this episode: The Colonel attempts to deliver a "state of the podcast" address, and in true spring break fashion is made to drink during this speech.  Stache(less) decides he would now like to be referred to as "Snacks Anderson."  Bobby's obsession with the movie "Streets of Fire" extends to Jim Steinman's excesses in the soundtrack.  The Colonel makes reference to the sci-fi tinged video for "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean.  Gonerfest 11 buzz begins with first lineup announcements.

Show #7 is lucky in that many records get reviewed with minimal derailment.  Stache(less) brings in a Wildman Steve LP with such a wonderful cover that discussion of the record's contents is completely unnecessary.  The Colonel reviews four new Guided By Voices singles from the "Cool Planet" LP and brings in a surprise celebrity 45 that prompts discussion of the recorded outputs of Clint Eastwood, Jack Palance, and Burt Reynolds.  Bobby covers the Slint box set, a Half Japanese 7" on Joyful Noise, Mother's Children "Lemons" LP, the Creepshow soundtrack reissue, and a split 12" with Destruction Unit, Milk Music, and Merchandise.  Black Abbey Champion and Founder's All Day IPA are tasted in this week's beer reviews.

Plus: Is Bobby Hazzard having a mid-mailbox crisis?

This debriefing on "record nerd Christmas" is better late than never, right?  Bobby and The Colonel hit Memphis for Record Store Day this year to score some special releases from New Zealand and enjoy some local brews from the Bluff City.  Stache(less) held things down in Nashville, eschewing the long shopping lines in favor of free beer and live bands.  RSD releases getting the nod include LPs by Spelling Mistakes, The Scavengers, La De Da's, Pagans live, retrospectives of Idle Race and The Moles, 7"s by Nirvana, Ron Jeremy, Milk & Cookies, Devo/Flaming Lips and Sonics/Mudhoney split 7"s, Dinosaur Jr. 7" box set, and "1990 Bronx Warriors" and "Last House on the Left" soundtrack LPs.

PLUS: This episode marks the maiden recording from the new Total BS Headquarters at Stately Hazzard Manor, nestled somewhere in the Bobbywood Hills.  The Colonel suspects some of his "residual fanciness" may be influencing Stache(less).  Jerry Lawler is fingered as a suspect in the unsolved mystery of who let the dogs out.  And was the advent of punk rock the most important moment in American music in 1977, or does that honor belong to "Disco Duck?"