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Final Episode_Pretty Hate Machine (WITH DECAY)_Reflections

The End.

A review and a look back.

It’s been over seven years since Marc and Steve brought on an intern  (Eric) to create a music review podcast.  Since then they covered every single NIN and Bowie song, and 42 separate albums by other artists ( plus related discographies).  The Trio has reached the end of the road, and they find themselves back at the starting line. 

Pod Like Hole’s pilot experiment, the first episode, was Nine Inch Nails' “Pretty Hate Machine”, but the Hole Boys didn’t really know what they were doing yet.  Blushing amateurs, they bungled a classic record.  In the spirit of setting things right in this jacked up universe, they will finish what they started.  But this time....they’ll get it right. (what year is this?)

Enjoy a track by track review of “Pretty Hate Machine” , and betwixt the analysis the guys will reflect on this project, their friendship, and the incredible listeners we’ve gotten to know over the better part of a decade. It's a loose, long goodbye.

As the bionic guitars of Ringfinger echo into the stratosphere, so do your hosts. While our friendship is eternal, this project has been canceled.   This is our goodbye.  But …..to quote Joe Strummer, (co-creator of our only perfectly scored record), “ The Future is Unwritten”….

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Artwork by the great Greg Wolgast.  Check out his you tube channel where he destroys every drum cover he does..in a good way :  https://www.youtube.com/@someroomtodrum

 

Read the new book by frequent guest Guy Mankowski’s, “You Complete the Masterpiece”

Buy on Amazon or even better your local bookstore

And be on the look out for “Lived Through This”  based on the journals of late Hole-bassist Kristen Pfaff. 

 

Listen to the incredible sophomore album by regular listener Michael Komonos , “My Mother and Child”.

https://michaelkonomos.bandcamp.com/

 

Our listeners have been the extra fuel to get this baby to 88 MPH, thanks for seven years of friendship. 

 

The Cure - Disintegration

This episode concludes our discussion of The Cure and this Pod Like a Hole season by analyzing the album Disintegration. Do we end the season on a sour note, or do we find ourselves whisked away to a world of wind chimes and thunderclouds rumbling in the distance? 

Just like one of the themes of the record, everything must come to an end. We thank you, faithful listeners, for following us as we talked for countless hours about our favorite music, artists, and bands in what felt, at times, a neverending project. We ain’t quite dead yet though. Stay tuned.

All good things…

 

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The Cure - Ranking the Discography

This episode discusses our individual rankings for the Cure's studio album discography. This conversation is a prelude to our next episode where we review track by track the album Disintegration. Let us know how we did on everything by finding us below.

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Pod Like A Hole - Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life - Part 2

This is the second of the two part Songs in the Key of Life episodes on the Pod Like a Hole Podcast. Picking up with Isn't she lovely, the hosts go deep into their notes and feelings about the second half of Stevie Wonder's opus

Editors note: This is the last time I drew the straw on editing an episode. We only have a handful left before wrapping the show up. YEARS of staying up late and cutting the conversations together of Eric, Marc, and I always re-reminded me why I've been pals with these guys for years. It was a joy and I'll miss doing it. 

Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life. Sides A and B.

Pod Like A Hole discusses Stevie Wonders' Songs In The Key of Life. The hosts touch on his other amazing 70s albums, the Wonder of Stevie Wonder, the TV Show the Curse, Weird Al, Wild Wild West,  and review Sides A and B of the album - track by track. 

Join us next time for side B and C. Followed by our final Podcasts that will cover Robert Smith's the Cure. 

Pod Like A Hole: Willie Nelson Part 2 of 2 - Red Headed Stranger Track by Track

On the 4th of July 2024, Pod Like A Hole is celebrating by uploading our discussion of Willie Nelson's The Red Headed Stranger. 

This concept album is a Sunday morning favorite in one of the hosts homes, and the boys seem to all agree that it's status as an All American Classic is no fluke. Willie bet on himself (and the talents of his sister Bobbi Nelson) and hit big. 

This is the 2nd and final episode in our Willie Nelson series. Remaining artists in this final season of Pod Like A Hole are Stevie Wonder and the Cure. In that order. 

 

Pod Like A Hole: Willie Nelson Part 1 of 2 - The man, the myth, the bandana.

Willie Nelson is many things: a lover, a traveler, a Texan, a guitar player, smoker, outlaw, hero, poet, fashion icon, actor, activist, philanthropist, gunslinger, wiseacre, animal lover, brother, father, husband (four times over), Hellraiser, braids and beard enthusiast, but most of all Willie is a friend to all. 

In this episode of Pod Like A Hole the hosts discuss the life and times of WIllie Nelson. His brushes with the leaf and the law, his multiple wives, his work as a public servant to the people and animals of America, his collaborations that cross genres and his work with the other Outlaw Country Heroes, and how he manages to be a man that for 91 years and counting is still making music and along the way has become a friend to almost everyone in every walk of life. 

We find time to touch on 10 or so of his standout albums (couldn't get to all 100+ of his records), and in the next episode we will dedicate the recording to his masterpiece: The Red Headed Stranger. 

 

Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Juju"

WE'VE GOT BATS IN OUR BELFRY!!!!! Grey would be the colour if we only had a way to colour-coat episodes.  It's Goth Month here on Pod Like a Hole, so get out your choker, get your eyeliner, and pick a safeword , we are covering Siouxsie and the Banshees and it is getting DARK.  

It is Intern Eric's final pick of the season, and does he go out with a bang or a whimper?  You be the judge.  It's the 1980 record that brought Siouxsie to a new level of rock.  Listen as your boys pick apart the  ground breaking licks from John McGeouch, basslines from Steve Severin, and poundings from Budgie.  And vamping up front, is the true queen of the dungeon, Siouxsie Sioux.  Your hosts go into the history of the band, discuss at what point post-punk became goth, and how inspirational this band ended up being.  Then its a track by track review of Juju.  

It's a whole episode of pain and pleasure.  The bitter and the sweet. 

Enjoy.  

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Pod Like A Hole: Mastodon Part 3 - Emperor of Sand Track by Track

Pod Like A Hole: Mastodon Part 3 - Emperor of Sand Track by Track

The hosts riff and theorize about the journey of the Wanderer as he goes toe to toe with the Sultan on Mastodon's 2017 release: Emperor of Sand.

 

This is the 3rd and final Mastodon episode in this Pod Like A Hole mini season. The first episode covered their history, the second was a discography overview, and the third is EOS.

 

Episode starts with news and recs, Mastodon talk starts about 25 minutes in.

 

While the discussion of Mastodon ends here and moves to either Stevie, WIllie, Sousixe, or Robert in the final Pod Like a Hole Podcasts - they will forever be in the lifetime rock rotation.

 

 

Pod Like A Hole: Mastodon Part 2 - Discography Round Table

In what is one of my favorite talks this podcast has had, the hosts walk through the entire Mastodon discography - short of the track by track talk of Emperor of Sand and a Cold Dark Place that will be the bulk of the next episode. Starts with Call of the Mastodon, ends with Hushed and Grim.

 

How many different ways can three 40ish Dads say "wow this album is great, oh and this album is also great" ? You will find out in this episode. Please do not turn this episode into a drinking game where you take a shot every time a comment is made on a great riff, or that you can't believe the drummer can sing that well, or that Brent Hinds is a special dude. You will go blind. 

 

*Editors note: Out of the four members we do not talk enough about what Bill Kelliher does to put this band over the top. That's what he gets for being the only one who doesn't hog the microphone but make no mistake, he's an all star riffer. 

 

This is episode 2 of a 3 part Mastodon Pod Like A Hole Mini Season.