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Black Heart Procession: ”Amore De Tropico”

Crashing waves. The warbling of a saw in the distance.  A suspicious waiter, and a dead lover.  It’s 2002 and your hosts, Eric, Steve and Marc, don their magnifying glasses, Panama hats, and Tommy Bahama shirts.  It’s a tropical musical mystery and your Pod Like a Hole hosts are asking the hard questions.  Who were “The Black Heart Procession”?  What was their hit album “Amore De Tropico” really about?  Who is that strange man bellowing about frozen peas?!  Your boys are on the case.  Listen to the episode as we dissect each track of this haunting album, dusting for prints and removing the clues.  We're sipping mai-tais, and breaking this case wide open.  

 

 

 

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Black Heart Procession - History

It's a cold November morning.  A dead leaf does a dance in front of your feet as you walk through the breeze.  You walk by a storefront, the newspaper headline is "Invasion of Afghanistan" another bitter reminder that the world is harsh.   The only evidence you are still alive is the steam in air as you breath.  But that steam is snuffed by the cold air.  Cold like the ice in your heart.  It's 2002 and you've just discovered Black Heart Procession, and all that pain gets a little better knowing this strange band, with it's saws and broken pianos, well they understand you.      In the next main episode of  Pod Like a Hole, your boys will time travel to when they first came together in their early 20s, and dissect Black Heart Procession's, "Amore De Tropico" .  But not yet, no if being a broken hearted sadsack has taught you one thing, it's patience.  No this week, we will dive into the history of Black Heart Procession, Pall Jenkins, Tobias Nathanial, Three Mile Pilot, early 00's indie rock, and the dying art of a good small club merch table.  We hope you enjoy the journey.                         Links:   Facebook (The only reason to visit that site) https://www.facebook.com/podlikeahole/   Instagram (Unfortunately, no pics of the hosts wearing short shorts) https://www.instagram.com/pod_like_a_hole_podcast/   Twitter (self-promo or oh no) https://twitter.com/podlikeahole Patreon (Until we muster up the courage for an OnlyFans site) https://www.patreon.com/join/podlikeahole Artwork by Greg Wolgast https://www.instagram.com/g.wolgast/

Lateralus

In this episode, we peel back the layers of the 2001 Tool album, Lateralus. We attempt to separate our minds from our bodies as we overthink and overanalyze every track on the record. Does Marc and Steve’s feelings of nostalgia outweigh Eric’s skepticism? Or will there be a developing schism on the pod?

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“Parabola”

 

 

 

Tool - History and Discography

In this episode, the hosts of Pod Like a Hole drive to the nearest Home Depot to go through every Tool aisle in the store to bring you this episode that needs no Home Improvement, if you ask me. 

 

We discuss all things Tool (the band, not saws and hammers) and everything that orbits the band. Next episode we squee-gee our third eye open to analyze the 2001 album, Lateralus. 

 

Until then, we hope this heaping helping of Tool talk tides you over. 

 

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• “Hush”
• “Sober”
• “Prison Sex”
• “Stinkfist”
• “AEnema”
• “Schism” 
• “Parabola”
• “Vicarious”
• “Opiate 2” (Clip)

Velvet Underground- ”Loaded”

Ride Into The Fun!  That's right it's a new episode , and your Hole Boys (Eric, Steve, Marc) are dimming the lights, chomping on cigarette holders,  turning on the lava lamps, painting some soup cans, rolling up their sleeves and numbing themselves with the proto-punk drone jams of the house band.  None other than Velvet Underground.  We cover their early Warhol-history, avant garde nightmares and softer 70s moods.  Then it's on to the Track by Track of their final 1970 album "Loaded".  Will they love it or will it be old hat?  Only a listen will tell you for sure.  

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Black Sabbath Conclusion - Ozzy, Dio and the Extended Family Side B

In this episode we continue around the table with 80's and 90's Black Sabbath Albums, the solo career of Ozzy (quite a bit of No More Tears love), as well as the solo efforts of Ronnie James Dio.

This is Part 3 of our Black Sabbath mini season. In the first episode we reviewed the Dio era album Heaven and Hell track by track. In the second we covered the classic run of Sabbath Albums from the 70's and Dio's pre-Sabbath work.

Come back next month for the Velvet Underground.

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Black Sabbath - Ozzy, Dio, and The Extended Family. Side A

In this episode we round table all the 70's Ozzy albums of Black Sabbath, Dio's pre-Sabbath years with Elf and Rainbow, as well as the Sabbath Heaven and Hell follow up with Dio: Mob Rules. 

 

We take some time to discuss the cast of characters that spun out of Sabbath's orbit in the 70s, but by the time we start talking about White Snake it becomes clear that's a whole podcast season unto itself. 

 

This is Part 2 of our Black Sabbath mini season. In the previous episode we reviewed the Dio era album Heaven and Hell track by track. 

Part 3 will round out our sabbath sessions with a look at Ozzy and Dio's solo careers, as well as those weird Sabbath albums with other singers. 

 

#blacksabbath #sabbathbloodysabbath #volume4 #sabotage #mobrules #masterofreality #podlikeahole #podcast #doom #metal #cocaine

 

Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell - Pod Like A Hole Podcast

"You've got to bleed for the dancer!"

 

New Episode of Pod Like A Hole: Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell - Featuring Ronnie James Dio on vocals. 

 

The meat of this episode is over an hour of discussing Heaven and Hell track by track. As well as our personal Sabbath journeys, Hellfest, Ozzy's new song, and of course the contrast of Ozzy's Zombie vocals against Dio's Operatic flourish. 

Eric Marc and Steve are joined by a special guest host - Rob from Portland, a man who has Black Sabbath credentials that will light your hair on fire. 

This is part one of a two part Sabbath series, next episode we will have a wild and woolly chat about Sabbath's discography and the other bands in their and Dio's orbit. 

 

"Anyone can write a song about saving the earth, but to do it on the epic scale of a Zelda game, you might meet reach more people"

 

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Fad Gadget - ”Under the Flag”

The year is 1982 and Frank Tovey (aka Fad Gadget) releases the album "Under the Flag", a thematic record tackling the stress of raising a child in a world of increasing threats of fascism.  We discuss the history of Fad Gadget and Frank Tovey and give this record the Track-by-Track treatment.  It's an important record to electronic, industrial, and synth pop genres, and a milestone for co-host Eric.  Will the others like it?  Hate it?  Dance?  Cover themselves in shaving cream and feathers.....and more importantly, dear listener, WILL YOU?  Listen and find out.  

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Mute Records Documentary:  "Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey"

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Life on the Line

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Depeche Mode - Ultra

We conclude our trilogy of talking Depeche Mode by reviewing and analyzing 1997's Ultra. Does it hold up to our feelings of nostalgia? Does it sag under all of its emotional baggage? Or is it somewhere in-between being both?

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Barrel of A Gun

It's No Good

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Useless

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