Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Bad Brains revolutionized the DC punk scene by being consistently adversarial and unpredictable. The fellows get together to discuss hair metal, prog noise solos, and Rastafarian-ism.

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Next week's album: The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus

Special bonus: we made an album - hear us, the musicians and producers tell the backstory - first of The Ghostbusters film that was our inspiration, and then of how we made Stay Puft together. And - we announce the winners of our listener contest!

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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected stories behind the making of your favorite albums. Happy (almost) New Year! In order to take a little break for the holidays we've painstakingly compiled our funniest mean tweets from the entire year, then we got together at our annual holiday party and listened to them together as a team. We hope you enjoy it (we certainly did, as you will hear) and we'll be backing to reviewing a 1001 Album list pick next week to kick off 2026

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Next week's album: Carpenters - Close to You

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Taylor grew up on a Christmas tree farm and moved to Nashville to become a country star before ditching it all to become the pop princess marketing maven the world knows today. The boys get together to talk about Taylor hooky lines, and Max Martin's production stamp, the Swiftie community's connection to Phish-heads.

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Next week's album: (after Best Tweets of 2025) Bad Brains - I Against I

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. The Jesus and Mary Chain started as warring brothers with a port-a-studio and ended up on Top of the Pops while helping kick off the Glasgow music scene of the 1980s. The boys welcome a special guest to help make sense of this band and discuss hypnosis, vintage fuzz pedals, and fighting your audience as a marketing strategy.

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Next week's album: Taylor Swift - 1989

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Meat Loaf met his soulmate Jim Steinman on stage in New York and the two set about crafting the most over-the-top theatrical rock opera of an album ever produced. The only problem? No one wanted it....until everyone did. The boys get together to discuss piano prodigies, excessively long songs, and ripping 70s guitar.

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Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Tom Petty came up in the swamps of Florida playing tiny clubs and sock hops before heading to LA and making his fortune. The boys talk about perfect background vocals, questionable key choices, and the scrappy rock band era of a generational artist.

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Next week's album: Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell

Musicians recount the strange and unexpected story behind the making of your favorite albums. Queens of the Stone Age were birthed from a desert party culture deep in the southern California dunes and rose to success on a wave of heavy, fuzzed out rock and roll. The guys welcome a special guest to discuss building suspense, playing outside and big chorus payoffs.

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Next week's album: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers