BEST ALBUM EVER

It's a bad morning. Kyle is sleepy Alan failed at his bread bake. They watched Empire Strikes Back and are depressed now. New singles by Phoebe Bridgers, The Wold Is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid To Die, HAIM, Brye, The Midnight, Oliver Tree are reviewed. Along with older albums by Weezer and Oathbreaker that they just never seemed to get into and want figure out,.. does it slap? Grab your lightsabers and copy of The Communist Manifesto, it's time for BEST ALBUM EVER!

May the 1st might be our favorite holiday, but May the 4th is a close second. Today is the start of our Star Wars discussion. We also cover new music from Melt Yourself Down and I Am The Shotgun. Whats the worst Song ever? Kyle and Alan figured it out for you!

what fucking day is it?

Kyle and Alan are trapped in NYC together trying to avoid "The Corona". Talks ensue about Hayley Williams and Soccer Mommy, immortality in The Lord of The Rings, and finally what we like best about Kind of Like Spitting and Brand New. Also Kyles top 5 favorite bands with "new" in their name.

Kyle and Alan talk getting jacked and playing video games, review Pinegrove 2020, Mac Miller 2020, talk about the LOTR movies and finish it up with a discussion on Chad VanGaalen and Childish Gambino. Jump in nerds, we're Best Album Ever.

BIGGER! SHORTER! BETTER! MORE STAR WARS! GET INTO IT

Season 2 finale. Kyle and Alan talk favorites of the year. Get into it!

it's the last episode before the season finale? what's that called again? A Demi-finale? Anyways. It's about Pop Punk and a playlist Kyle and Alan made with all the songs we like best from the genera.

It's everybody's favorite time in music. The 90's! Kyle and Alan made playlist with their favorite songs on the decade. You know the drill by now. push play. grab your Reebok's and favorite oversized flannel. Put season 7 of The Simpsons on and open a Surge!

Alan asks Kyle Lord of the Rings questions and they talk about playing with He Is Legend. Less said here the better. Just put it in your ear holes!

It's the "meeting the mentor" part of the hero's journey in Kyle and Alan's life. Metalcore, the best? the worst? the mediocre? yes! Breakdowns are dumb. Crowd killing is wack. It's a musical genera equivalent of the Incel subreddit and we are talking about it!

Surprise! It's the angsty white bois from the burbs getting ready to break stuff. It's a Nu metal playlist review. Kyle and Alan were young enough to be all about that life in the late 90's and decided to dive in and find out what it was that they loved about the genera.

Like a David Foster Wallace Novel. Or maybe just that bio pic with Marshall and Lex Luther driving around trying to sell books maybe? They eat junk food and pontificate about what makes up the quintessential American experience. Much like the authors very specific writing style, many songwriters have identifiable qualities to their work. Mister "Red House Painter" himself, with his voice as smooth as silk and his songwriting like a midwest lullaby drenched in Americana fits the bill. Kyle and Alan find out what makes Sun Kil Moon one of the best bands of all time. so SHUT UP! and listen up!

All these feelings! What are Alan and Kyle to do with all the things they feel? When your teenage romance ends and the world is falling apart around you what is one to do? Run to the arms of their father, or father analogue (Mike Kinsella). Maybe not the Founding Father of emo, but the Abe Lincoln for sure. He's not a household name, but his music has shaped the sound and defined the content since the ancient times of the 1990's. Let's talk about American Football.

NIN? Ever since Kyle and Alan saw Brie Larson wearing that shirt in Captain Marvel they have been hard at working finding out what the hell a "Nine Inch Nails" is. Turns out the famous film composer Trent Reznor, has a side project, and while it never really took off in the main stream in any meaningful way, Kyle and Alan were able to track down an actient piece of industrial-rock history and listen to it. Get out your acid wash jeans and put your terminator shades on and let's talk about NIN. We're Back!

what's this? a perfect album? Could it be? find out, in the weeks episode. We talk about Control by Pedro The Lion. We also start what will be our laundry list of complaints against the Christian Church. It's super fun and not at all divisive.

James Taylor's son went in a different direction with the music they created. We talk about it. It's season 2 and we are off to a sleepy start. Kyle's a dad. Alan's perpetually... Alan. Why do the 90's nu metal? I don't know. It was a a time where the biggest rock band wore masks and only referred to each other as numbers, and none of it was ironic. Like, not even a little bit. I cant even remember the last time I didn't hide my venerability and art under a mass of irony the size of Jaba The Hut. Anyways. let's talk Slipknot.

see ya later 2018. This is our finale episode of the year and we finish not with an album review, but a review of our favorite things of 2018. It's gonna be hard to do since we are surely descending deeper into the inferno of our hellish reality. Let's forget all that and talk about movies and shit instead. K. Bye.

OMG! when was the 80's? Why was Cusack the guy sad boys wanted to be? and why did we think women would want a sad boy? It's a trope that has continued up to this day. One of our favorite movies is Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and the hero of that movie basically acts like the villain of any other film, but for what ever reason Max Bemis named his band after the movie that told a bunch of nerds they should be mean to girls and trash them in songs so that they can fuck more in the future. We review Say Anything's Self titled album this week and even though we love this band and this album and emo music, we feel it's worth pointing out that most of these guys are jerks and there lyrics are just selfish and sad. WE FUCKING LOVE THIS ALBUM THOUGH!!!!!!

We've got another confession to make! Oh how Ever I Long to Learn To Fly. The Shape of your face and The Color of your hair are the Best parts Of You. We're not The Pretender, you're the real deal. It's time to see the family and give thanks. Kyle and Alan are here to celebrate and give thanks for all that is the Foo Fighters album, The Color and The Shape.

Finales are hard. The last episode of scrubs brought us to tears, Friends finale said goodbye to the people we had loved once a week for ten years and Cheers last episode was a send-off as bitter as a tall frosty beer drink. 2003 was the year Blink-182 released their finale Album, Self-Titled... Just like those shows they didn't stay gone, but Kyle and Alan consider this the finale season to the Blink-182 series. Find out why. Also find out a bunch of other stuff about out hero's on this weeks episode of, BEST! ALBUM! EVER!

America is a white nationalist hell-scape, beer-loving-asshole-bros are IN and protecting trans people is OUT. It's time to talk about an album that is the opposite. An album who's creators address being queer women, falling in love, growing up, struggles with identity and failed relationships all set to the best fucking pop music heard in the last 20 years. Tegan and Sara give a master class in honesty, bravery, creativity and song writing on their album, "The Con". Kyle and Alan dig in and figure out what makes a music scene great and Alan argues that "The Con" should be taught in music college.

It's time to talk about something very serious. The singer of Atreyu says, "they invented metalcore". We all know he is just pulling from the Donald-Trump-grab-bag of attention getting buzz phrases to stir-up attention, but we still need to address this issue. The inventors of metalcore are a handful of bands from the late 90's, but the band and album that defined and brought into the mainstream this style of music is undoubtably Converge with the album "Jane Doe". Kyle and Alan sit down together and talk for a long time about how converge sounds like a wild animal attack that you hope to be the predator in. Head-walks, guitar tone, mastery in the style of MEEEEN sound. This band has razor sharp teeth which works out as a great contrast to us because we mostly gum our way through everything we do in our suburban 30 year old lives.

Do you remember Jesus? Underoath does. And so do Alan and Kyle. And much like Underoath used to believe and proselytize the good word, so did your two favorite 30-something year-old podcasters. This week we talk about the time we stole Wendys chicken nuggets from the singer of The Chariot when we were on the Underoath tour bus back in 2004. OMG! maybe our super religious upbringing is why we are such anxious and uptight grown-ups. Hopefully our work in the Church of Satan will help us lighten up. Lets find out in this episode of BEST! ALBUM! EVER! (read this in the "epic movie guy voice").

Our first episode! Warts and all. What can we say? We awkwardly talk about Jimmy Eat World's Album "Clarity", We want to be able to tell you it's our meta take on being middle school kids at a "home coming dance", too scared to ask anyone to hit the dance floor with us and are standing in the corner talking about how Jimmy Eat World, just gets our hearts in a way our parents don’t , but we don't want to lie to you. We are grown men who have known each other for 20 years figuring out that we are super anxious and uptight and are willing to put that on audio for the world to hear. So sit back and enjoy our episode about one of our favorite albums in the world.