On The Wreck Chord is an unofficial fan podcast about the Fat Wreck Chords catalog and punk music in general. Join hosts Alex and Ben as they go album-by-album, side-by-side, in (mostly) chronological order through the Fat catalog, holding in-depth discussions about the major releases and their context within the world of punk music. Fat Wreck Chords is the seminal and iconic skate punk label founded by Fat Mike of NOFX and has been the home to Lagwagon, No Use For A Name, Strung Out, Against Me! and many, many more.
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We are back for season 3, and first up is Hi-Standard's "Angry Fist". We talk about our records as fighters on the break.
Happy International Asteroid Day! We have fanmail for once. Ben commits Harry Caray in shame.
Happy Flag Day!!! We beta test a new Table Top RPG called Basements and Boneheads. Think D&D mixed with something like Mother or Undertale. There's a detour to talk about John Cena's view on “mistakes”. We talk about our favorite records from 2022 and share it with you halfway through 2023.
Albums Discussed: Me First & The Gimme Gimme's - Have A Ball; Movies Watched: SLC Punk; https://fatwreck.com/products/have-a-ball; Season Finale! We're joined by our friend Justin to talk about Me First and the Gimme Gimmes “Have a Ball”! It's great he's here because Alex and Ben don't really like this record. When will we see a Punk Goes Drill comp? We speculate on Joey Cape's whistling prowess. We make light of John Denver's death. We discuss the Mama Mia Cinematic Universe as well as the Tucciverse. Speaking of cinema we watched SLC Punk and discuss its merits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VrKro8djw
Albums Discussed: Screw 32 - Under the Influence of Bad People; AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes; The Nerve Agents - The Nerve Agents; https://fatwreck.com/products/under-the-influence-of-bad-people; Ponderosa Pondo-Combo We Want Value! A value packed episode where we talk about three records we all love. We play a new game called “Who's on Fat?”. We also play a game called “Famous Bad People”. http://geocities.com/stubblemusiczine/screw32.html; https://revhq.com/blogs/speak-up/eric-ozenne-unit-pride-redemption-87-the-nerve-agents; https://infiniteconversation.com/; https://www.pinterest.com/pin/christmas-cheetah-playing-bass-stone-coaster--515099276139413624/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmjz9uFFW6k
Albums Discussed: Bracket - E Is For Everything; The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good; Superchunk - Here's Where The Strings Come In; https://fatwreck.com/products/e-is-for-everything-on-fat; A real change of pace. We get sidetracked admiring the Caroline Records roster. We're all just guests in someone else's talk show. B is for Bondage Volume 1. We chuckle way too much. We research Frankie Muniz beefs. Listen to Dumptruck - “For The Country”.
Albums Discussed: Screeching Weasel - Bark Like a Dog; Descendents - Everything Sucks; The Queers - Don't Back Down; https://fatwreck.com/products/bark-like-a-dog; Ben Weasel, he's an asshole. Ben Weasel, he's a jerk. That's it.
Albums Discussed: Swinging Utters - A Juvenile Product of the Working Class; Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash; US Bombs - Garibaldi Guard!; https://fatwreck.com/products/a-juvenile-product-of-the-working-class; Were the Utters originally supposed to be a New Jack Swing band? Ben screws up a Dirty Work joke. More Dropkick Murphys hate. “Spicy McHaggis can eat a meat pie!” We also didn't do our homework so Alex has a new edition of Maximum Obscurity. Most of this record is about alcohol.
Albums Discussed: Snuff - Snuff Said; Snuff - Flibbiddydibbiddydob; Dillinger Four - This Shit Is Genius; https://fatwreck.com/products/snuff-said; https://fatwreck.com/collections/snuff/products/flibbidydibbidydob; First episode this season that is under an hour. Snuff-o-palooza! What's your favorite jingle? Online these records are only on Youtube so we pretty openly admit to never buying them. Get off our backs we dropped plenty of money on Fat Wreck releases when we were young. https://www.discogs.com/label/33238-Workers-Playtime
Albums Discussed: Goober Patrol - Vacation; Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition; Less Than Jake - Losing Streak; https://fatwreck.com/products/vacation; No mercy: this is a dumb band name. But this album is shockingly good. https://rateyourmusic.com/label/thems_good_records/
Albums discussed: Good Riddance - A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion; Redemption 87 - Redemption 87; Ensign - The Direction of Things to Come; https://fatwreck.com/products/a-comprehensive-guide-to-moderne-rebellion; Rebellious cats! Personal politics! We talk about our own acts of Moderne Rebellion. Pushead Top 100 trivia. I think it's neat!
Albums discussed: Strung Out - Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues; Deadguy - Fixation on a Coworker; Pulley - Esteem Driven Engine; https://fatwreck.com/products/suburban-teenage-wasteland-blues-reissue; Another all time classic Fat Wreck Chords release. Would you rather hear Bob Dylan cover Spazz, or Spazz cover Bob Dylan? We're not happy about the remixed and remastered version of the album. Would this album be better if they were a ska band?
Records discussed: Propagandhi - Less Talk More Rock; Anti-Flag - Die For Your Government; Inquisition - Revolution I Think It's Called Inspiration; https://fatwreck.com/products/less-talk-more-rock; Ben's audio sounds kinda shitty on this one. Sorry. We get real intellectual and talk about the Manufacturing of Consent. We love this record.
Albums discussed: Hi-Standard - Growing Up; Husking Bee - Grip; Millencolin - For Monkeys; No Fat page for this album exists. Sort of seems to be out of print. A positive and fun record. Lots of fighting spirit! Love is like ice cream. Musical Geography Bee. Also a surprising amount of Pinocchio talk. RIP Akira Tsuneoka! https://www.toysfactory.co.jp/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%27s_Factory; https://www.pizzaofdeath.com/news/
Albums discussed: Snuff - Demmamussabebonk; Wizo - Uuaarrgh!; Leatherface - Mush; https://fatwreck.com/collections/snuff/products/demmamussabebonk; https://fatwreck.com/collections/wizo/products/uuaarrgh; We're back! Season 2 kicks off with an international flavor. It's not a very good flavor since all the bands are from England and Germany. https://www.punkrock.de/
New Year's in July!!! Lots of records are talked about, both new and old. None of them from Fat. We talk about songs that have the same title and Maximum Obscurity makes a comeback. Alex and Ben share hot takes about celebrities and death. Josh tells us why we're wrong. He also admits to drunkenly harassing Brett Gurewitz. Let's hope Trevor Keith doesn't hear this. Sophistry vs Solipsism, potato potato. Ben Cornette makes his debut with a tennis racket to Face to Face. ; (Fear on SNL mini-doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AumYnYlG9fg; (Fear on SNL) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frud5RFtTi0
Albums Discussed: Lagwagon - Hoss; Gameface - Three To Get Ready; The Muffs - Blonder and Blonder; Season Finale! We're joined by our friend Justin to talk about Hoss! We gush a lot! This one is way too long, we'll try harder next season. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a psyop. https://www.seattleweekly.com/music/its-been-six-years-since-lagwagon-one-of-the-90s-biggest-punk/; https://fatwreck.com/products/hoss
Albums Discussed: NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live; We mix things up a bit this time and talk about silly things. Toys! Punishment (for all my sins)! Ben provides some hot takes about live entertainment. Josh is back again! A quiz! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/napalm-deaths-new-scum-demon-action-figure-up-for-pre-order/; https://www.reddit.com/r/nofx/comments/15yosg/nofx_cdvinylcassette_song_variations/; https://fatwreck.com/products/i-heard-they-suck-live
Albums Discussed: Tilt - Til it Kills; Green Day - Insomniac; Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves; Discount - Ataxia's Alright Tonight; This is one of the episodes we're most proud of. Josh comes back! Meth is the Godzilla of Amphetamines. Hulk Hogan to Metallica? Apologies for the length, but not the girth.; https://lollipopmagazine.com/1998/09/tilt-collect-em-all-interview/; https://fatwreck.com/products/x27-til-it-kills
Albums Discussed: No Use For A Name - Leche Con Carne; Lifetime - Hello, Bastards; Avail - Dixie; https://fatwreck.com/products/leche-con-carne; This episode is probably not kosher.
Albums Discussed: Good Riddance - For God and Country; Ignite - Call on My Brothers; Civ - Set Your Goals; A.F.I. - Answer That and Stay Fashionable; Lots of house keeping and we're gonna go weekly from here on out.; https://fatwreck.com/products/for-god-and-country
Albums Discussed: Face to Face - Don't Turn Away; Samiam - Billy; Screeching Weasel - My Brain Hurts; Also Ben quizzes Alex on reissued albums.; https://fatwreck.com/products/dont-turn-away
Albums Discussed: NOFX - The Longest Line; 88 Fingers Louie - Go Away!; 88 Fingers Louie - Wanted; Guns N Wankers - For Dancing and Listening; Sick of it All - Scratch the Surface; https://fatwreck.com/products/the-longest-line; https://fatwreck.com/collections/88-fingers-louie/products/go-away; https://fatwreck.com/collections/88-fingers-louie/products/wanted; https://fatwreck.com/collections/guns-n-wankers/products/for-dancing-and-listening; Another EP episode! Lots of records to discuss. We have a guest too! And we introduce a new segment called “Before They Got Fat”.
Albums discussed: Strung Out - Another Day in Paradise; Unbroken - Life. Love. Regret.; Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction; https://fatwreck.com/products/another-day-in-paradise-reissue ; In addition to being in awe at how much better the remixed and remastered Another Day in Paradise sounds, Alex makes Ben listen to him read Maximum Rock N Roll reviews.
Albums discussed: Lagwagon - Trashed; RKL - Riches to Rags; Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy; https://fatwreck.com/products/trashed-reissue; Plus we play a game named after a Fat band!
Records discussed: No Use for a Name - The Daily Grind; Rancid - Radio Radio Radio; Grey Area - Fanbelt Algebra; Doughboys - Whatever; Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops; The Distillers - The Distillers; https://fatwreck.com/collections/vinyl/products/the-daily-grind; https://fatwreck.com/collections/vinyl/products/radio-radio-radio; It's an EP episode so we change the formula a bit.
Albums discussed: Propagandhi - How To Clean Everything; Born Against - Battle Hymns for the Race War; Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Don't Know How To Party; Sepultura - Chaos A.D.; https://fatwreck.com/collections/best-sellers/products/how-to-clean-everything-20th-anniversary-edition; https://exclaim.ca/music/article/propagandhi-nazi_baiting_hardcore_raging Joined by our friend Josh Fekete. We all agree this is one of our favorites.
Albums discussed: Lagwagon - Duh; Farside - Rochambeau; NOFX - White Trash…; https://fatwreck.com/collections/vinyl/products/duh