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What’s a good horror movie without a terrifying score? A simple Google search will show you that The Shining can be marketed as a romantic comedy with the right music. Our Halloween episode has Mike, Rod & Glenn talking through the songs that have scared them the most throughout their lives. Don’t listen in the dark.     Recommended Listening   EP181: Overkill “Feel The Fire” https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/07/03/ep181-overkill-feel-the-fire/   HHPP Playlist Tracks:  Slayer “Hell Awaits” https://open.spotify.com/track/3UKGPk85EhjqJSqePrSYeR?si=ab369aaa244a4d86 Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” https://open.spotify.com/track/1wyVyr8OhYsC9l0WgPPbh8?si=37df876e334943ca Black Sabbath “Black Sabb

This is the third episode we’ve dedicated to the Bauhaus frontman’s solo work but only the second album we’ve discussed (we inexplicably recorded two episodes about his sophomore LP “Love Hysteria”). Both are chock full of excellent songwriting and of course Murphy’s chill-inducing baritone but they are not without their flaws and some definitive signs of carbon dating. We discuss.   Recommended Listening   EP202: Peter Murphy “Love Hysteria" https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/12/25/ep202-peter-murphy-love-hysteria/   EP110: Peter Murphy “Love Hysteria" https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/08/25/ep110-peter-murphy-love-hysteria/   HHPP Playlist Track:  “Crystal Wrists” https://open.spotify.com/track/3

 With the LA punk institution NOFX recently calling it a career, we look back at their breakthrough 1994 release and discuss whether it’s a pop punk classic or a steaming pile of crap. Maybe it’s both.      Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track:  “Linoleum” https://open.spotify.com/track/4uB28m7RAflobYpnLMb6A2?si=15af5d7ef2324d3e   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Our Music manhuntsman: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-

Ozzy is back and not a second too soon. We wrap our Sabbath Series with their 2013 reunion LP.  The album saw the return of two thirds of the original quartet and while drummer Bill Ward is certainly missed, the magic that Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler had way back when things all began in 1970 is absolutely still very much in tact. The atmosphere, the riffs, the wonderful doom and gloom are all present. In short, Black Sabbath is Black Sabbath again.    Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track:  “Zeitgeist”  https://open.spotify.com/track/4HFRItYjNrcwT6Vbtbk2i4?si=433fe74bd7874a1e   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg  

J. Robbins legacy in the punk/indie rock world was cemented years ago. As the driving creative force behind Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels and Office of Future Plans as well as the producer of some of the best records of the early aughts including classics by Jets to Brazil, The Dismemberment Plans, Shiner and The Promise Ring, he has left an indelible mark on the guitar-driven rock of the past thirty+ years. His second solo outing leans more heavily into keyboards than he ever has before but the results are no less impactful. The record is eleven songs of exactly the musical quality and lyrical smarts that we have all come to expect from the man.      Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track: “Deception Island” https://o

The penultimate episode of our Black Sabbath series and the last before we get to return to the soothing voice of Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer Butler has again departed and as we have learned, that means a significant dip in quality. It does nothing to diminish the legacy of the Birmingham greats as their legacy was cemented decades prior to this albums release, but it is fair to say that our conversation about Forbidden is better than listening to the album itself.   Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track: “Kiss of Death” https://open.spotify.com/track/7qHlkA9ziadFC3p6C8dsY9?si=7111a1b8f6214f4d   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Con

Mike introduces the boys to one of his favorite records of 2022, a light listen through topics ranging from homelessness, drug addiction and serial killers. The album closes with suicidal thoughts prompted by a beloved McDonald’s mascot and the episode was appropriately recorded on Friday the 13th which happens to be the subject of track three “Pamela” which imagines what Mrs. Vorhees life might of been like prior to the death of her son Jason. Enjoy!   Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track: “Anywhere”  https://open.spotify.com/track/1outT7T0CQn6WyTJOPSrt4?si=908832e18a5245ec   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ

Glenn hosts our lively conversation about the Naples Florida punk band’s major label debut. The hooks are big and the messages are clear (maybe too clear) but how does this breakthrough LP hold up almost twenty years after its release? We discuss.    HHPP Playlist Track: “Up the Cuts”  https://open.spotify.com/track/3H1ehVh38MFVJ9hRV5l7u8?si=d2f49bf7e43f46be   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://op

The latest (and apparently last) studio album from the LA legends is a worthy addition to their catalog. It’s filled with everything we’ve come to love from the band since their debut almost forty years ago. John and Exene’s autobiographical lyrics, Billy Zoom’s unmistakable tempo drenched Gretsch and DJ’s Bonebrake’s splashy hi-hat all shine across ten bangers that speed by at a brisk 29 minutes. We've dedicated more episodes to X than to any other band (six including the to great Knitter’s first LP) and this won’t be the last.     Recommended Listening   X on the HHPP:   EP3: "Wild Gift” https://huntsmanhill.com/2016/11/23/64/   EP86: “Los Angeles” https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/01/22/ep86-x-los-angeles/   EP121: “Alphabetland”

We love Fugazi. “Yeah, it’s totally cool.”    Recommended Listening:    EP59: Fugazi “Repeater”  https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/04/19/ep59-fugazi-repeater/   HHPP Playlist Tracks:  “Suggestion” https://open.spotify.com/track/6eD7yC9Z7pLlmF3D0cdBdE?si=9c046854cbfc4cce “Glue Man”  https://open.spotify.com/track/2WVG1KwQDfGbdItg55ScQL?si=7ee6edf7daf64a0d   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.sp

This episode takes us back to the late eighties to discuss our favorite albums from the years that we each graduated from high school. It’s a fun conversation about the records that have held up all these later and how our musical tastes have evolved over the subsequent years. It’s also a stark reminder of how old we are. Happy graduation!   Recommended Listening:    EP1: Jane’s Addiction  https://huntsmanhill.com/2016/11/16/blog-post-title/   EP13: The Smiths “The Queen is Dead”  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/02/20/ep13-the-smiths-the-queen-is-dead/   EP16: Naked Raygun - Complete Discography  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/03/12/ep16-naked-raygun-complete-discography/   EP17: Public Enemy “It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold

Our old pal Patrick joins us to discuss how well the SoCal band’s debut holds up 42 years after its release.    Recommended Listening:    EP60: Bad Religion “Suffer” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/04/29/ep60-bad-religion-suffer/   HHPP Playlist Track: “In the Night”  https://open.spotify.com/track/2xFJ6xaHnRMdqVZCJGTLK8?si=443882f5de0a4008   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artis

Dave Lutes returns for part three of the Cure’s original "Dark Trilogy.” A great conversation about how Pornography (so to speak) introduced Dave to his wife and may have been a precursor to both the Industrial and Shoegaze subgenres of Alternative Rock.      Recommended Listening:    HHPP EP189: “Seventeen Seconds” https://open.spotify.com/episode/04GUTWqC9yeWC0D0F4GHaL?si=0ef249d57616499d HHPP EP223: “Faith” https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WKDl0XWuN63RXQGgaoKgt?si=107454438e714b64   Movie “Trilogy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbpM2pXx4d0   HHPP Playlist Track: "The Figurehead” https://open.spotify.com/track/5A9GVNVIUh0gCakvycu2BM?si=d85c48f315274b91   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/

Glenn returns from Columbia for Take two for our One Hit Wonders lost episode. It's a highly entertaining conversation about some bands that are long forgotten and their songs that never will be.    RIP Mr. Polanco    HHPP Spotify Tracks:   Fastball “The Way,”  https://open.spotify.com/track/7IsEXPk6qqt30FfQv4SZMa?si=55365de3ebca4f21 Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream”  https://open.spotify.com/track/1uiktZkzFSVDhp7i73faz2?si=3c178274ba104d0e The Vapors “Turning Japanese" https://open.spotify.com/track/1MANhf0nwr6gFwsRJMeDbr?si=f77e18a4ba0c4bf1   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jm1I3dIxp16wsC

Just as soon as Ronnie James Dio returned to Black Sabbath for the Dehumanizer record, he just as quickly departed again to make room (also again) for the return of Tony Martin. Given the spottiness (to be generous) of previous Martin led Sabbath albums we were skeptical and not necessarily excited about diving into Cross Purposes however, our concerns were quickly alleviated. From Track One / Side One, "I Witness” on, the might and heaviness of Black Sabbath is back and there is now a seemingly newly discovered restraint in Martin’s vocal performance. Most of it all, Cross Purposes sounds like a capital “S" Sabbath album. While the constant across every album is Tony Iommi, the constant across all the great to good Sabbath albums is Geezer Butler. The Geez is the special Sabbath sauce!     

While Seattle had Nirvana and Olympia had Sleater-Kinney, Issaquah Washington had it’s own great 90’s power trio in Modest Mouse, a band of weirdos who had a kick-ass rhythm section with chops for days and a singer/songwriter in guitarist Issac Brock, that had the perfect lisp-ridden voice to convey his stories of suburban America's dark decay with equal measure anger, frustration and disappointment. Their 1997 sophomore LP is arguably their creative peak, each song sounding more vital and urgent than the next. They would go to build a discography of great releases but nothing ever quite reached the consistent heights of The Lonesome Crowded West.      Recommended Listening   Movie Pitchfork Classic: Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West https://youtu.be/G33AcZzZ0pM?si=oEt0P0pbSMJy4-7t   HHPP Spotify Track:  “Cowboy Dan” https://open.spotify.com/track/5A0iajc7nhlZv9tGDHqZya?si=acfac00ecdaa4f8a   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220

As a follow up to episode 264 when we discussed “Unknown Pleasures,” Rod hosts a conversation about Joy Division’s sophomore and final release. One of very few bands to release back to back classics and to have a perfect .1000 batting average. As amazing as their first record is, one could argue that “Closer” is even better. We do.   HHPP Spotify Track:  “A Means To An End” https://open.spotify.com/track/3sAsM39lExnrDY9R3NCNh2?si=71f6129c055041ef   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/1Jm1I3dIxp16wsCfk9B5PH?si=zhLlbMfxSeWkbE4h-OkzdQ Omertà 68:   https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkSt

We finally got to Athens!  Recommended Listening   HHPP Spotify Track:   “Radio Free Europe” https://open.spotify.com/track/46dGFTD918NMz1IP1rPJXO?si=8608658638b040cb   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ Mid City Three:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q5N8i35?si=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAfc-ig

Ronnie James Dio returns and Sabbath is Black again!     Recommended Listening:    San Frannsicso Motorcycle Club  https://www.sf-mc.org/   HHPP Playlist Track: Buried Alive  https://open.spotify.com/track/5wpU8C6ImThofG0J7C9cXU?si=e793163f449f4d57   HHPP Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ MidCityThree:  https://open.spotify.com/a

Steve Albini was one of a kind. As a songwriter and musician in his bands Big Black, Rapeman and Shellac he made aggressive, uncompromising music with biting songs about the darkest side of the human experience. As an audio engineer he recorded pivotal albums for the likes of Nirvana, Pixies and PJ Harvey and worked with thousands of others covering every genre conceivable and changing the sound of modern music forever. He was a small business owner, a poker champion, a husband, a brother and a son. He was opinionated, sarcastic, hilarious and in recent years, self reflective. He died suddenly and unexpectedly at the far too young age of 61, while at work, doing a job that he often compared to a plumbers, a blue collar gig that required dedication, commitment and a tireless work ethic. It just so happened that Steve Albini’s daily grind changed all of our lives. RIP Mr. Albini, you will be missed.    Recommended Listening   Shellac “To All Trains” https://open.spotify.com/album/09SFqMvmXLpfG62LjeSorU?si=CXxw