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The fabled question posited by Neil Young, “is it better to burn out than to fade away?”  looms large when considering Sabbath’s 12th studio album.  It makes a strong argument for the former.  The prior quality of Tony Iommi’s work and his indelible influence on every single piece of heavy music that came after affords him eternal appreciation and love regardless of the atrocities that came after.  In the words of Sunn O))) "Praise Iommi’” and never waiver.    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP32:  Black Sabbath - Complete Discography   https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/07/09/ep32-black-sabbath-complete-discography/   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=w

INXS had a TON of hits during their 80’s heyday and you’d instantly recognize all of them, The Swing’s “Original Sin” included.  The rest of the album is filled with deep cuts that only the diehards will recognize.  Results may vary but if you want to know what 1984 sounded like, you could do a lot worse than starting here.     RIP Shane McGowan  RIP Geordie Walker  RIP Scott Kempner  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   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.c

Part 2 of our Soulside series, this one focusing on their incredible third LP, which not only served as a sonic transition into the equally great Girls Against Boys but also unknowingly proved to be the inspiration for the HHPP outro music.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP67: Hall & Oates “The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/06/25/ep67-hall-oates-the-very-best-of-daryl-hall-john-oates/   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/

We love to eat we love to prey mold over mind hooray!   Recommended Listening:    Skatenigs “Chemical Imbalance” https://open.spotify.com/track/0OMvirjF7mCSoGnf4uIpol?si=366f045eaaf646d6   Waritme "Fast Food For Thought" https://www.discogs.com/master/141468-Wartime-Fast-Food-For-Thought   Lead into Gold  https://open.spotify.com/artist/31AGUo9XdSojGBaIRvLOPl?si=vLWpxY6dQHK_xdqh41Pvrg   Omertà 68 “Nemesis”  https://open.spotify.com/album/37P98vwxhcr4oi53retvMT?si=3KcTcpNpQQ2UjefUwYPsZQ   Artist  John Chamberlain  https://gagosian.com/artists/john-chamberlain/   Worm Lamprey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey   TV Show The Righteous Gemstones https://www.hbo.com/the-righteous-gemstones   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.s

DC’s criminally underrated Soulside becomes the first band in the history of the podcast to garner back to back episodes.  Pt 1 is dedicated to the bands sophomore effort, an LP that could have been discussed on our “15 Perfect Albums” episode.  In our estimation, it's a Post Hardcore classic.       RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP142:  Compilations  https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/12/06/ep142-compilations/   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  

Some of these bands suck.  Some of these bands are just fine and some of these bands are really good but not as good as their fandom would have you believe.  All of these bands are extremely successful.  We ask why?     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   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   huntsma

This one gone to eleven.    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Slomsa https://open.spotify.com/artist/0l7GXb53ndWn97ul8Hpfzd?si=dKRr65zSSLOKQNFilIdxiw   Noisey: NOLA Sludge  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HIIWP6T_gt-eTMDCJcly1dWORIH8aLX   Movie Hard Rock: The Dewey Cox Story  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy 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   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter.com/HuntsmanHill

What makes an album perfect?  No skippable songs?  A front to back cohesive listen?  An emotional through line?  The answer lies in the ear of the beholder.  We each make the argument for five that we think are perfect tens.   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP12:  Beastie Boys VINYL CAGE MATCH “Check Your Head” vs “Ill Communication” https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/02/12/ep12-beastie-boys-vinyl-cage-match-check-your-head-vs-ill-communication/   EP16:  Naked Raygun - Complete Discography  https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/03/12/ep16-naked-raygun-complete-discography/   EP60:  Bad Religion “Suffer” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/04/29/ep60-bad-religion-suffer/   EP62:  Agnostic Front “Victim in Pain” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/05/20/ep62-agnostic-front-victim

We're the Huntsman Hill Polanco Podcast and we suck.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP182:  Possessed “Seven Churches” https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/07/10/ep182-possessed-seven-churches/   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   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   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/hun

How many highly influential bands never became as popular as the those they influenced?  How many others were huge in their native country but were never able to achieve similar success in the US?  We identify 15 of them to give them they proper due.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Bezelbong https://open.spotify.com/artist/3MffQ9fJsgtOEqW8GvzJW8?si=ymL--vA6QKqbcJm6uPD_Cg   29.august  https://open.spotify.com/artist/56Sro0pANCmwCiJvsq7Zgy?si=UBuYMhSsQwqeyu6FQmm24g   The Unmarked  https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MQqKrBwXt3mjC11esF50x?si=-5AISiC5QFG6P0_G7ZJGcA   Bjork “Utopia”  https://open.spotify.com/album/037hz3oZyrgcJOheyhPMnC?si=bMozE3OMRHi0AOEDaT5ErQ   C.O.F.F.I.N https://open.spotify.com/artist/0YSaA3PB82JjyHSPq30lO3?si=tQJcTXD6Rbe9oRHexo_UZw

The prodigal son returns!  After a five episode absence Rod is back to spend an hour and twenty minutes to discuss the seven and a half minute debut by Jack Grisham, Ron Emory and the boys (preempted by twenty minutes of Mike’s recent music explorations and Rod’s epic trip to Tokyo).    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Jack Grisham & Keith Morris “Sweet Transvestite  https://open.spotify.com/album/0ym5qWJZxuO8YmzJnVeIv1?si=FeGZS5T8TWWlfTI_4AASjw   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandc

“Go shit I’m not a fish!”    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP78:  Voivod “Killing Technology” https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/09/30/ep78-voivod-killing-technology/   VoiVod “The Wake” https://open.spotify.com/album/097DmmcskEDBUEgFJaIbvG?si=F_CjkJDwS7Gm8odL8RTiBw   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   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/2LW7wWSHd9bi3n3Q

Ray said:  “Let’s talk about a double-live album that’s almost 40 years old, spans 18 tracks, is steeped in personal nostalgia and was recorded at shows that we both attended in 1985.”  So we did, for almost 2 hours.  Scream for me Long Beach!!!     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP112:  Iron Maiden “The Number of the Beast” https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/09/21/ep112-iron-maiden-the-number-of-the-beast/   Live After Death  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECqZcIO1fU   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRw Academy O.C:  htt

When does nostalgic appreciation for an album supersede your critical opinion of it?  Do you listen with your heart or your head?  Are they mutually exclusive?  Can you like something even if you think it’s bad?  Mötley Crüe’s second LP forces us to answer  these questions while diving headlong back into our past selves to understand how we felt about this goofiness once upon a time.       RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    EP93:  Mötley Crüe “Too Fast For Love” https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/03/10/ep93-motley-crue-too-fast-for-love/   EP213: Ratt "Out of the Cellar" https://huntsmanhill.com/2023/03/12/ep213-reevaluation-ratt-out-of-the-cellar-is-this-album-actually-greatt/ Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spoti

NARDCORE!!!      Maui Donation Fund https://www.mauicounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=12656   RIP Robbie Robertson RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    “American Girl”  https://open.spotify.com/track/6BUa2tl1GmudK75CCUbXxz?si=52f7c07e3b7c41f5   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   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=aVFU0HdnRzqI1UOTAf

After eight classic album with Ozzy Osbourne (ok, six plus “Technical Ecstasy” & “Never Say Die”) and two very strong releases with Ronnie James Dio, it was former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillian’s turn to take the mic for Black Sabbath’s eleventh studio album.  Apart from the bands name, that release has little in common with their previous efforts.  Mike and Dave discuss the good, bad and bizarre of those differences and why they should have probably named the band Black Purple for this release.      RIP Paul Ruebens  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:    Depeche Mode “New Life” https://www.etsy.com/listing/1135017018/depeche-mode-new-life-shout-12-single   “Zero the Hero” covers: Cannibal Corpse  https://open.spotify.com/track/278ppsGkLLPCexii6E5JEE?si=18

3/4 of the world is starving the rest are dead     RIP Sinéad O'Connor RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:   Mid City Three https://open.spotify.com/album/26usAX1sbshznZP5DwRPUK?si=FggXATv6Tg2HBzrIqL0ySQ   Sinéad O'Connor https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sD9znwiVFx9cgRPZ42aQ1?si=uLRyLS57TY2VnCpwW0dx8g   Econochrist  https://open.spotify.com/artist/1DLVhhPxteU9tIkcRAfPyO?si=nGfFXqIvSlitKpbD7ot4Nw   “The Great War” https://open.spotify.com/album/7wZPRxVu2rceDJ00EZm87a?si=my48cCulQTSq8AVTikaD-w   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   HHPP Amazon Affiliates Store https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/06/09/hhpp-store/   Our Music manhuntsman:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7tFBWn0UFkdOEMf67TRD6W?si=vzllkbDwSEmfZFlj02GLRwAcademy O.C:  https://academyoc.bandcamp.com/album/academy-o-c   Omertà 68:  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6dfiCa0qTlbPQUrqtIkStS?si=6SCjNtXbSO2xRBDuBKJelQ  

Buzzcocks first three proper studio albums, released from 1977-’81, are all very good but nothing released by the band (or really any other band) before or since can touch their 1979 singles compilation.  Whether or not you're a fan of Punk, Pop Punk, Power Pop or the fucking Beatles, Singles Going Steady is undeniable.  It’s a lesson in world class song writing with a driving pulse and hooks for days.  None of your favorite bands exist without it.      RIP Pete Shelley  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:   EP67:  The Very Best of Daryl Hall & John Oates https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/06/25/ep67-hall-oates-the-very-best-of-daryl-hall-john-oates/   EP142:  Compilations  https://huntsmanhill.com/2020/12/06/ep142-compilations/   EP145:  Band Compilations https://huntsmanhill.com/2021/01/11/ep145-band-compilations/   Jawbox “Airwaves Dream” https://open.spotify.com/track/6txJ4dXM6JSsFePWN1txCd?si=42a38f9297e443d5   Playlist “Friend Zone:  Bradman Chapley"  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1A

The San Jose, California Doom Metal practitioners have never shied away from their devotion to Black Sabbath (they have a song called “Giza Butler” for god’s sake), and while the Birmingham legends influence looms large over the the trios sound, unlike many of their peers, Sleep are wholly unique.  There is an atmosphere that Al Cicneros, Mike Pike and Chris Hakius are able to create that has always set them apart.  That originality is nowhere more evident than on the 63 minute title track that makes up the foundation of their third LP.   RIP Rick Froberg RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:   The Sciences  https://open.spotify.com/album/6X0ErPKlQAxQDhWKNprz7u?si=Om9FQVnGQEy3XkrL7LhxNw   High on Fire https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eiIIImNeUj3vpaocWqoOf?si=itPwxwq_S1-NwvENat7SuQ   OM https://open.spotify.com/artist/4hCgC4FnYZLBgQPUMLOoiI?si=eWPwPT3pR5K6e48YDLKzig   Movie Such Hawks Such Hounds  https://youtu.be/PkdmwKXNXAQ   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  http

The Stooges 1969 debut is ground zero for no less than three rock sub genres and birthed hundreds of bands in its wake.  It is to punk what Sabbath's eponymous first record is to metal.   Not only are both records endlessly listenable but each have long stood the test of time and also contain two of the greatest songs written by anyone, ever.  We finally return to Ann Arbor.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:   EP89:  The Stooges “Fun House”  https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/02/11/ep89-the-stooges-fun-house/   “1969” The Sisters of Mercy  https://open.spotify.com/track/5t3w2oRxvGqkzrz5m4fMMm?si=3f28817c8d8045a1 The Mission  https://open.spotify.com/track/2xcIMYz93vyjGbeeFGWQVm?si=9827b4517c1f401e   “Ann”  https://open.spotify.com/track/41SWd6HPYuk3FeioaY73Wg?si=d6978f0c70434a6b   Movie Gimmie Danger https://www.amazon.com/Gimme-Danger-Iggy-Pop/dp/B089Y5JRMX   Contact us at:  huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:  https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUzt