Welcome to a very special episode of the Bandhive Podcast. This is episode 100.

It is time for their episode of the Bandhive podcast. My name is James Cross and I'm here with Matt Hoos of Alive in Barcelona for the 100th time. How's it going today, Man? I am doing 100 times better than I should be James. We are celebrating a pretty awesome milestone today. So I'm excited. How about you? How's everything on the east side? I'm stoked. I'm now wishing that I had like streamers and balloons set up in the studio behind me just for the video.

So When we put out our social media clips, that would be celebrations. But you know, it's 20, maybe I can edit those in on the walls and stuff. Just everybody imagine confetti and balloons for this podcast. Yeah. And then everybody grew up the music, everybody dance. Come on now, backstreets got it. Yeah, Yeah. That song might be too old for half our audience. Was that an influential song for you? James? That mean a lot to you growing up? Uh I was definitely one of the first albums I listened to, I think I listened to Millennium before I listened to the self titled Backstreet Boys album.

Uh And it's crazy to think about that album. I think it was 1996, that's 25 years old. Now, ironically some of my favorite albums like Weezer's blue album are older than that, but I got into them after my little kid Pop phase. I totally understand. That was one of the albums that got me into music when I was a little kid, I totally get it ironically at burger king when I was a little kid, they teamed up with like, Pepsi smash or something like that to put VHS of live performances inside of happy meals.

And so I got a Backstreet Boys, Pepsi smash VHS tape of them, like playing, it was like five of their songs or something like that. So that was also integral for me. But I too listened to a whole bunch of nineties albums and whatnot before I discovered my favorite artist of all time, The Red hot chili peppers. So I had a whole lot of, I was like 16 when I found the peppers. And so it was like, stadium Arcadium was about to be released. So I literally had like five albums, six albums worth of stuff to go back through and be like, what is going on?

And I fell in love with them because they were just awesome. So being able to be like, what other crazy like parts of these guys written and then I spent like, way too long diving through that. So it's a great feeling and music is so, so cool. And I mean that's obviously anyone who makes music, anyone who's listening to this because they want to be in the music business, you feel it, That's the family of music. And so normally this is the point where I would say, Okay, let's stop side tracking and get on topic.

But because this is episode 100, we're going to do something special and it's gonna be fun for us. It might be fun for you. Maybe not, but we hope you enjoy it because today we are going to go through our top five favorite albums. It was really difficult to pick a top five, I think I narrowed it down, but there's still some spots where I'm questioning myself. So we also have an honorable mentions list that will do like a rapid fire around at the end of the episode or maybe should we do the honorable mentions first build the anticipation.

Yeah, let's do that. Let's Quentin Tarantino. This quick change of plans. We're going to start with the honorable mentions to build up to our top favorites. I promise. It'll be more interesting when we get to our top five each will really go into detail about what we love about those albums. But with the honorable mentions were just going to keep it like super quick. So matt, if you want to take it away. Yeah, absolutely. I have way too many albums that have like drastically changed my life over the years, but I know I've mentioned it once on this podcast.

The first one on my honorable mentions is what it is to burn by Finch. A stellar record. Yeah, I remember when you mentioned that on the episode, I don't know like 97 98 a few weeks ago I went back and listened to it because I knew a finch but I never listen to it. I was like that's a really good album. So I agree with you. There definitely doesn't make it on my top records list just because I don't know it that well. But it is amazing album. First one for me is actually an E. P. And that's the sole reason it didn't make my top five list just because it's an ep.

But I love it. It is I Fight Dragons Welcome to the breakdown which is actually a B sides ep that they released before their debut full length produced by john Pines who has worked with artists like Wilco and a bunch of other artists based out of Chicago and I'm sure he works with people elsewhere. But that record is just one that came at a key turning point in my life right before I went to college. And then like I got to meet john Pines at an audio conference in college and here the multi track.

So that's just like that E. P. Has a spot in my heart. It was like oh that that's such a good ep that I already liked and now I like it even more. I totally understand man. It's the albums that tug on your heart. This was a hard list to make for me. I grew up on blink 1 82. And so I couldn't actually even pick just one record, pretty much all the blink 1 82 records or a huge combination of what I fell in love with music as a child.

But take off your pants and jacket. I think that is the one that I just put into my cd player which I put in my pocket and I just wrote in my bike around the cul de sac for like our on our just listening to the album over and over and over again. I unquestionably no every lyric to every song on that album, even though I haven't listened to it in years. So blink 1 82 was the first band I ever saw in concert. So every one of their albums kind of has a little bit of Sacredness in my life.

Well, you know that lines up quite nicely because this next album that I'm mentioning actually was produced in part by jerry Finn. He did like three of the songs on it I think. And jerry Finn did take off your pants and jacket additionally, Butch Vig and joe McGrath also worked on this album. Those are three names you're going to hear over and over on my list because I nerd out about who produced albums and who worked on them and that kind of stuff. And this band was also my first big show.

I've been to plenty of shows before, local shows, regional shows, that kind of stuff. But this was my first rock show at a club. Of course it's AFI. And the album was saying the sorrow, I know people are probably tearing their hair out being like, why is that not on your top five? And I have a very good reason for it that will get back to later. And this was one of those tossups was like, should this one be on my top five or not?

But dude, perfect segue right there, jerry. Finn first concert it all lined up. Honestly, that's AFI really uh, was a huge staple in my email phase as well. I don't know how anybody could have ever listened to in my music and not been a fan of a F. I a perfect band that walks hand in hand with them is they used the used has multiple albums that are phenomenal but in love and death, the taste of ink buried myself alive. There's so many good emotional tracks.

And Bert Mccracken is one of like in my opinion, music's best singers when it comes to just pouring tons of emotion. They used to actually, whenever a song didn't have enough emotion in the studio, the band mates would get together and they would throw stuff at birth until he just would get so frustrated and filled with adrenaline that he'd go in and do a good take, but they would literally throw stuff at him. So pretty fun stories about those guys there, but definitely a uh, an emo phase flagship band for sure.

They used in Love and Death, what a phenomenal record. Oh, absolutely. And I'm just gonna switch up the order here on my list as well because I also have the used on my honorable mentions list, but it's their self titled, their debut album. Songs like maybe Memories and a box full of sharp objects. I feel like that album is just that much more raw and brutal. I'm super lucky that five years ago when they did the 15-year anniversary tour, I got to see that show and they played the whole thing in full and I loved it.

And then the next night they played the second album, which I can't remember if that's the one you mentioned or if that's the third one that you were mentioning. But either way, I didn't go to the second, I just went to the first ones like, oh, that's, that's amazing. But I've had enough. Right? There's so many good ones there. Speaking of raw and brutal though, I have a few raw and brutal artists on here. I definitely think the most raw and the most brutal is probably going to be as I lay dying.

They put out good album after good album after good album after terrible story after good album but awakened was an album that has so much production quality that it will literally make your ears melt. And anybody that hasn't listened to that record, both in terms of the songwriting and in terms of the production quality you're missing out, definitely listen to awakened by as I lay dying. Yeah, that's one of those legendary bands, I can't say I've listened to them too much, but respect to them for their music, not so much for their stuff outside music, but for their music for sure.

And now I don't mean to steal your thunder here, but I know this is the one that's on both of our lists and I think it's a good follow up to as I lay dying, which is Architects Lost, Forever Lost Together, Which was the, I believe second to last album they did with tom right? I think they had one more after that with Tom Yes, that's correct. That album just from front to back, that was literally like the soundtrack of my 2014. When you listen to that album, it's literally like Grave digger comes on and you listen to this thing, you're like, dude, this has got to be the best metal song ever written and then like it ends and the Naysayers starts and you're just like, oh my gosh, this has got to be the best metal song ever written. Yeah.

And anybody who says that's not an amazing album is a nice hair. Oh, that's awful, I love it, I was going to say it and then you mentioned it, I was like, oh now it sounds like I'm just going to rip that off. But I was planning on saying it before you brought it up. It worked well. It worked well. Speaking of heavy music, we'll segue into what I'm listening to right now, especially in the last, I would say 10 years, one of my favorite artist has become the plot in You.

Landon tours is a phenomenal writer and specifically there was an album that they had to deal with, a whole bunch of legal stuff and label stuff as happiness in self destruction. They were on Rise Records, I believe. And uh Rise wouldn't let them release this album because it was like a totally different sound for the band. It wasn't really what Rise was going for. So they had to deal with a whole bunch of fights and they eventually were able to release it on franz from Attila's record label, Stay Sick.

And this album came out. It took them years, they had it written and it took him years to actually be able to release it. But the album, it's one of those albums where you listen to the lyrics and you don't even know what he's talking about a lot of the time because he's speaking about such personal stories and it's like so cool to see that much transparency from an artist, Landon does most of their writing and does a lot of like their production as well. So if you actually just like sit in and listen Happiness and self destruction is a phenomenal record, They actually just put out a new one called Swan Song, which I have only had the pleasure of listening to the first half of Because I'm not trying to ingest too much at once.

If you listen to any plot in, you listen to like their last 10 years worth of music, that's a discography you will not regret. I will definitely have to check them out because that's one band I can say, I have not listened to, I know you've mentioned Landon tours before, so I know of him, but I can't say I've listened to the music, he's a name that people will be talking about in 30 years. He does not give up, he does music full time, he has multiple projects. He's a Maynard keenan.

He doesn't have a downtime. He always is writing music. I don't know franz personally, but from what I've seen in interviews and just from people who do know him personally, like, you know, the second degree connections or whatever it is, franz doesn't work with people who don't take themselves seriously. So that says a lot for Landon to get the plot and you assign to stay sick, That's huge. So this is probably the last one that's heavy on my list and it's not even that heavy, It's pierced the veils collide with the Sky, everybody talks about the snare on Paramours album Riot.

Well dan corn of who did Riot also did collide with the Sky. I just learned that today myself and I'm like, oh no wonder I like it and no wonder it sounds so amazing because it's dan corn f and that's just a stellar record. One of those albums that honestly, musically those guys are so talented. I'm not a great guitarist, but I can play guitar and there's a couple bands where I'm just like, I don't even attempt half their songs because it's so complex and a F. I is obviously one, and then pierce the veil is another one.

Like, I can learn some of their songs like Bulls in the Bronx, that is such a fun rift to play and it's an easy rift to play. But then there's other songs, but I just have like, the whole song is just tapping out a lead and I was like, no, I can't do that. No way. Like I'll leave that to them. That's how I feel about some of the older rubio songs listen to rubio and you're just like, what are you even doing? How do you, how are you even able to but your fingers move that fast or like watching an old as I lay dying uh documentary and they're like, I remember when this song was hard to play and you look at it and you're just like my fingers don't even bend that way.

I'd have to, like break a bone just to make that possible. Yeah, exactly. Let's see, I've got another heavy one. I think the heavy, I've already talked about the heaviest one on my list, but well, since you're out of heavy ones, I'll use my last heavy ish one and that is the first full length and really one of the records that put Joey Sturgis on the scene with roots above and branches below by the devil wears Prada. This was a record that cover to cover is just phenomenal.

If you listen to it, if you like heavy music, the production on it. So, ra this was one of the bands that was doing things kind of before their time. One of the few metal bands that use producers that they should have at the time when they used them. They used Joey Sturgis is one of the first people. And lo and behold, Joey Sturgis became super popular. They were one of the first bands to stop using Joey Sturgis once that became an industry standard and dead throne was also a great record, but roots above and branches below is earth shattering.

I feel like pretty much anything the devil wears Prada puts out is one of those albums that goes down in the scene is like, this is a defining moment in our scene. Absolutely. And it's always good to, if you watch them live, if you listen to the record, it's just like everything feels appropriate. I feel like they're a band that does not reach for stuff that is not them. Like 100% of Devil wears Prada songs sound like the devil wears Prada. They were like oh we need to put on an album but we don't have stuff written.

That's all like canonical. Let's just put out a zombie ep. And they just put out the second zombie ep because they wanted to and they literally said they're like oh yeah we put out a zombie ep because we wanted to write songs about zombies. It's like that's so cool and that's so like human. I guess for me I grew up in a time when there was a lot of concept albums and everything had like this intense backstory. So it's nice to have like artists be like we wanted to write songs about zombies because we think zombies are cool.

It was like all right, I respect that a lot. Especially when the songs are really really good. You know? That's funny. I did not have this one on my list but you just inspired me to add it by talking about zombies. It's M. C. Lars zombie dinosaur. LP. A lot of people listening probably don't know EMC Lars he's a nerd core rapper which basically means he's really smart like book smart and he raps about literatures like in the past. He's done the Edgar Allan Poe ep and stuff like that but the zombie dinosaur LP really fun.

He worked with a bunch of different artists including less than jake, who is going to be on this list a little later. But he also, this is kind of heavy. He had stanza from leftover crack on one of the songs and so it's like happy bouncy nerd corps, hip hop and then just like, this is a brutal screams and I was like, yes, this is what it's all about. And EMC Large is just a super cool dude. He let me on Warped tour 2015. We were both out there and he has this call and response in one of his songs.

So one day I was just like, hey, you know sometimes I have a megaphone, you know, after his set was like, sometimes I have a megaphone, it's cool if I come over with a megaphone and like use that for the call and response and get people going. He's like, oh yeah, that would be awesome. And so then he ended up getting the entire crowd to follow him to another stage and back. So just on the megaphone, I'm like, and Lawrence is headed over to the stage, he's taking the lead and narrating it like a race.

And then as they run back, I keep narrating it, that was a really fun moment, was in Salt Lake City. So if anyone was at Salt Lake City work tour in 2015 and was at EMC largest set. You heard me on the megaphone, that was me, That's awesome. I love in things pop out of your brain like just like oh yeah, I can't believe I, I forgot about this. That's how half of this list was. It was like, oh man, I can't believe I forgot this record, Enemy of the world by four years. Strong.

Oh my gosh, that was another cover to cover. This was massachusetts metal core dude. And they had so much bad press coming out because the record before they put out, they didn't have enough money to record all the songs with the same producers. Like the production quality changed, then set your goals came out and set your goals. Put out some awesome music. Then the press was like, oh it must really suck to before your strong right now which is the title of the first song on enemy of the world.

So go listen to that record. If you don't get wasting time stuck in your head then there's something broken with your inner music complex and you need to just go adjust your life because this is pop punk core to like the maximum, this is the happy hardcore that you always wish you had in your life. This record slaps. Oh yeah, Happy Core is so fun. It's easy core is a thing, they call it but I like happy core better. That's a good term for it. So now I'm going to totally shift directions and throwing out here matt.

This is one that I know you also hold dear to your heart. It's the bravery and the album is the Sun and the Moon. Specifically the Dual Cd edition that had the Moon included as like remixes. Both versions were called the Sun and the Moon, but the 2nd 1, the Rerelease had a remix album on it and the producer was Brendan O'brien who worked with pretty much everybody who is anybody in the nineties, including Stone Temple pilots, Pearl Jam and matt. You're going to like this one. Red hot chili peppers.

The best speaking of the Red Hot chili peppers, they get an honorable mention as well since I can't pick any one of their albums. I picked all of their albums and I actually can't pick one of their albums. I pick stadium Arcadium because it's 26 songs mars and jupiter, it's phenomenal. It's 26 face melting songs. This album tells a story. It's like listening to an orchestral arrangement, it thumps, it makes you wanna cry at times, it bounces, it rocks. It is morose and sad. It's, there's all the emotions packed into one record plus it's played by musicians that have forgotten more about music than you and I will ever know.

So it's, in my opinion, one of the greatest, yeah. And you know, steady market um was produced by rick Rubin. Yes, it was who is one of the most legendary producers of all time. Probably the most legendary producer of all time. Right now. I would say the I don't think there's there is a name more prestigious than rick Rubin when it comes to production. Yeah, I would say maybe, Butch Vig maybe, but butch Vig has a very defined sound, whereas rick Rubin can do any genre and make it sound amazing.

Rick Rubin is the king of rock, right? Exactly. But he also does rap, he does hip hop, he does like little bit of everything. Studio musicians, jam musicians. Yeah, exactly. And speaking of rick Rubin, this next one is a double mention, it's the same artist, it's Weezer, their blue album produced by Ric Ocasek or Ocasek, sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong legendary album, that album spans generations. I remember when the album turned 20 in 2014, I was talking to one of my professors about it and she is like a total music nerd, just like we are, We were both like, Oh my God, the blue album is 20, this is crazy.

Like we feel so old and she's like 15 years older than I am, and this album came out a year after I was born and I was like, I'm sold, this album is 20 and like, well, okay, I'm 21 so I guess that makes me old and then they're red album was like so influential in 2000 and eight or so on me, That was Rick Rubin. He produced some of the tracks Weezer self produced, like three or four of the songs. And Jackknife lee, you'll hear that name later and probably not so great of a light.

But Jackknife lee who did like huge names like you too. And I think he did you too because he's irish, I would assume he does you too. I don't know. So there were three producers on the red album and that's a stellar album. You can definitely hear that. The sound changes a little bit. But yeah, blue and red Weezer. So good. Excellent. I love the double mention. That segways perfectly into my double mention. This is kind of a double mention, but it's also kind of something fresh.

Mayday Parade and go radio. So two separate bands. However, they share Jason lancaster and in my opinion, Jason lancaster is the magic behind these bands because that guy knows how to write in such a poetic manner that even I get weak in the knees when I hear his, his lyrics go radios do overs and second chances ep This ep is the ep that features Goodnight Moon on it. If you've heard that song go listen to the ep, the Holy P is just so well written that in the right emotional state, it will bring tears to your eyes just the same as the Mayday Parade albums anywhere, but here and a lesson in Romantics, those albums.

It was hard to pick which one of the two I liked better. Um, but they are both just absolutely phenomenal. It's just this rob unfiltered, you can tell that these kids had poured all of their best lines into these songs and then they put them out. It's incredible stuff. Mayday Parade Go Radio. Those are very, very honorable mentions for me. I've saw go radio on Warped tour in like 2010 2011. Sometime around then I had no idea that it was the same guy from May Day Parade. That is totally new to me, flew over my head but good stuff man and I just moved some stuff around on my list because we're talking about work tour bands undeniably Mayday Parade and go radio are the work tour scene.

So I pulled up motion city soundtrack. This is another double mention. It fits well go there 2012 record which a lot of people didn't really like but I did. That was like my gateway to Motion City soundtrack. Go got me into them in 2012 is produced by Ed Ackerson who unfortunately is no longer with us. Amazing guy. And while we're talking about people who have passed on jerry Finn who did sing the sorrow is also no longer with us. He passed away in 2000 and eight. But yeah go is an amazing album and then I can't mention Motion City soundtrack without saying how amazing commit this to memory is which was produced by Mark Hoppus and you mentioned blink one of you to earlier matt.

So that just goes to show how interrelated the music world is like Spanning genres, everybody knows everyone in their seen, even if you just think about blink 182 there, this childish punk band two of their members started boxcar racer as a side project and then they broke up and then Mark Hoppus went and did indie music with like electronic stuff. Travis barker went and did hip hop remixes and drum beats working over wrap stuff and Tom Nolan went on to start angels and airwaves. So much more experimental progressive type rock music.

So when they broke up, even kind of all went in separate directions. Musically even it's crazy because like you're saying, you know these guys played in a punk band of like childish potty humor and then they lo and behold they go on to also be revolutionary in some of these other industries. Mark producing, tom mix like documentaries and stuff like that. He's done a bunch of like work with like Nasa and things like that about pursuing alien life. It's pretty crazy. We always talk about how in order to be successful in music business, you have to be networking.

They were partners with atticus, like bob Hurley literally gave Hurley international clothing to blink 1 82 times along started Macbeth choose these are multiple industries that they're constantly in. So it's just like pretty cool to see that even decades later, they're still going strong. My first concert was liquidated two. And taking back sunday opened for them. And they get an honorable mention with louder Now, a phenomenal record. It was probably one of the most influential records I've ever listened to louder now. There's another one of those cover to cover records.

It's Just to die for. Yeah, I love that album. It's not on my list because it's on your list, but otherwise it totally would be. It's such a good album. Oh man. Now I have to add two more and I'm going to make them quick. One is matt Skiba in the Secrets Babylon, amazing album produced by Cameron Webb. He's in blink 1 82 now. So that's what made me think of it. But it had Hunter from A F. I. On base, Jared alexander on drums who played with a static lullaby and a bunch of other bands.

He's now the drummer from Mike M I believe, or at least he was when they did their reunion, they had Zoli to Glass or Tea Glass doing backing vocals, which he was the guy who took over for uh gym in Pennywise when jim stepped away for a few years, amazing album. And then the next one taking back sunday louder. Now they're guitarists there fred mastery, no terrible things was his side project back in 2010 or so. And their self titled album. Absolutely. One of my favorites. I love terrible things and that whole album, Front to back is one that I can listen to all day and he's an amazing guitarist.

Like he's been doing facebook live stuff and just it's amazing what he can do. Story of the Year. Page Avenue, that is one of the most influential albums in my life. There are multiple songs on that record that punch you right in the heart. Plus if you've ever seen Story of the Year Live, you've watched one of their guitarists run up a wall and do it back then they were showman and they wrote phenomenal music. The mosh pits were fun. The concerts were intense, the music was great.

That is an album. Everybody should pick up and listen to in the dark room quietly and just like feel the emotion that is being bled through the beautiful music. That is Page Avenue, I'm so happy that you said listen in a dark room for two reasons. One because my whole life is a dark room. One big dark room. If anyone isn't familiar with the art of drowning by AFI. They ripped that line out of Beetlejuice and put it in one of the songs, the despair factor.

But it also works perfectly because the next album on my list is by less than jake and it's called See the Light. I have to put a happy bouncy Sky album on this list and see the light. Similarly to go by Motion City. See the Light was my gateway into less than Jake. I'd seen them on work toward a couple times already and then they dropped see the Light and she's like, oh, this is amazing. And now they're one of my favorite bands, one album that is not very happy but definitely has the illusion of that is all's well, that ends well by good old Kyoto's.

I know I've mentioned Craig Owens before on the show and so of course all's well that ends well, gets an honorable mention because that song, Almeria's Beware has like one of the most face melting guitar solos you've ever heard. And that song to this day makes me move to my core and then obviously everybody knows and remembers if they're an email fan, the guitar riff from the word Best Friend becomes Redefined. That is a clutch guitar riff that is integral to the lives of email kids everywhere.

Oh yes. That it is. I've only got two left. I don't know how many you have. I think that's what I have. Okay, perfect. We didn't plan this out. We just made a list of our honorable mentions. My second to last Is Stellar corpses, dead stars driving amazing album. I love it. And uh, it was produced by Joe McGrath. It's amazing that Joe McGrath a lot of times was just an engineer. But on this one he produced and he also produced um against me I think was shape shift with me.

There are 2007 album, he produced that one. There were other ones even after that where he had other producers and he was just the engineer. But still the man does amazing work dead stars, driving his hands down one of my favorites. And you know, I wanted to toss some a little bit of psycho, billy horror punk stuff in there. I love it. Mine is not going to sound anything close to that. I went the opposite direction. You went psycho, Billy I went like pop funk songs about jane by maroon Five.

I had to mention this one because Adam Levine as an early artist and especially maroon five when they were like a collective, not literally just writing digital music constantly when they wrote music as a band. I think their original band name was called Sarah's Flowers and it was just this kind of like sexual filled music, but it was so funky and so good. I mean as musicians, those dudes are insanely talented and the songs about jane really showcased their capacity and in my opinion, is the most complete record of their entire discography.

So if you have not, you know, if you've already written off maroon five and haven't listened to songs about jane, I would invite you to go back and listen to that record in particular. They've also got some pretty good b sides that like have never really seen the light of day, but very impressive funk rock band from their early days. Yeah. And to top off my honorable mentions list, I'm just going to drop it one more light by Lincoln Park. Say what you will. I love old Lincoln Park, but this new album And I didn't get into it until 2019 when it first dropped, I was like, Okay.

But then in 2019 I just started listening to and I was like, man, this is one of the best albums they've ever put out. And I honestly believe that it might be the best album Lincoln Park ever put out hybrid theory. What I didn't say that it's an amazing album. But same with media or a did, it's really hard, Lincoln Park is one of those bands. It's hard to like, they definitely have generational fans. And so it's like, because they have generational fans, there's people like me who are like no hybrid theory and like media are literally some of the best records.

Every like crawling in the dark was like, those songs were so integral to like music everywhere. And it's like they kind of re commercialized hard rock to a degree and then they kept it going and they put out some good stuff. You know, they had songs and rock band, I don't have any Lincoln Park honorable mentions, My final honorable mention is actually a smaller band that ironically has has gone on to start a podcast and their podcast has actually propelled their music career for a long time.

And that is emery The question, this is my runner up album. This, this is one that I contemplated putting in my top five because this was a concept album. This is the last dwindling moments of a lot of money in the music industry. And so they did this album called the Question. And the question was, where were you when I was? And every single song track is the second part of that question, Where were you when I was so called? I could see my own breath. Where were you when I was in a win win situation.

Where were you when I was in between 4th and 2nd Street. It has kind of has a cool overlay, something that's a little bit more dynamic and kind of ties to the real world a little bit. But also the album is just these guys are phenomenal musicians. They have two guys in the band who would sing when they lost their basis instead of finding a new basis, they would just trade off singing and playing bass because they could go with the flow. Studying politics is probably the song that I passively go to to sing more than any other song in history.

And that is like Probably why it's my runner up honorable mention is because I have probably saying studying politics north of 1000 times. It's amazing how smaller artists can affect us in such a way. And you've made me realize that pretty much every band on the list that I've read is huge except terrible things. They're more of a side project but going totally to the opposite end of the spectrum. This is another one where people are going to be like, why that one, Why not one of the other ones.

But it's Green Day's 21st century breakdown. And I will tell you right now, the reason why not american idiot as much as I love that, why not ducky legendary album, 21st century breakdown because it has some of the best production I've ever heard. I told you you're going to hear this name again. Butch Vig, He was the producer chris Lord Alge E was the mix engineer who's C. L. A. And his brother T L. A. Tom. Lord Alge E. They have mixed pretty much anyone who has made music in the last 20 years and assigned to a major label, joe McGrath.

There he is. Again, I just found out today that he was the engineer on that album or rather additional engineering. But everything joe McGrath touches his gold. Same with Butch Vig and chris Lord Alge E. Ted Jensen mastering who he's a legendary mastering engineer go to uh that album. Just I connected with it so deeply when that came out in May of 2000 and nine. This is right around when I was getting more and more into rock music the year before I discovered a if I had known them already, but that's when I fell in love with AFI So just some of the songs on that album, like christian's Inferno east, jesus, nowhere, viva la Gloria, Amazing songs and the way that album flows is just like no other and it's, it's a rock opera.

It's 18 songs. Like it's huge. And I honestly think that would have been a better musical than American idiot. I know they dropped in Some of the songs from 21st Century breakdown to the American Idiot musical, But 21st century breakdown is already a story and I think it would have been a better show if they went with 21st century breakdown. But I mean they were already planning the musical by the time 21st century breakdown came out. So what can you do it? They didn't know that was going to be the hit that it was.

That's a great mention. Green Day is very integral to who I was as a kid too. And I would have chosen Dukie for sure. I love that album, Don't get me wrong. Right. Of course. I mean, that sounds listening to like dude ranch, take off your pants and jacket, fat lip by sum, 41 half hour of power, just all sorts of kind of like fun, punky or music, ironically some of the same stuff I was listening to you around that time. This is This is my number five, All american rejects.

Move along. We've talked about this record and most of my Top five influential. I'll add this little preface is that they are to me like the Sequels of the bands, it's really about the bands to see like I listen to all american rejects and I heard swing swing and I listened to the whole record and hearing some of the songs on that. I was like, I really like this band and then move along came out and that was like the empire strikes back. Okay. And you're just like, oh my gosh, this is face melting.

This record is all about facing hard struggles, this came into my life at a time when it's like, I'm becoming a teenager, you know, I'm like 15, 16 years old or whatever and you know, you're you're a teenager and you're like, oh, I'm dating my first girlfriend and life is so hard for us and you know, your kid and you think that you've reached the end of the world already and this album just like perfectly encompasses all sorts of emotions. You know, you have dirty little secret, you have stabbed my back stab my back.

A direct song about being betrayed. You have move along the song about being betrayed and growing from that you have top of the world where it's a song about him just talking about him being happy And the next song is a song called straitjacket feeling where he talks about feeling like he's in a straitjacket he's encumbered, he can't move. And from cover to cover you are kind of unveiling these like he dances back and forth between these like darker emotions and darker places to visit and then happier places to visit.

And it's almost like writing that line of like depression and struggle in your life. And I think that this album did such a perfect job of kind of encompassing all of the sporadic emotions that partner those feelings. Yeah, definitely. And I just want to point out Howard Benson produced that album. Oh I didn't even know that. Yeah, he is legendary. I have his guitar tone pack, that's how I knew it. But I'm just looking at his discography and some of the names that jump out Mayday parade of mice and men.

All that remains apocalyptic to P. O. D. He did. Youth of the Nation Theory of a dead man skillet, red jumpsuit apparatus, kelly Clarkson. That's kind of an odd one. Out. Hawthorne Heights escaped the fate, yep, escaped the fate, reliant K. C. Either less than jake and probably to top off this list. My chemical romance kelly Clarkson is bigger than my cam. But of all the artists in the rock world, I would say my kim is like the big one. And you know, I'm surprised that neither of us mentioned my cam unless it's coming up for you later, it's not on my list, I guess.

We'll see. Yeah, building up that suspense. This next one is actually a band from Australia that I got into back in uh 2010. I saw them playing with Sick puppies. Why is Sick puppies not on my list? Another great band. Anyway, this band, I like them more than sick puppies now, but I still, I love sick puppies, This is violent Soho, and the album is Waco, which is their fourth album, but it's just it's amazing. There's not a lot of information online about this record. I know the producer is bryce Morehead, he doesn't even have like a website, so I couldn't see what else he's worked on, but it's an amazing album and for a grunge band, because that's what violent soho is.

They have some incredibly intricate lead work and I just love how the album starts. It's got this like, chae me, probably like a telecaster, clean lead on the guitar, really cool, and they play through the lead a few times and then they just yeah, you hear Dodo Dodo Dodo, it's like, okay, that's more like what I expected from violent soho, that whole album, Vice Roy like soda Waco, which is, you know the title of the album as well, that whole album just has some great songs and it's so fun to play because it's all in drop D. There's like three chords and then a drop D. Or sometimes you'll get a little faster and like have a little run up the fretboard and drop the stuff like that.

But it's just it's such an amazing album and I love it. To drop a little hint here. Gil Norton produced Violent Soho 2nd album, which is the first one that you'll find available online. The first album kind of has been erased from everything about Youtube. But the second album, their self titled was produced by Gil Norton. He also produced the next one on my list. I'll let you guys think about what that might be. All right. I am going to bring it back to my very first concert ever.

I already mentioned one of their albums honorably. And that album was louder. Now this is taking back Sunday's Tell All Your Friends for me. I actually think I heard louder now first and so fitting right with the this is the sequel type theme. When I found this record and heard songs like cute without the E. Or greatest romances of the 20th century or Timberwolves at New Jersey. My personal taking back sunday favorite song ever. When I heard these songs, I was like holy cow, listen to the way this guy writes his poetess is um is literally even in the names of his songs in cute without the E. This album is so clever.

It's just ridiculous. This guy could literally stand there and cut you deeper than you've ever been cut before, all the meanwhile he's like the life of the party, he has a certain suave about him, a wonderful word used to describe. It is machismo. I would I would say that Adam Lazzara has had a lot of machismo when I was growing up. Everybody wanted to have hair. Like Adam Lazzara, they wanted to be able to swing the mic. Like Adam Lazzara, they wanted to be able to sing like Adam Lazzara and I'll tell you what that guy put out some of the best lines ever.

Like I've got the mic and you've got the mosh pit. What will it take to make you admit that you were wrong. It's like then there's the whole the whole beef between taking back sunday and Brand new, which is a another man that should have gotten an honorable mention mikes are for swinging. Yeah, that's right for singing. Not for singing to misquote the shirt. Yeah, but their integration. If anybody doesn't know, listen to 70 times seven by brand new, they actually have, it's not that they sample the other songs but they actually use some of the lyrics from the other songs and it's their little online argument over the music industry and it's absolutely great, adds a ton to the production quality and the story, the history of the music in general.

So if you have not listened to tell all your friends then you need to tell all your friends that you need to listen to taking back sunday. Yeah. You know like I said earlier with louder now it was on your list. So I didn't throw in mind, but that's an amazing album for me louder now tops Tell all your friends, but they're both stellar, stellar work. That would have been a perfect segue to stellar corpses. But I mean, hey, whatever next up for me is anthems by the band Pure Love.

And I would say probably that this is my favorite band of all time, which is really heartbreaking for me because they only ever released the one album and then they had a three track ep and it's frank carter who used to be in the band gallows, so hardcore punk band. And then the first single for Pure Love was about how he was so sick of singing about hate. And then after Pure Love broke up the next year he started frank carter and the Rattlesnakes and he literally dropped a song called I Hate You and it's like, dude, wait a flip flop, I mean, come on and I love frank carter and the rattlesnakes, especially like their 2nd and 3rd albums.

The first one was a little raw for me, 2nd and 3rd hit the spot and now they're doing kind of like grunge pop or something and it's like, yeah, this is cool, but like this isn't like the arena rock of Pure Love that hit me right in the heart. And what's cool also is that Jim Carroll, who was in the hope conspiracy back in the day is originally from boston. I found this out when I met them on their farewell tour. He also was the co conspirator in Pure Love and then their band was a who's who of musicians in the punk world, both in the UK and the US. So on the recording they had, I'm probably gonna butcher this but Jared Shavelson from the Hope conspiracy doing drums and Gil Norton produced it, amazing production and I'll get back to that in a second.

And then when they played live, they had James leach from legendary british metal act, Sick on tour with them men, B. J. Go from Ghost of 1000 amazing drummer and then thomas Michener did guitar and keys on their tour. Membe and thomas Mentioner both carried over to frank carter and the rattlesnakes for the first couple of years they've now been replaced, but Tom Michener is also an amazing producer and he did the two most recent gallows albums after frank left the band. I can't believe I didn't even put great Britain on my honorable mentions, I probably should have, but I mean, well we had too many honorable mentions already.

We did. We did and I added like three on my list throughout the episode as we were going. I'm still thinking of ones that I forgot. Yeah. Say we'll have to do this at 200 No joke, go back through all the ones we missed. But just like for pure love at least half the songs on the album. I'm like, this is amazing. And I don't say all the songs, they're all good. But then there are some that are like the best songs I've ever heard and it's a totally different style from what frank has ever done before or after.

So starting with the album opener. She an amazing song. Great riff, Great beat Beach of Diamonds Again, like super fun guitar part to play the leads. This is one of those bands where Jim Carroll who he's a punk guitarist, but he plays leads that I cannot play. It's amazing. Handsome Devils Club, scared to death is a really fun one. That's where they get a little bit punky and that's like the one where they break out the mosh pit. Their live show is nothing I've ever seen before.

They crowd served the drummer with his drums, not the show I saw, but after that and they did have the drummer in the crowd at the show that I saw. The only time I ever got to see them because it was their farewell tour. I was in Germany and they did their farewell tour was like, I'm flying over to the UK because they've only played one show in the US ever. I was 20 and it was 21 plus where I would have been there. That's really cool is like 300 cap.

And it was legitimately the best show I've ever been to. Every single person knew the words. Everyone was screaming along to every song frank, literally. They started with she and he walked out on stage and did a front flip into the crowd as he started singing like that was just like, his intro was like front flip, like I'm in the crowd now and he started singing like this is going to be intense show. Yeah. And then riot song and then March of the pilgrims to close it out.

I'm gushing about this album. Probably more than I'll gush about my next to and I should specify that this top three is in no particular order but pure love anthems. It's on my wall right there. It took me like eight years to get a copy of it on vinyl. But I love that album. Gil Norton is amazing and Gil Norton being amazing. Set me up for a great disappointment on another album that was released in 2013, which does not make this list. But that band is next on the list.

Another teaser. Yeah. If you think about Gil Norton and the great disappointment, I'm putting you on another cliffhanger. Sorry to ramble so long. But matt, go ahead, Take it away with your next one. Uh that's a good one. This is my number three as well. Kind of similar to you. This this band had the capacity to be my favorite band ever. They only put out one album and that album was everything that I needed in more. This album walks you through pretty much every aspect of feeling lost.

It goes from feelings of anger to uh searching for comfort or searching for hope. And that is boxcar racer by Boxcar racer. I probably like Boxcar more than blink 1 82 more than plus 44. More than Angels and Airwaves, more than anything. Travis barker has ever done. Here's looking at you. M G K. Yeah, right. No, Yeah, easily better than honestly The Fever The Fever 333 of the stuff that Travis barker doesn't. That's phenomenal. So that's an honorable mention. But with this record here, this album really spoke to me, you know, it has these more positive, uplifting songs like Letters to God and there is and and I But then there's also like these really dark songs.

So it's like, I feel so mad, I feel so angry. I feel so lost. Very real, very human emotions. You have songs like elevator where they're talking about killing himself. This was a band that wasn't necessarily afraid to write songs. And this is ironically a song that features Mark Hoppus. So it's literally blink 1 82 with two other members and that song Is phenomenal. It this is the same way that blink 182 is able to write Adam's song. Boxcar is able to write elevator. It's songs that are like a little bit more sad.

I think. Tom Delong had a lot of really phenomenal songs throughout all the work that he's done. Stay together for the kids is a blank community to song. That literally is just watch the music video. The music video is good, but the lyrical content and the message that is coming across is just very powerful. And that's how really all of boxcar racer was for me with the exception of catlike thief. That's the only song that doesn't really speak to my soul that much. And even that is like an homage to an old punk god.

So it definitely still, In my opinion, nine out of 10 sounds on this record are pure gold. Tiny Voices was a song that was featured on an atticus dragging the lake sampler and I think that was the first song I ever heard from Boxcar and that turned into me being like, I could jam this forever. You know, I could, I could listen to letters to God just over and over and over and over again. Because in the end of that song, when everything comes in and just punches you right in the chest, it's just like, oh, that's music done, right?

Yeah, that's how I feel about this next album. Music done, right to give you another little hint, the album that was released in 2013 that I was kind of disappointed with. That Gil Norton produced was called burials. And it's a great album, Don't get me Wrong. But it didn't have the impact on me that I expected when I heard that my favorite band at the time was working with Gil Norton. Because you know both here loves album and violent Soho is self titled were produced by Gil Norton was like oh that's gonna sound like these this is going to be great.

And then I was like yeah it's okay. Like I like it. And I think if it were any other artist I would be like this is amazing. But because it's f I I was like they can do better. So for this album that I am including on the list, it's Crash Love which is a divisive album in the community. Everyone loves sing the sorrow. A lot of people like december Underground, Crash Love though, a lot of people really hate it because it was a very sharp turn from what the band did with december Underground.

It was a lot happier sounding. A lot popular. A lot cleaner production which I mean december Underground had amazing production. It was super clean. But it was heavy that was a heavy album. At least like half the songs on it had screaming and really heavy guitars like killed caustic on that album was one of the heaviest songs af has ever written heavier than their past stuff in the mid nineties when they were a hardcore punk band. But Crash Love has a special spot in my heart because that's the first time I saw AFI was on the tour for that album and I honestly do think it is their best album.

As much as I love everything they've done up through 2013. And to an extent 2017 2018. They had a great ep, their latest album, Bodies. I cannot bring myself to listen to it just because the production is so bad. The songs sound good but the production is legitimately terrible. So anyway, I'm not going to rag on a F. I'm going to talk about how amazing Crash Love is, Joe McGrath was the producer of the album for almost all the songs. And like I said, that's a name that comes back over and over again.

I loved his work with it. The band actually worked with Jack knife lee for three of the songs on the album, but it didn't work out. So they switched to joe McGrath and kept jack knives work on those three songs. But said now we're done, we're gonna go with somebody we know. And I honestly think joe did an amazing job sing the sorrow, stellar production. I love that album. But I honestly think that Crash Love, which to be fair, you know, was digital instead of tape. So they had, you know, more tricks up their sleeve.

I think joe McGrath did a better job on Crash Love than Butch Vig and joe together did on sing the sorrow and that's not to knock their work at all. Like I love seeing the sorrow and it's a legendary album but Crash Love has a fuller sound, it has more impact, it has more low end, it just blasts you in the face. And the reason that I picked it as the top album aside from loving songs like torch song, beautiful thieves, veronica Sawyer Smokes, I'm trying very hard to be here.

This was the last album where they dropped sing the sorrow b sides. It had the last ones from that cycle. So you have a combination of the two because you have joe McGrath and the amazing work he did on Crash Love and then there is the song 100 words which is produced by jerry Finn engineered by Joe McGrath and additional production from Butch Vig. So you literally have two of the greatest names in history producing, jerry Finn and Butch Vig and then another amazing producer in the form of joe McGrath engineering.

That's like the triple threat, that's the hat trick. Like you cannot beat that and that song sounded stellar. I'm saying stellar like every five seconds on this episode. Just because it's so amazing. That's right. Well that's what happens when we choose our favorites, these are the stars. They're literally stellar. Exactly. So yeah, Crash Love, I feel bad not putting this at number one, but like I said the top three or not in any particular order and I just love the production, I love the songs, you just can't make up your mind, that's all it is, You just couldn't pull the trigger and decide I could mind.

Number two is fitting in the same theme as Sequels. For those who have Heart was absolutely incredible album that turned me on to this band with songs like Monument and the plot to bomb the panhandle. This is a day to remember for those who have Heart was an incredible record for me that really set the pace for homesick, the sequel when Homesick came out. This was like your summer album, this was the album that made you just want to move your body, you put this thing on and the downfall of Us all comes on anybody that's ever listened to any hardcore band or you know post hardcore band or anything like that has heard this song and everybody just knows that this is a song that gets you pumped.

I've seen a day to remember countless times and every time they play the Downfall of us all like really close to the end because it is the jam and they know it these guys also have just some of the most brutal breakdowns ever. Mr Highwayman is thinking about the future, this is a band that you can just be like oh these courses are so emotional and so beautiful. These songs are bangers and then you just get to a breakdown and it's just like disrespect your surroundings and everybody just goes nuts and it's great.

And then you see them live and they are a metal band that actually has some money behind their production. So they've got confetti cans and pyrotechnics and balloons and beach balls, you know, and they make it a real fun experience. So, this was a record that I cover to cover was in love with and when I saw them play it live, it was just everything and more. Sometimes you got and you see an artist and you really aren't sure if they're going to be able to stand and deliver.

I've seen a day to remember probably like six or seven times and every time they've just been great. Just playing great. Yeah. If you haven't heard Homesick by a day to remember, it's my number two most influential album probably of all time. If you haven't heard it, I'm sure you've heard the downfall of us all or if it means a lot to you. Those are staples of the record. This is an album that you put it on and you are in for a 48. 5 minute wild ride. It's everything you needed more. Yeah.

And just to toss this out there. If anyone is on Tiktok, you've heard disrespect your surroundings as well. Of course, it's everywhere. Disrespect your surroundings And then you see like a dog tearing up a couch or something. Yeah, yeah. Such a good album. I agree. So great. It should have been on my honorable mentions, but it's not, Oh well, My number one, which is one of my top three. And this is a band that I just got into really last year, I've known of them for over a decade, but last year was when I got into them right around when the pandemic hit.

I think this album came out in April of 2020. It's surprisingly lyrically thematically fit with the pandemic because there's a song called The Dreamers Hotel on it and if anybody knows this band now, you know, But it's talking about how in the Dreamers Hotel all the rooms are empty and I'm just like, they dropped this like three weeks after the pandemic hit and they're talking about empty hotels, wow. Like that's not what they were writing about, but it fits so well. The band is entered Shakeri. The album is nothing is true and everything is possible.

What I really love about this album is, it's so different from anything I've ever heard before. Like I've heard Enter Chicago's past stuff. I like it, but this album doesn't sound like anything Enter Shakeri has done before, let alone anything that any other artist I've ever heard has done. It's just so unique and it stands out, it has an amazing energy. The writing and the flow are incredible and the songs are just man. And then you throw in another band that I mentioned earlier, 6th dan Weller, the guitarist of the band Sick did the engineering on this album, Dan Lancaster who did mixing for Bring Me the Horizon one, OK, rock, blink 1 82 Don broke.

Oh and a bunch more did some of the mixing. There are actually three mix engineers on the album, so I don't know who did how much, but that was all amazing. And then you add the fact that it won best production at the heavy awards, either this month or last month, I guess last month, by the time this episode comes out and top that with the fact that this was the first album that Row Reynolds who is the singer of Enter Shakeri ever produced in his life and he won best production on it.

That to me is like, wow, he is a musical genius. Now, I know he's been making music for like 20 years and he's co produced, but this was the first time he's ever been like, no, I am the producer and I think this is their best album. They beat out Bring Me The Horizon for best production. So that shows how good he was at producing this album for literally the first album where he was, you know, the Captain of the Ship, that's got to be the top of the list, just for me because it's such an inspirational story that he literally wins this award and did such an incredible job.

And it was his first time as having full creative control alongside his band of course, but amazing work and apologize if it's not row, if it's rude or something like, I don't know, british names, stellar job for the album and everyone who worked on it, Stella Stella job, brits. Yeah, yeah, So enter Shakeri, I love that album. It's so good. Now they can get rid of the song, sorry you're not a winner because they want, but don't get rid of it cause that's an amazing song. They should always keep that song in their live sets.

Alright, well down to my number one, my most influential album of all time is Let It unfold. You buy senses fail. I had a bunch of Imo mentions on here, but none as emo or as mention able as senses fail. My favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe. And so having a real life author that would write themes that were just as dark as Edgar. Allan Poe was really, really awesome to listen to with song titles like you're cute when you scream and bite to break skin and choke on this.

The irony of dying on your birthday. I knew that this was essentially an artist that I was like, oh, these are gonna be some darker themes, What are we going to really fall in love with and it was actually, you know, the first song that ever sat down and learned, like, lyric for lyric with my brother was buried a lie and I learned was like, oh, this song is about a guy digging up his dead girlfriend's body so that he can find the poison in her stomach so that he can track down her killer.

And it's like, what a dark story, you know? And and growing up, I always really liked authors like Edgar Allan Poe or ambrose Bierce or it's just like you kind of have like this one story is going on on the surface and then something else entirely more psychologically compelling is happening in the background. This album had a whole bunch of that for me, there's literally not a song on this album where I I don't enjoy it. They have some of the darkest lyrics I've ever read. Some of them aren't even poetic, but it's just the fact that he was willing to put that in a song like in your cute when you scream the bridge is literally him saying, I'll take you to the roof of this building and just push you off, run down the stairs so I can see your face as you hit the street.

Like there was nothing poetic or beautiful about that at all. It's very dark, it's very angry, but it's a very also human, like this pessimistic emotion of like what being psychotic can essentially due to you. And as you've noticed with all of my albums, potentially you've noticed that all of mine are very it's all about the emotion kind of like from where the writer is writing from. And so like when you have these songs where, like, in slow dance, you know, he has this beautiful line, it's very simple.

You know, it's like if you pull too hard then the string will break, but if you leave the slack then the string won't hold. And this album is littered with all sorts of fun little I want to say that he he took a lot of his lyrical content inspiration from like buddhism and things like that. I think that's actually where the phrase let it unfold you comes from. But this is somebody who was facing darkness, depression, fear, anxiety, hatred, all these crippling emotions and then trying to externalize it.

And basically turned it into poetry by ways of a creative medium. Even I think it's in the end of let it unfold you. He says like, duct tape my arms and legs, throw me into the sea, please save me, please save me. And he's literally using these like opposite language is essentially he's saying duct tape my arms and legs and throw me into the sea, that's him saying he's not going to be saved. And then his next line is Please Save Me Please Save Me. And so it's like a direct admission of this kind of psychological battle.

And then the following line is now watch the waves eat me setting my cold heart free. I'll wash ashore in weeks. You can't save me, you can't save me now. But it's you listen to it and it's just like so poetic and so beautiful and just elegant and and sang in such a manner that it's just like the melody is beautiful but it's addressing these very sinister tones. And for me, I like dark humor. I like stuff that has a lot of meaning in the depth the surface meeting has, you know, it's like people will see something at the surface and be like, oh well that's that and then they don't go beyond the surface.

And for me I get like really nerdy about diving into people's lyrics and this album out of every other album I've ever listened to. This album is one that specifically has so many like 1 to 1 correlations of emotion to action and it's awesome to see kind of what somebody who's had a public life of psychological trauma and seen how he's externalized that creatively. If you have not listened to let it unfold you buy senses fail. It comes with the highest possible recommendation. It is pretty dark going back and listening to it.

The production quality is not crazy awesome to listen to. But if you appreciate a dark story and a story that resolves then let it unfold you as a great record to listen to it legendary. I also love their more recent album. If there is light, it will find you for many of the main reasons you've said the lyrical content is just so good. But that wraps up our top five each and are honorable mentions, Thank you so much for listening. I hope you all enjoyed this special episode.

We'll be back with the regular music industry topics next week. But I do want to say we want to hear from you, what are your favorite songs and favorite albums. So if you find our facebook group by searching for Bandhive on facebook or just going to better dot band slash group that will automatically send you to our group. We'll have a discussion thread for this episode. We have one for every episode, but on the one for this episode, go ahead and drop a link to your favorite album.

And if you want us to check out a specific song on that album because that song means a lot to you, Go ahead and drop that link in there as well. I'm looking forward to hearing all the albums and songs and you know, let us know what you like about it too. So we can listen for those specific things that really hit you in the fields. I cannot wait to hear all the amazing music that inspires our community. So I'm looking forward to that. So again, you can find us on facebook by searching for Bandhive.

Make sure you find the group instead of the page or find them both if you like. But the thread will be in the group or you can go to better dot band slash group. Mm That does it for episode 100 of the Bandhive Podcast. I know this was very different from what we usually talk about on the podcast, but I really hope you enjoyed it and whether you do or not, I'm so glad that you are here and that you listen to this podcast and I am very happy that you are part of this community.

So like we said on the show, if you want to share music that has inspired you, We have a discussion thread in the Facebook group going on for exactly that purpose. Please feel free to head on over there by going to band. I've got rocks slash group or searching for Bandhive on Facebook, go ahead and find that thread and join the discussion. That's it for this week. Thank you again. I just cannot say that enough. I'm super stoked to be right here at 100 episodes. Looking back, I never thought that we would reach 100 with as few hiccups as we did.

We have not missed a single episode in the entire time. The podcast has been running even with the pandemic and all that stuff going on. So thank you matt, thank you too. Erin our former third co host, Thank you to all the amazing guests we've had on the show. This has been a wild ride. Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to next week already. We're gonna be dropping episode 101 at six AM on Tuesday. Until then, I hope you have a great week, stay safe and of course, as always, keep Rockin.