The Best Good Band Podcast
Music Podcasts
Welcome to The Best Good Band Podcast: the definitive exploration into what makes a band good, and what good band is the best! Each season we're digging into a band's discography, album by album, to try and finally answer the age-old question, "what makes a band GOOD?" (Formerly known as and sometimes still, The Nimrods Podcast) For weekly bonus podcasts head over to: https://www.patreon.com/bestgoodbandpod
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United States
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Welcome to The Best Good Band Podcast: the definitive exploration into what makes a band good, and what good band is the best! Each season we're digging into a band's discography, album by album, to try and finally answer the age-old question, "what makes a band GOOD?" (Formerly known as and sometimes still, The Nimrods Podcast) For weekly bonus podcasts head over to: https://www.patreon.com/bestgoodbandpod
Language:
English
Episodes
Episode 98: The Nimrods Podcast FOAM REDUX!!
2/18/2023
We're celebrating the third anniversary of Green Day's most recent record by revisiting FATHER OF ALL MOTHERFUCKERS for the first time in years! Have our feelings changed?? Has our world been rocked?? Find out!
Duration:01:11:40
Episode 97: The Nimrods Podcast - NIMROD 25th Anniversary!
2/10/2023
Heyyyooooooooo!! We're dipping back into our alter ego, The Nimrods Podcast, to talk some Green Day and cover the band's extremely cool 25th anniversary edition of 'Nimrod.'
Duration:01:07:26
Episode 72: The Misfits 'Devil's Rain' // MISFITS WRAP-UP!
1/13/2023
We've got a mega episode for you this week! We're finishing up the Misfits by attempting to talk about about their bizarre final album DEVIL'S RAIN--but mostly getting tired of it and moving on to MISFITS WRAP-UP! We're talkin' favorite songs from every era, ranking the records, and finally adding the Misfits to The Best Good Band List.
Dive in!!
Duration:01:31:08
Episode 71: The Misfits 'Famous Monsters'
1/6/2023
This week we're talking about the second and final album of the "Misfits" bizarre '90s era! We're listening to 'Famous Monsters' for the very first time and it's a trip. Grab Scarecrow Man and Pumpkin Head and let's dive in!
Duration:01:06:49
The Misfits: 'American Psycho'
12/30/2022
Welp, we've finally arrived. The moment decades in the making... We're listening to Graves Era Misfits! This week we're talking about the first album from the second incarnation of The Misfits, AMERICAN PSYCHO. Is it as bad as we expected? Is it worse? Are there gems? Was there any point in this endeavor?? Find out!
Duration:01:02:56
Episode 69: The Misfits - The Rest of The Danzig Era!
12/23/2022
This week we're talking about all the non-LP tracks from the Danzig era of The Misfits! There's a ton of gems on the collection and compilation records and we're digging into all of them because we're sad to leave the Danzig years. Next week we continue our Misfits journey by stepping off into the great unknown: the Graves Era...
Duration:01:06:17
Episode 68: The Misfits 'Earth A.D.'
12/15/2022
We're talking about the final Misfits album of the Danzig era! EARTH A.D. is a wild one that veers into hardcore territory and has some extra psycho lyrics. We're getting into all the guts and glory!
Also we finally put Rage Against The Machine on the list cuz we forgot to do that...
Duration:01:01:22
Episode 67: The Misfits 'Walk Among Us'
11/23/2022
This week we're talking about The Misfits proper debut full-length, WALK AMONG US. We had a blast revisiting this absolute classic and diving into the lunacy/genius of it. Mommy... can I go out and... POD TONIGHT???
Duration:01:09:15
Episode 66: The Misfits 'Static Age'
11/16/2022
We're back! And we're starting a new band... This week we're kicking off The Misfits' long and convoluted discography with STATIC AGE. This album was recorded in 1978, released in 1997, and rocks... to this day??
Duration:01:22:09
Episode 65: Rage Against The Machine WRAP-UP
10/19/2022
We're finishing up our run on Rage Against The Machine by talking about what we learned, ranking the records and our favorite songs--and then inexplicably forgetting to put them on the Best Good Band List... Oops. Maybe we'll do that next week. Stick around til the end of the episode to find out what band we're talking about next too!
Duration:00:54:57
Episode 64: Rage Against The Machine 'The Battle of Los Angeles'
10/12/2022
Wow we're already just about at the end of our time with Rage! This week we're talking about the band's final full-length, THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES. It's packed with mega bangers and some of their best material. Also a little catch up on Jake's vacation and talking about seeing movies for a full-time job...
Duration:01:05:11
Episode 63: Rage Against The Machine 'Evil Empire'
9/28/2022
We're back! This week we're talking about Rage Against The Machine's sophomore LP, EVIL EMPIRE. We're digging into all these rippers and also reading some fun listener mail. Let's go!
Duration:01:09:28
Episode 62: Rage Against The Machine 's/t'
9/14/2022
We're finally done with Weezer and moving on to a new band! And we picked a good one (and one with a quick catalog)--this week we're kicking off with Rage Against The Machine! We're talking about their 1992 self-titled album, which rocks extremely hard. DIVE IN.
Duration:01:05:55
Episode 61: Weezer WRAP-UP!
9/7/2022
We made it!! We're finally wrapping up Weezer after FIVE MONTHS. We're ranking their records, running down our top ten favorite songs (and top ten favorite post-Maladroit songs), and trying to figure out what we learned from this whole mess! Do they make the Best Good Band List??? Find out!
Duration:01:32:04
Episode 60: Weezer 'SZNZ: Summer'
8/31/2022
Well folks we've finally reached the most recent Weezer release! We're talking about the absolutely bananas SZNZ: SUMMER EP and then reading some great listener mail that saves us from going insane. Next week: WEEZER WRAP-UP.
Duration:01:13:14
Episode 59: Weezer 'SZNZ: Spring'
8/24/2022
There's a light at the end of the Weezer tunnel and we're heading for it! This week we're talking about the first EP in the band's current SZNZ project. It's springtime and we're gonna find out if we're allergic to these seven songs or not!
Duration:01:04:04
Episode 58: Weezer 'Van Weezer'
8/17/2022
We've reached a milestone in our Weezer journey this week: we're at the band's most recent full-length album (for now)! Just some very long EPs left... But this week we're taking the time machine waaaaaaaay back to last year and diving into VAN WEEZER. Does this record fulfill the promise of its title??
Duration:01:13:16
Episode 57: Weezer 'OK Human'
8/10/2022
This week we're talking about an album that just came out last year!! It's Weezer's fourteenth record, OK HUMAN. But is it an OK ALBUM??? Let's find out!
Duration:01:02:08
Episode 56: Weezer 'The Black Album'
8/3/2022
WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT WEEZER ALBUMS. This week we're digging into THE BLACK ALBUM and trying to figure out how we're supposed to make sense of this band at all at this point. According to Rivers this record is notable because he attempted to swear more. So that's definitely something!
Duration:01:26:23
Episode 55: Weezer 'The Teal Album'
7/27/2022
Our (seemingly endless) journey into Weezer continues this week with a particularly strange detour: THE TEAL ALBUM. A collection of random covers that were all chosen via a computer program that Rivers made? What could go wrong...
Duration:01:09:48