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We're back in the lab, making the myths. Here in Top Ten Songs That Reference Mythology Part 2, our great friend the immortal Gabe Scalone helps us dig deep into some serious lore. We've got tall tales from across the millennia, we've got history and an excellent playlist. Picks 5-1 in our magical top ten list are featured here. If you missed part 1, start here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?" - John Lennon. That's the spirit, John! Top Ten Songs That Reference Mythology is our chance to get out of this world and into the land of metaphors, tall tales and make believe. It also ma...

This is your final warning, people! We order you to have a happy Halloween, and we’ll do our best to help make that happen. For our part, we’re doing our 15th Annual Halloween spectacular, as always with our spooky friend, the king of Halloween Matt Dinan, and also on hand is the world’s greatest Nick Cave fan, that we know, the delightful Kate Bundy. We’re here to pay tribute to the man, the myth...

We don't mind sayin' it! Happy Halloween from your terrifying and terrified pals at All Time Top Ten. This is our 15th Halloween Spectacular, a tradition that goes all the way back to 2012 if the math is correct. With us as always is the king of Spookytown, the great and terrible Matt Dinan. Also on hand is a good friend who might be in the running for Number One Nick Cave Fan, the incomparable Ka...

This is meant as a high compliment. Joe Lavelle is a fount! A fount of great topic ideas for All Time Top Ten, that is, and this one is a classic. Shoutout to all of you wordos and sentence-heads, we did this one for you. Top Ten Songs Whose Title Is A Complete Sentence comes equipped with some important English language lessons, as well as a fun hang and excellent playlist provided in part by the...

If nothing else, Joe Lavelle knows how to have fun. Case in point, he pitched this ridiculously easy and amusing topic. Top Ten Songs Whose Title Is A Complete Sentence is an episode dedicated to all of those wordos out there, who are always listening for gammar-related content. Hope we did you proud! Picks 10-6 of our epic top ten list are featured here in parts 1 of 2. If you want to help feed h...

"A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." - Winnie The Pooh What more can be said? Big time shout out and thank you to our fabulous friends Dustin Prince, Candi Bartlett, Vanessa Narad Axelsen and Mike Axelsen for coming through for us in style. Top Ten Songs About Friendship Volume 2 was an absolute blast! Here in part 2 of 2, we reveal the top half of our...

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything," - Muhammad Ali If there was ever a topic to bring back for a Volume 2, it's Top Ten Songs About Friendship. Fortunately for us, this is also a chance for an excellent hang with some of the friendliest people we...

The concept of the Secret Original Recording has us thinking. If there are songs out there with recordings that languished in obscurity for years if not decades, before being introduced to the masses with a great cover version, what's to stop this from happening again at any time? There are literally millions of songs out in the world, and maybe they're just waiting for the right singer or band or...

Top Ten Secret Original Recordings is a simple enough concept – a great song has a version that everybody knows and loves, but unbeknownst to the masses, the song had a previous life where it languished in obscurity for years, or even decades. Here in TTSOR Volume 3, our good friend Giovanny Blanco is back for his final appearance on All Time Top Ten with another batch of these musical gems that a...

We sincerely hope that we haven't committed blasphemy in the eyes of those in the Church Of Pete. We love The Who! We love Pete, Roger, John and Keith and we really love Tommy. Doing our Classic Albums Worst To First treatment to the songs on Tommy seems crazy, but it was a really fun way for us to dig into the guts of a great album, and appreciate each song on its own merit. My mom, the great Eli...

Warning! We here at All Time Top Ten are about to commit musical crime. We’re about to take one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th Century and change it. We have all of the reverence in the world for Pete Townshend and The Who, so please forgive us! ATTT Classic Albums Worst To First is our chance to go deep into the guts of a great album, and rearrange things. Doing this to The Who’s Tommy...

One of the best things about doing this podcast is when we get to put ourselves in a place and time. For Top Ten Essential College Rock Bands, our special guests Jeremy Levy and David Robinson have put us in the rockin' college town of Columbia, MO and landed us squarely in the heart of the Essential College Rock Bands timeline - the 80s and early 90s. It's been a blast digging into this topic mad...

Mainstream culture in the 1980s was a Ronnie Reagan wet dream. Conformity and corporate consolidation made for a rough time for unique artists looking to have their voices heard. Luckily, there was college radio, and a glowing underground rock scene featuring a truly eclectic collection of bands. ATTT is honored to welcome back our good friend Jeremy Levy and pod newbie David Robinson. Jeremy and...

Call your cable com-pan-ee and say I WANT MY M-T-V! Did we Gen-Xers know who good we had it in the 80s and 90s? Music! On television 24 hours a day! What could be better? At the stroke of midnight, August 1st, 1981, the flag was planted and the declaration declared - "Ladies and gentlemen, rock n roll!" The music video revolution was all-encompassing back in MTV's heyday. They had pop culture in t...

It’s that time of year again, folks! The time has come to summon the ATTT All-Stars for another one of our patented over-the-top All-Stars episodes. Longtime listeners of the show know how this goes. Shannon Hurley, Dustin Prince, Matt Dinan, Joe Lavelle, David Daskal and Gabe Scalone are on hand, and fans of the Old Boy Himself Ryan Blake fear not, he’ll be joining us for Part 2 of this mega epis...

Where would Donald Fagen and Walter Becker have ended up if not for the cream of the crop musicians that they tortured, uh I mean produced on those incredibly perfect Steely Dan records? Nowhere fast. The Steely Dan all-stars should have their own movie! The best we can do here is give them their own episode, and reach out to the greatest if not the coolest Steely Dan fan we know, the surprisingly...

There are many things to love about Steely Dan - the acerbic cleverness of their lyrics, their commitment to sonic perfection, and of course, the incredible musicianship from their unbelievably talented motley crew of session cats - really the best to ever do it. We want to give those players some love in our latest episode. The fabulous Oscar Jordan joins the pod one last time in Top Ten Steely D...

The gloves are off now. Shannon Hurley comes out firing with banger after banger here in Point/Counterpoint: Early Bee Gees vs DIsco Era Bee Gees Part 2. The Hurley is obsessed with all things Gibb, and her exuberance for the majesty of the Bee Gees Disco Era is in peak form. Picks 5-1 are featured in the conclusion of our friendly competition. The winner is us! If you missed Part 1, in which Ben...

The Bee Gees had one of the most unpredictable and astounding career arcs in music history. Who knew that 3 teenage brothers picking up guitars in Australia would own Swinging London within a few years., or that they would go on to have success that dwarfs their initial run when the world caught disco fever, and they were right at the pinnacle of it. Their story needs to be told in 2 parts, and th...

It's been a good rage-filled run here at ATTT HQ. We're pretty proud of this long-running series that gives us a chance to highlight some poopy music. The final installation of the Rage series is in the books, and to nobody's surprise, our friend David Daskal came through for us in Top Ten Rage-Inducing Lyrics. An excellent hang and, uh, questionable playlist means we had a lot of fun. Picks 5-1 a...

RAGE! We deserve to be filled with white hot rage right now, with the state of the world and all of the stupid, stupid, stupidity going on. We can also get our RAGE on for some trivial things, like bad lyrics. Like the songs with the worst lyrics of all time. We went there, and our great friend the diabolical David Daskal is back to help us pull out some stinky songs in Top Ten Rage-Inducing Lyric...

ATTT has been beyond honored to have had the immortal Fuzzbee Morse as a special guest on 9 of our episodes, and Top Ten Fuzzbee All-Stars is the best possible send off for the man who has everything. Fuzzbee is truly the Zelig of rock n roll, but with as much talent as the luminaries he has chummed around with over the decades. Fuzzbee's got this whole top ten list to himself, and his All-Stars a...

This is a first for All Time Top Ten. For Top Ten Fuzzbee All-Stars, our special guest Fuzzbee Morse has the entire top ten list all to himself, and boy is it deserved. One of the greatest musical minds on the planet, Fuzzbee Morse has led a Zelig-esque existence complete with amazing recordings and live performances with some of the greatest rock stars, thieves and rascals in music history. Fuzzb...

Like most people, we're big fans of artists that bring us into their world, and given everything that's happening out there, John Denver's world seems like the place you'd want to spend an hour or two in. Join us as we welcome back the inimitable Helene Eisen for one last pod, this one featuring her all-time favorite artist. Top Ten John Denver Songs is just what this sorrow-filled world needs rig...