On The Wreck Chord

In this episode we continue our head to head battle to the death between the Fat Music and Punk-O-Rama compilation series.  This episode focuses on volumes 3 and 4 of each.  We also get the exciting conclusion to the current mini campaign of Basements and Boneheads.  And we look back on season 3 and talk about our favorite records from the season.

We start comparing the Fat Music and Punk O Rama comps.  The basements and boneheads campaign from Bonus Fat Volume 2 continues.  We also talk about our favorites from 2023.  Stay tuned for part 2!

Albums Discussed:   Consumed - Breakfast at Papa's Swingin Utters - Sounds Wrong The Ataris - Look Forward to Failure Dillinger Four - Midwestern Songs of the Americas https://fatwreck.com/products/breakfast-at-pappas https://fatwreck.com/products/the-sounds-wrong-e-p https://fatwreck.com/products/look-forward-to-failure   Season Finale!  It's an EP episode!  There's a lot of talk about Cincinnati...

Albums Discussed:   Swingin' Utters - Five Lessons Learned Armchair Martian - S/T Samiam - You Are Freaking Me Out https://fatwreck.com/collections/swingin-utters/products/five-lessons-learned   This record has a lot of personnel.  We are shockingly positive about this record.  Are macbook cords caviar for cats?  Should you trust that car from your gearhead friend?  What are the potential conseque...

Albums Discussed:   Snuff - Tweet Tweet My Lovely Husker Du - Zen Arcade Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams   https://fatwreck.com/products/tweet-tweet-my-lovely   Snuff:  a ticking timebomb.  Humor, ability, and nine different tempos.  What a deadly combination.  Ben makes a god damn fool out of himself reading tweets he thinks are funny.  "I love this 70 minute record."   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.g...

Albums Discussed:   Strung Out - Twisted By Design Bigwig - Stay Asleep Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion   https://fatwreck.com/products/twisted-by-design   We all love this record.  We talk about our ultimate devotions.  We also read a buzzfeed listicle about torture.     LTD Guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHQ7e2XlfXc  

Albums Discussed:   Tilt - Collect Em All Fifteen - Lucky Dance Hall Crashers - Honey I'm Homely   https://fatwreck.com/products/collect-em-all   The lyrical content of this album makes for some interesting discussions.  Action movies, Oscar bait movies, and partial birth abortions OH MY.

Albums Discussed:   Good Riddance - Ballads from the Revolution Kid Dynamite - Kid Dynamite Kill Your Idols - This Is Just the Beginning   https://fatwreck.com/products/ballads-from-the-revolution   One of us sings this episode.  Alex is at risk of drowning in historic floods.  Josh is a pants guy now.  We read some fan feedback.  There's discussion of a potential patreon feature.  RIP Main Entran...

Albums Discussed:   88 Fingers Louie - The Teacher Gets It Snuff - Schminkie Minkie Pinkie Goober Patrol - Eight of Spades Avail - Over The James   https://fatwreck.com/products/the-teacher-gets-it https://fatwreck.com/products/schminkie-minkie-pinkie https://fatwreck.com/products/eight-of-spades   An EP potpourri!  We discuss the finer points of sleeping on the couch.  This episode also features...

Albums discussed:   Bracket - Novelty Forever Teen Idols - S/T Knapsack - This Conversation Is Ending Starting Right Now   https://fatwreck.com/products/novelty-forever   Alex is invisible and Ben is popping in and out of reality.  We're talking Novelty Forever.  Ben tells us about a traumatic coffee accident that resulted in an ER visit.  We discuss Oppenheimer's attempt at assassinating his prof...

Albums discussed:   Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum Bouncing Souls - S/T Green Day - Nimrod   https://fatwreck.com/products/double-plaidinum   We are joined by Justin to talk Lagwagon again.  We discuss whether the album title is a KISS reference or not. 

Records discussed:   No Use For a Name - Making Friends Silent Majority - Life of a Spectator Shelter - Beyond Planet Earth   https://fatwreck.com/products/making-friends   Season 3 features more records we do not like than ever before.  Making Friends is one of them.  This is an album titled Making Friends but all of the subjects in the song lyrics sound like terrible friends.  We talk about imag...

Albums discussed: Snuff - Melons and Potatoes Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers Rancid - Life Won't Wait   https://fatwreck.com/products/potatoes-and-melons-wholesale-prices-straight-from-the-lock-up   Snuff is bringing you some sweet sweet ska on this one.  This is basically a cover album.

We are back for season 3, and first up is Hi-Standard's "Angry Fist".  We talk about our records as fighters on the break.

Happy International Asteroid Day!  We have fanmail for once.  Ben commits Harry Caray in shame.

Happy Flag Day!!!  We beta test a new Table Top RPG called Basements and Boneheads.  Think D&D mixed with something like Mother or Undertale.  There's a detour to talk about John Cena's view on "mistakes".  We talk about our favorite records from 2022 and share it with you halfway through 2023.

Albums Discussed:  Me First & The Gimme Gimme's - Have A Ball;  Movies Watched:  SLC Punk;  https://fatwreck.com/products/have-a-ball ;  Season Finale!  We're joined by our friend Justin to talk about Me First and the Gimme Gimmes "Have a Ball"!  It's great he's here because Alex and Ben don't really like this record.  When will we see a Punk Goes Drill comp?  We speculate on Joey Cape's whistling...

Albums Discussed:  Screw 32 - Under the Influence of Bad People;  AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes;  The Nerve Agents - The Nerve Agents;  https://fatwreck.com/products/under-the-influence-of-bad-people ;  Ponderosa Pondo-Combo We Want Value!  A value packed episode where we talk about three records we all love.  We play a new game called "Who's on Fat?".  We also play a game called "Famou...

Albums Discussed:  Bracket - E Is For Everything; The Promise Ring - Nothing Feels Good; Superchunk - Here's Where The Strings Come In;  https://fatwreck.com/products/e-is-for-everything-on-fat ; A real change of pace.  We get sidetracked admiring the Caroline Records roster.  We're all just guests in someone else's talk show.   B is for Bondage Volume 1.  We chuckle way too much.  We research Fra...

Albums Discussed:  Screeching Weasel - Bark Like a Dog;  Descendents - Everything Sucks;  The Queers - Don't Back Down;  https://fatwreck.com/products/bark-like-a-dog ;  Ben Weasel, he's an asshole.  Ben Weasel, he's a jerk.  That's it.

Albums Discussed:  Swinging Utters - A Juvenile Product of the Working Class;  Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash;  US Bombs - Garibaldi Guard!;   https://fatwreck.com/products/a-juvenile-product-of-the-working-class ;  Were the Utters originally supposed to be a New Jack Swing band?  Ben screws up a Dirty Work joke.  More Dropkick Murphys hate.  "Spicy McHaggis can eat a mea...

Albums Discussed:  Snuff - Snuff Said;  Snuff - Flibbiddydibbiddydob; Dillinger Four - This Shit Is Genius;  https://fatwreck.com/products/snuff-said ;  https://fatwreck.com/collections/snuff/products/flibbidydibbidydob ;  First episode this season that is under an hour.  Snuff-o-palooza!  What's your favorite jingle?  Online these records are only on Youtube so we pretty openly admit to never buy...

Albums Discussed:  Goober Patrol - Vacation;  Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition;  Less Than Jake - Losing Streak;  https://fatwreck.com/products/vacation ; No mercy: this is a dumb band name.  But this album is shockingly good.  https://rateyourmusic.com/label/thems_good_records/  

Albums discussed:  Good Riddance - A Comprehensive Guide to Moderne Rebellion;  Redemption 87 - Redemption 87;  Ensign - The Direction of Things to Come;  https://fatwreck.com/products/a-comprehensive-guide-to-moderne-rebellion ;  Rebellious cats!  Personal politics!  We talk about our own acts of Moderne Rebellion.  Pushead Top 100 trivia.  I think it's neat!  

Albums discussed:  Strung Out - Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues;  Deadguy - Fixation on a Coworker;  Pulley - Esteem Driven Engine;  https://fatwreck.com/products/suburban-teenage-wasteland-blues-reissue ;  Another all time classic Fat Wreck Chords release.  Would you rather hear Bob Dylan cover Spazz, or Spazz cover Bob Dylan?  We're not happy about the remixed and remastered version of the albu...