10/10 You're Great

This weeks episode answers the age old question: What if Alvin and the Chipmunks jammed hard and loud? Turns out the answer is Spiderman of the Rings but the second answer would've been Bromst, Dan Deacon's less-chipmunky (Theodore has gone solo) but still pretty jamming second album. Why were there like three lady chipmunks did they ever explain that? That was really weird I didn't like it. Also...

In a nation called Condiment Country a very special album is moving and grooving and its name is Emperor Tomato Ketchup (it's a monarchy). In this week's episode we discuss the divine right of kings and also whether or not the album by Stereolab is a jam which it is-- and it had better be because I'm hearing they made it in a lab for stereos. Also up for discussion: Hot dogs, bananas and beverages...

TONIGHT THIS WEEK TONIGHT -- We return to Return to Cookie Mountain mountain on what is (it turns out) its 18th birthday. After this we're sending you off to die in a war, son! Also up for discussion: a Red Bev Redemption, Beck's folk masterpiece enters middle age, and a TTYG legend has passed. 10/10 You’re Great is presented by The Alternative . Support the site and our show on Patreon . Follow u...

The prequel returns for the first time to right the wrongs of the future present past. We recorded this episode some time back in case we had a week where we couldn't meet up and then Lucas' mouth exploded, Chris went on a long family vacation and Charlie puttered around and took a nap since that's his two friends accounted for. In this episode we reveal why we named these bonus episodes such a st...

Chris is getting frustrated that we are not superfamous yet so he insisted we do the obvious thing and cover an album that no one has ever heard of. Good thing the album he chose is saucy and bossy and sounds 100% exactly like Bee Thousand by Guided by Voices and also exactly like Who Could It Be Now if that was written by Sting or some other non Australian. Note to self: google if Sting from Aust...

In this episode we do not talk about what Kanye has been up to lately. I know that's morally irresponsible because inaction in the face of hatred is complicity but also: we didn't want to do it! It's bad to do Nazi stuff, sorry but you already knew that. That damning preamble aside, this is a good album so we enjoyed talking about it. The episode is kind of a grower because Chris woke us up from c...

The future of content is reacting to content and boy are we content to do that! Some magazine released a list of the 300 greatest albums and its wrong by virtue of not being written by us, three guys who combined recognize upwards of 10 albums. Spoiler alert: Astro Lounge is NOT represented. Also in this episode: we get a new BevCheck and BevCheck theme (!), and Drake dives into an embarrassing si...

We didn't stop posting, to everyone's regret. Yes, for this very special episode we posted on a Friday, which we will also be doing perfectly forever from now on. Also hey, we talk about LCD Soundsystem's self-titled debut LCD Soundsystem. That's the name of the band! Also also we saw them live and enjoyed it! Wow! Also up for discussion: We make expensive real estate moves, and an exceedingly tho...

This week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Go! Team's criminally underrated (and criminally produced) debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike. For like five years I could have sworn it was called Tiger, Lightning, Strike because of the Tiger on the cover. To never make that error again I've replaced the tiger with our horrible baby, Violet. Also found in this episode: Music is ranked by som...

CURSED BY GOD: This episode is FULL of flubs and was our SECOND TRY doing this album so we had to PUT IT OUT. Please ignore EVERY SIN WE COMMIT (including perjury, not knowing how to sync Bluetooth, and lots of hemming and hawing) as we three hims try to discuss Cloud Nothing's 20XX album, Here And Nowhere Else. Unlike this podcast, it is a talented expression of ideas! Also an actual trigger warn...

FROM THE VAULT: This week, one of the hosts is learning to deal with his adult onset hypochondria (turns out its not a form of OCD, which is wild because it sure feels obsessive and compulsive!) so we are digging into the vault! We fished this episode from the dumpster out back, a test pilot that was NOT FIT TO AIR until we RAN OUT OF OPTIONS IMMEDIATELY. In it, we're a little fun and flirty and d...

In this week's episode we follow up on last week's episode by having the same show name, hosts and general format in what critics are calling "yet another episode." Sorry that description was boring because this album absolutely is not: the stellar (lunar?) album that 100% of the critics got totally wrong half of the time, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Also in this episode: Drake does what...

On a very specialsode, your hosts discuss the Killer's audience-alienating (and therefore intrinsically interesting) sophomore debut, Sam's Town. Join them as they explore if Uncle Johnny is actually a "cool uncle", morosely remember When You/They Were Young, and debate whether or not they should've just done Hot Fuss instead. Also up for discussion: A conspiracy-riddled web of lies is unraveled a...

In this week's episode the boys-- I'm sorry literally every podcast calls its host "the boys" we can't be doing that, give me a second to find a thesaurus. In this week's episode the male children discuss your favorite pop-punk band's favorite pop-punk band, Jawbreaker and their magnum opus, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. If you've never heard them before, this is a great opportunity to jump in. If you...

In what some are calling the First Good Episode of the Pod, Chris gets outed as a Fact-Checker for People Who Love to Lie, and, oh yeah -- the boys just happen to trundle their way through the definitive indie rock album of 2004(?) - present day. We played Float On recently at a house party and someone pointed at us and said "Right On" in my imagining of how things should've gone. Other and more c...

On this episode of 10/10 You're Great, we have a new sound board which means an uncharted galaxy of bleeps and boops. It also means the boys will need to learn to vamp as the music is loaded. Speaking of vamp (dracula style [TM Brad Stoker]) this week's topic is the spooky Silent Shout, an album that will haunt the lads as they try to spell "aetherial", fail to use Karin's correct pronouns and in...

Dear listener/reader/watcher, for your approval, please consider this episode in which we three boys flail our way through a problematic and powerful breakup album. Marvel as we complete almost all of our sentences. Gasp as we have an occasional coherent thought. Gnash your teeth each time we bring up Georgie Fruit. Also up for discussion in this record-breakingly long ep (our friends keep saying...

On this episode of 10/10 You're Great the boys learn to appreciate the power of meditation, hiking, field recordings, and the amount of damage a severe squirrel infestation can do to Nick Zammuto's home as we explore his (and Paul de Jong [mustard]'s) masterwork the Lemon of Pink. Not to be confused with Lemon of Troy, the final episode of the Simpson's sixth season, though both do have an earthie...

On this week's episode of 10/10 You're Great the boys were so busy smelling the VD in the club tonight they didn't even bother to stop and consider if they should. That's right, its the so-sexed-up-it's-not-sexy-but-then-comes-around-to-being-sexy-again masterwork that was once rated by Q Magazine as the 50th worst album of all time: Midnite Vultures. The people didn't get it but finally, 25 years...

In this inaugural episode of 10/10 You're Great, 2 out of 3 hosts can correctly say the name of the band they're discussing, which you have to imagine is at least a passing ratio. Why can the third one not say it correctly? I don't know, you'd have to ask his friends why they never corrected him. Sinful behavior really, when Anubis does the feather stuff to them it will weigh heavy on their guts o...