Huntsman Hill: A Music Retrospective

More songs about hot rods, hard times, outlaws and missing your baby. Do we really need a new Social Distortion record in 2026? Maybe not but if we were gonna get one, we could have done a lot worse than Born to Kill. Mike, Rod & Glenn reconvene to discuss their history with the band, how Social D's music has endured over the years and how the new record holds up against their classic material.   ...

In 1993,  Fugazi  spent a weekend in Chicago recording 12 songs with  Steve Albini —intended as the follow-up to  Steady Diet of Nothing . But when the two sides independently agreed the sessions fell short, they scrapped them. Later that year the band re-recorded the material with  Ted Nicely , released it as their third studio LP,  In on the Kill Taker . The original "Albini sessions" became leg...

The Chicago legends sophomore LP is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year and our power trio has reassembled to deep dive into it's eleven tracks as well as individually rank the bands six studio albums. Free shit indeed!   RIP Pierre Kezdy   Naked Raygun Album Rankings Mike 1. All Rise  2. Throb Throb 3. Understand? 4. Jettison  5. Over the Overlords  6. Raygun…Naked Raygun    Rod  1.  Jett...

We're back! In our first episode since the Best of 2024, exactly 12 months ago, we've regrouped to talk about our favorite songs, albums, bands and music ephemera of the otherwise shitty year of 2025.  We hope to record new episodes more regularly in the new year but if we can't get our acts together, we'll see you in December 2026!      Recommended Listening   2025 Top 5's   Mike 5. Genre: Metal...

We're back to say goodbye to 2024. Our annual best of the year episode is chalk full of everything you've come to expect from the HHPP, excited exaggeration, mild disagreements and ten punk selections from Glenn (some of which he's actually heard). See you in '25!      Recommended Listening   Songs of the Year:     Glenn: Alkaline Trio "Shake With Me"  https://open.spotify.com/track/4rRFTcNXhp2y2t...

After an extended hiatus we're back for Glenn to host a somber conversation about our feelings after the 2024 presidential election as well as a discussion about some great music to listen to during these dark days.    Recommended Listening   Propagandhi "Resisting Tyrannical Government" https://open.spotify.com/track/5XBULh827S6WbryedLvFqi?si=a2cb8e373f1e4b51   The Specials "Nelson Mandela"  http...

What's a good horror movie without a terrifying score? A simple Google search will show you that The Shining can be marketed as a romantic comedy with the right music. Our Halloween episode has Mike, Rod & Glenn talking through the songs that have scared them the most throughout their lives. Don't listen in the dark.     Recommended Listening   EP181: Overkill "Feel The Fire" https://huntsmanhill....

This is the third episode we've dedicated to the Bauhaus frontman's solo work but only the second album we've discussed (we  inexplicably recorded two episodes about his sophomore LP "Love  Hysteria"). Both are chock full of excellent songwriting and of course Murphy's chill-inducing baritone but they are not without their flaws and some definitive signs of carbon dating. We discuss.   Recommended...

 With the LA punk institution NOFX recently calling it a career, we look back at their breakthrough 1994 release and discuss whether it's a pop punk classic or a steaming pile of crap. Maybe it's both.      Recommended Listening   HHPP Playlist Track:  "Linoleum" https://open.spotify.com/track/4uB28m7RAflobYpnLMb6A2?si=15af5d7ef2324d3e   HHPP Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/12982...

Ozzy is back and not a second too soon. We wrap our Sabbath Series with their 2013 reunion LP.  The album saw the return of two thirds of the original quartet and while drummer Bill Ward is certainly missed, the magic that Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler had way back when things all began in 1970 is absolutely still very much in tact. The atmosphere, the riffs, the wonderful doom and g...

J. Robbins legacy in the punk/indie rock world was cemented years ago. As the driving creative force behind Jawbox, Burning Airlines, Channels and Office of Future Plans as well as the producer of some of the best records of the early aughts including classics by Jets to Brazil, The Dismemberment Plans, Shiner and The Promise Ring, he has left an indelible mark on the guitar-driven rock of the pas...

The penultimate episode of our Black Sabbath series and the last before we get to return to the soothing voice of Ozzy Osbourne. Geezer Butler has again departed and as we have learned, that means a significant dip in quality. It does nothing to diminish the legacy of the Birmingham greats as their legacy was cemented decades prior to this albums release, but it is fair to say that our conversatio...

Mike introduces the boys to one of his favorite records of 2022, a light listen through topics ranging from homelessness, drug addiction and serial killers. The album closes with suicidal thoughts prompted by a beloved McDonald's mascot and the episode was appropriately recorded on Friday the 13th which happens to be the subject of track three "Pamela" which imagines what Mrs. Vorhees life might o...

Glenn hosts our lively conversation about the Naples Florida punk band's major label debut. The hooks are big and the messages are clear (maybe too clear) but how does this breakthrough LP hold up almost twenty years after its release? We discuss.    HHPP Playlist Track: "Up the Cuts"  https://open.spotify.com/track/3H1ehVh38MFVJ9hRV5l7u8?si=d2f49bf7e43f46be   HHPP Spotify Playlist:   https://open...

The latest (and apparently last) studio album from the LA legends is a worthy addition to their catalog. It's filled with everything we've come to love from the band since their debut almost forty years ago. John and Exene's autobiographical lyrics, Billy Zoom's unmistakable tempo drenched Gretsch and DJ's Bonebrake's splashy hi-hat all shine across ten bangers that speed by at a brisk 29 minutes....

We love Fugazi. "Yeah, it's totally cool."    Recommended Listening:     EP59: Fugazi "Repeater"  https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/04/19/ep59-fugazi-repeater/   HHPP Playlist Tracks:  "Suggestion" https://open.spotify.com/track/6eD7yC9Z7pLlmF3D0cdBdE?si=9c046854cbfc4cce "Glue Man"  https://open.spotify.com/track/2WVG1KwQDfGbdItg55ScQL?si=7ee6edf7daf64a0d   HHPP Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotif...

This episode takes us back to the late eighties to discuss our favorite albums from the years that we each graduated from high school. It's a fun conversation about the records that have held up all these later and how our musical tastes have evolved over the subsequent years. It's also a stark reminder of how old we are. Happy graduation!   Recommended Listening:     EP1: Jane's Addiction  https:...

Our old pal Patrick joins us to discuss how well the SoCal band's debut holds up 42 years after its release.    Recommended Listening:     EP60: Bad Religion "Suffer" https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/04/29/ep60-bad-religion-suffer/   HHPP Playlist Track: "In the Night"  https://open.spotify.com/track/2xFJ6xaHnRMdqVZCJGTLK8?si=443882f5de0a4008   HHPP Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1...

Dave Lutes returns for part three of the Cure's original "Dark Trilogy." A great conversation about how Pornography (so to speak) introduced Dave to his wife and may have been a precursor to both the Industrial and Shoegaze subgenres of Alternative Rock.      Recommended Listening:     HHPP EP189: "Seventeen Seconds" https://open.spotify.com/episode/04GUTWqC9yeWC0D0F4GHaL?si=0ef249d57616499d HHPP...

Glenn returns from Columbia for Take two for our One Hit Wonders lost episode. It's a highly entertaining conversation about some bands that are long forgotten and their songs that never will be.    RIP Mr. Polanco    HHPP Spotify Tracks:   Fastball "The Way,"  https://open.spotify.com/track/7IsEXPk6qqt30FfQv4SZMa?si=55365de3ebca4f21 Icicle Works "Whisper to a Scream"  https://open.spotify.com/tra...

Just as soon as Ronnie James Dio returned to Black Sabbath for the Dehumanizer record, he just as quickly departed again to make room (also again) for the return of Tony Martin. Given the spottiness (to be generous) of previous Martin led Sabbath albums we were skeptical and not necessarily excited about diving into Cross Purposes however, our concerns were quickly alleviated. From Track One / Sid...

While Seattle had Nirvana and Olympia had Sleater-Kinney, Issaquah Washington had it's own great 90's power trio in Modest Mouse, a band of weirdos who had a kick-ass rhythm section with chops for days and a singer/songwriter in guitarist Issac Brock, that had the perfect lisp-ridden voice to convey his stories of suburban America's dark decay with equal measure anger, frustration and disappointme...

As a follow up to episode 264 when we discussed "Unknown Pleasures," Rod hosts a conversation about Joy Division's sophomore and final release. One of very few bands to release back to back classics and to have a perfect .1000 batting average. As amazing as their first record is, one could argue that "Closer" is even better. We do.   HHPP Spotify Track:  "A Means To An End" https://open.spotify.co...

We finally got to Athens!  Recommended Listening   HHPP Spotify Track:    "Radio Free Europe" https://open.spotify.com/track/46dGFTD918NMz1IP1rPJXO?si=8608658638b040cb   Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com   huntsmanhill.com instagram.com/huntsmanhill https://twitter....

Ronnie James Dio returns and Sabbath is Black again!     Recommended Listening:     San Frannsicso Motorcycle Club  https://www.sf-mc.org/   HHPP Playlist Track: Buried Alive  https://open.spotify.com/track/5wpU8C6ImThofG0J7C9cXU?si=e793163f449f4d57   HHPP Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Contact us at:   hunts...