Huntsman Hill: A Music Retrospective

DC's criminally underrated Soulside becomes the first band in the history of the podcast to garner back to back episodes.  Pt 1 is dedicated to the bands sophomore effort, an LP that could have been discussed on our "15 Perfect Albums" episode.  In our estimation, it's a Post Hardcore classic.       RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP142:  Compilations  https://huntsmanhill.com/2020...

Some of these bands suck.  S ome of these bands are just fine and s ome of these bands are really good but not as good as their fandom would have you believe.  All of these bands are extremely successful.  We ask why?     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9...

This one gone to eleven.    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     Slomsa https://open.spotify.com/artist/0l7GXb53ndWn97ul8Hpfzd?si=dKRr65zSSLOKQNFilIdxiw   Noisey: NOLA Sludge  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_HIIWP6T_gt-eTMDCJcly1dWORIH8aLX   Movie Hard Rock: The Dewey Cox Story  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.c...

What makes an album perfect?  No skippable songs?  A front to back cohesive listen?  An emotional through line?  The answer lies in the ear of the beholder.  We each make the argument for five that we think are perfect tens.   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP12:  Beastie Boys VINYL CAGE MATCH "Check Your Head" vs "Ill Communication" https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/02/12/ep12-beasti...

We're the Huntsman Hill Polanco Podcast and we suck.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP182:  Possessed "Seven Churches" https://huntsmanhill.com/2022/07/10/ep182-possessed-seven-churches/   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=waSq07DBQlq3x9G1_nK0pg   Our Music manhuntsman...

How many highly influential bands never became as popular as the those they influenced?  How many others were huge in their native country but were never able to achieve similar success in the US?  We identify 15 of them to give them they proper due.      RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     Bezelbong https://open.spotify.com/artist/3MffQ9fJsgtOEqW8GvzJW8?si=ymL--vA6QKqbcJm6uPD_Cg   29....

The prodigal son returns!  After a five episode absence Rod is back to spend an hour and twenty minutes to discuss the seven and a half minute debut by Jack Grisham, Ron Emory and the boys (preempted by twenty minutes of Mike's recent music explorations and Rod's epic trip to Tokyo).    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     Jack Grisham & Keith Morris "Sweet Transvestite  https://open.sp...

"Go shit I'm not a fish!"    RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP78:  Voivod "Killing Technology" https://huntsmanhill.com/2018/09/30/ep78-voivod-killing-technology/   VoiVod "The Wake" https://open.spotify.com/album/097DmmcskEDBUEgFJaIbvG?si=F_CjkJDwS7Gm8odL8RTiBw   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4...

Ray said:  "Let's talk about a double-live album that's almost 40 years old, spans 18 tracks, is steeped in personal nostalgia and was recorded at shows that we both attended in 1985."  So we did, for almost 2 hours.  Scream for me Long Beach!!!     RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP112:  Iron Maiden "The Number of the Beast" https://huntsmanhill.com/2019/09/21/ep112-iron-maiden-th...

When does nostalgic appreciation for an album supersede your critical opinion of it?  Do you listen with your heart or your head?  Are they mutually exclusive?  Can you like something even if you think it's bad?  Mötley Crüe's second LP forces us to answer  these questions while diving headlong back into our past selves to understand how we felt about this goofiness once upon a time.       RIP Bob...

NARDCORE!!!      Maui Donation Fund https://www.mauicounty.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx? AID=12656   RIP Robbie Robertson RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     "American Girl"  https://open.spotify.com/track/6BUa2tl1GmudK75CCUbXxz?si=52f7c07e3b7c41f5   Contact us at:   huntsmanhillpodcast@gmail.com Spotify Playlist:   https://open.spotify.com/user/1298220429/playlist/4gy1wWwypkoFS2lUztvZ44?si=wa...

After eight classic album with Ozzy Osbourne (ok, six plus "Technical Ecstasy" & "Never Say Die") and two very strong releases with Ronnie James Dio, it was former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillian's turn to take the mic for Black Sabbath's eleventh studio album.  Apart from the bands name, that release has little in common with their previous efforts.  Mike and Dave discuss the good, bad and bizarre...

3/4 of the world is starving the rest are dead     RIP Sinéad O'Connor RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening :   Mid City Three https://open.spotify.com/album/26usAX1sbshznZP5DwRPUK?si=FggXATv6Tg2HBzrIqL0ySQ   Sinéad O'Connor https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sD9znwiVFx9cgRPZ42aQ1?si=uLRyLS57TY2VnCpwW0dx8g   Econochrist  https://open.spotify.com/artist/1DLVhhPxteU9tIkcRAfPyO?si=nGfFXqIvSlitKpb...

Buzzcocks first three proper studio albums, released from 1977-'81, are all very good but nothing released by the band (or really any other band) before or since can touch their 1979 singles compilation.  Whether or not you're a fan of Punk, Pop Punk, Power Pop or the fucking Beatles, Singles Going Steady is undeniable.  It's a lesson in world class song writing with a driving pulse and hooks for...

The San Jose, California Doom Metal practitioners have never shied away from their devotion to Black Sabbath (they have a song called "Giza Butler" for god's sake), and while the Birmingham legends influence looms large over the the trios sound, unlike many of their peers, Sleep are wholly unique.  There is an atmosphere that  Al Cicneros, Mike Pike and Chris Hakius  are able to create that has al...

The Stooges 1969 debut is ground zero for no less than three rock sub genres and birthed hundreds of bands in its wake.  It is to punk what Sabbath's eponymous first record is to metal.   Not only are both records endlessly listenable but each have long stood the test of time and also contain two of the greatest songs written by anyone, ever.  We finally return to Ann Arbor.      RIP Bob Nalbandia...

If Thrash Metal was chocolate and Hardcore Punk was peanut butter then the mid 80's sub-genre Crossover was Reese's peanut butter cups.  DRI, Corrosion of Conformity, Agnostic Front & Suicidal Tendencies are heralded as masters of the sound and each put out classic albums in the mid '80's.  One band rarely mentioned among these titans is San Francisco's Attitude Adjustment who's 1986 debut is as p...

1987 was a watershed year for Hip Hop.  It saw the debut albums from Ice-T, NWA & the Posse, Boogie Down Productions and Eric B & Rakim.  All are certifiable classics but it was Public Enemy's debut that was sonically the most adventurous.  The beeps and wails of the Bomb Squads production coupled with Chuck D's booming baritone and Flavor Flav's enticing prompts was unlike anything that had come...

"If you listen to the HHPP the Mob Rules!!!"  The best post Ozzy Sabbath album hands down (yes, that includes Heaven & Hell). Don't agree?  Listen to Mike and Big Daddy Dave make the case.    RIP Ronnie James Dio RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening:     EP222BS:  "Heaven and Hell" https://huntsmanhill.com/2023/05/14/ep222bs-black-sabbath-heaven-and-hell/   EP25:  Metallica VINYL CAGE MATCH...

A very special episode of the HHPP that begins as a discussion about one of Rodney's all-time favorite records and evolves into an examination of that mysterious quality in music that gives it the power to touch us each in unique and unexplainable ways.  One of our most personal episodes yet.   RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening :   EP45:  Supersuckers "The Evil Powers of Rock N Roll" http...

Living Colour were (are?) a capital "R" rock band without the benefit (or hinderance) of any of the sub-genre designations assigned to many of their peers.  Songs like "Desperate People" and the massive hit "Cult of Personality" had driving, high-energy verses and soaring, singable chorus' that were primed for drive time radio.  What separated them from those peers were their insane, Berklee level...

The Cure's third long player doubles down on the despair that began with 1980's "Seventeen Seconds" and would culminate on 1982's "Pornography." Of the three "Faith" feels the most personal to singer songwriter Robert Smith as the increasingly personal lyrics detail a world of a drowning man whose doubt of his own faith increases as other voices interrupt his primary colored world seeing all cats...

Big Daddy Dave joins the show for the first in a series of episodes dedicated to each of Black Sabbath's post Ozzy records.  We of course begin with the Ronnie Jame Dio's first album with the band, "heaven and Hell."  In addition to its classic title track there's a lot to like here but is it really a Black Sabbath album?  We discuss.      RIP Ronnie James Dio RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended List...

Topics include government induced pandemics, suburban homes turned into yuppy prisons, blindly trusting self-appointed authorities, getting swept up in the crazed adrenaline of an angry mob and corporate surveillance.  1982 or 2022?      RIP D.H. Peligro  RIP Bob Nalbandian   Recommended Listening :   EP9 Dead Kennedys "Frankenchrist" https://huntsmanhill.com/2017/01/22/ep-9-dead-kennedys-frankenc...

Booking a compelling music festival is tough.  You need the right venue, a good range of bands and your headliner is crucial to the events financial success.  So, if you had to curate your own Punk Rock fest with a ten band lineup and a limited budget, how would you go about it?  Would you focus on more affordable, up and coming acts or would you lean into legacy bands that tug on the nostalgia of...