Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

Like, gag us with a spoon! It was a totally gnarly topic this week. Join the Lads and their fake new wave bands, The Highscore Kids, Hooper Dream, and VHS Lazer (pew-pew-pew), as they attempt to count down their Top 5 New Wave Songs.   Featuring such hits as*:   The Highscore Kids - "Is The Girl Who Looks Like Belinda Really Going Out With Him?"   Hooper Dream - "We Got The Meat"   VHS Lazer - "Do...

Ah, 1974. Bueno was a young, wild teenager with a Greg Brady perm harboring a crush for Helen Hunt. Uncle Gregg was a wee toddler digging the Electric Company and special brownies. Baby Brett Weird was just entering the world, no doubt with a stack of obscure Mongolian records in his crib. Yup, that's how we remember 1974.   The Lads recount their favorite albums from 1974 - the wild, the weird, a...

Here at O3L, we don’t just talk about great guitarists...we have great guitarists join us! And it doesn’t get much better than art rock pioneers and founding members of the legendary Athens, GA alternative scene (and our new BFFs), LOVE TRACTOR. For this episode, we are joined by guitarists Mark Cline & Mike Richmond and bassist Armistead Wellford as we all discuss our favorite guitarists...celebr...

PART ONE:   We had such a great time with Mark, Mike and Army from Love Tractor that it ended up being our most epic show yet. They had so many incredible and hilarious stories that we present a two part bonus feature, Fun to be Happy: O3L in Conversation with Love Tractor. Believe us, do not miss these. Some of the best moments are on these episodes.   We cover everything from Love Tractor histor...

    PART TWO:   We had such a great time with Mark, Mike and Army from Love Tractor that it ended up being our most epic show yet. They had so many incredible and hilarious stories that we present a two part bonus feature, Fun to be Happy: O3L in Conversation with Love Tractor. Believe us, do not miss these. Some of the best moments are on these episodes.   We cover everything from Love Tractor hi...

Finish this sentence: All she wants is...   Need help? The answer was a new O3L, and "she" (and the rest of you) will get exactly that! Join the Lads on a trip back to 1988 for their favorite songs of the year.   Only Three Lads: an anomaly in the podcast pool.   Oh, and by the way, if you're wondering where the Top 5 Guitar Heroes episode went...we've bumped it to next week. It's going to be wort...

In the O3L world, 1976 was the calm before the storm. In the year before the punk rock explosion, there wasn't a lot of "alternative" albums, but lawdy, lawdy, lawdy...the albums covered this week were some of the seminal records of the era.   We are fortunate to be joined this week by Francois Palay (aka Jean F. Palay, aka JFP), author of the books Night Of Destruction: The Stooges And Other Stor...

So, tell us what you want.  What you really, really want.  What's that?  You say what you really, really want is a brand new nugget-coughin', apple-chewin', nut-zippin', man-crushin' episode of O3L?  Well, you just happen to be in luck! Join Stiff-Bone Spice (Bueno), Hoser Spice (Brett) and Creepy Spice (Uncle Gregg) on an insanely fun journey back to the bygone days of 1996! Learn more about your...

How were the albums in 1983?  In the immortal words of Tony the Tiger, they were GRRRRREAT!   But what's gotten into the lads during Episode 51?  Was it an alien takeover?  They get a little kooky on this one...don't say we didn't warn ya.     But, hey, did we mention that 1983 was an awesome year?  So grab a spoonful of vegemite, sit back and enjoy O3L! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Well, it seems that we have some celebrating to do here at O3L headquarters.  It's the big Episode 5-0, so we had to celebrate this milestone with something special.  So how about Vanessa Briscoe Hay from the legendary post-punk band Pylon?  This highly influential band was called "the greatest arty party band" and "eons ahead of their time" by Rolling Stone, "raw, minimalist, brainy and danceable...

BONUS EPISODE!  Did we mention what a thrill it was to have Vanessa Briscoe Hay on O3L?  She shared so many wonderful memories with us that we are bringing you additional content that was not featured in the regular show!   Well, it seems that we have some celebrating to do here at O3L headquarters.  It's the big Episode 5-0, so we had to celebrate this milestone with something special.  So how ab...

Hey baby...what are you wearing?  Oooh, an old oversized Joy Division t-shirt?  Ohhhhh yeeeeeah, that's soooooo HOT! You know what else is hot?  This week's O3L, where we discuss our Top 5 classic alternative love songs.   So, what are you waiting for?  Snuggle up with that special someone, turn the lights down low, and get into the mood with the #1 podcast in Flanders.*   * There has been no evid...

Most singles only go to 7 inches...these go to 12.   In our very first Listener's Choice episode, the randomizer selected a topic suggested by Paige Rockwell, wherein we discuss our Top 5 12" singles.  Thanks for the idea, Paige!      This episode is also special for another reason, as this week marks the first anniversary of O3L.  We appreciate you sticking with us this year.  For that, you all g...

For this supersized episode of Only Three Lads, we bring you our top artists from the final five year stretch of the O3L era.  Uncle Gregg brought up an interesting comment about one of his picks that [insert artist name here] "owned" the late '90s.  And then he said the same thing about his next artist...and the next...so who really DID own the '90s?  Truth be told, it was more like a timeshare. ...

Hey hey, we’re the Grungies!  Put on your flannel, broskis, and relive some of the best grunge-era albums with O3L.  That’s if you can muster up the energy, ya slackers!   What made Brett fear this episode so much?  Is the fact that “grunge” was a four letter word to him in the ‘90s?  Is it the fact that, if he thought that “grunge” was a four letter word, his spelling might need some work?  Is it...

Don't think that we don't realize the incredible serendipity of Episode 45 celebrating some of the best treasures found on the flip side of 45 rpm singles.   Well, and the extra tracks found on CD singles, but that's not nearly as serendipitous.  By the way, "serendipity" will score you 17 points on Scrabble.  You'll learn about some other big Scrabble words to use on this episode too.  You're wel...

This week, we bring you all the "hot topics" on O3L: apple bongs, teenage doctors, hangin' out at the mall, showering with our listeners.  Cuz we're punk rock!! Hey, while we're at the mall, can we swing by and pick up a Bueno decoder ring?  We're gonna need it. Oh yeah, and we manage to work in our Top 5 '90s Punk Albums while we're at it.  Trust us, it's more fun than beating up a mall cop! Lear...

OK, we promised that Season 2 of O3L would be bigger and better...so what better way to kick it off than with a living legend? SiriusXM, radio and TV personality, author, screenwriter, game show contestant (and did we mention legend?) RICHARD BLADE is our very special guest. For this episode, we each (including Richard) picked our Top 5 songs from Richard Blade's classic six volume "Flashback Favo...

You won't want to miss our extended conversation with the legendary Richard Blade!  Richard was very generous with his time and shared so many amazing, revealing stories, from how he got his name to encounters with Michael Jackson, Barbara Streisand and Sean Connery.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the Lads hop in the time machine and leave the O3L era behind for the distant future to discuss their top albums of 2020.  For this year end spectacular (for an...um...less than spectacular year), they are joined by Sean Dowdell from Grey Daze.  Grey Daze was Chester Bennington's pre-Linkin Park band, who had reunited shortly before Bennington's death.  Using vintage vocals, the band re...

This special O3L bonus episode contains an extended conversation with Sean Dowdell of Grey Daze.  Sean hangs out with the Lads to discuss his friendship and musical partnership with Chester Bennington, the creative process behind their #1 rock album Amends, our very own Uncle Gregg's impact on the Grey Daze story and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode, Lad Brett premieres his new album "The Vargo Family Christmas Album."  This is a compilation of original holiday tunes that the Vargo family has recorded between 2013-2020.  Includes the new song "Light Up The World" and 11 other modern classics to bring the joy of the season.   From the O3L family to yours, we wish you a joyous holiday season.  Your continued support has be...

Oi to the world!  Happy Holidays from Only Three Lads!  For this very special episode, we not only cover our Top 5 Holiday Songs from the classic alternative era...but we invited the O3L Community to join us!  Five oh-so-lucky listeners were able to take part in the show to share their favorite yuletide tunes, play some games, and have oodles of fun (oodles, we say...obviously!).   Thanks to our s...

OK, so can we just agree that 1982 was one of the greatest years ever for classic alternative music?  The Lads came up with some doozies this week!  Aside from discussing some of the best songs that the year had to offer, we talk video games, snorting CDs, post-apocalypse Tom Petty, and Uncle Gregg's uncanny similarities to Babe Ruth.  So, pretty much everything you'd come to expect from Only Thre...

"And it's here where our journey through time begins, to exhume that rarest of pop cadavers...the One Hit Wonder."  On this episode, the lads celebrate the best of the one hit wonders of the classic alternative era - the songs that stormed the charts, only to find that their respective artists couldn't quite replicate their hit song's commercial success.  Plus, Uncle Gregg likes to cuddle, Bueno g...