Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast

Happy Thanksgiving from O3L!  Or, if you're not listening on release day and/or not in the U.S., Happy Whatever Day It Is!  Regardless, in this crazy year, we are most grateful for YOU, dear listener.  This episode is filled with intrigue and mystery, folks...aside from covering some of the finest tracks that 1992 had to offer, we discuss food, Uncle Gregg's furniture destruction, and the forgotte...

Let's hear it for the girls!  This week, the Lads salute the Ladies of the classic alternative era - the trailblazers and the legends.    Along the way, we cover Bueno's celebrity crushes, Jepheads and Blinks, and debut our hot new country jam "Gotta Truck, Gotta Dog."  Hey, it's a work in progress.   The ghost of Jim Backus commands you to listen!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at O3L?  Oh...you haven't?!?  Well, in this mini bonus episode, we open up the show vaults and give you a taste of the stuff that you were never meant to hear.  As such, this one definitely earns its "Explicit" rating, folks.  Hide the kiddies!     We look forward to bringing you fresh new episodes of O3L soon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Just Can't Get Enough O3L?  I Feel You, it's a Strangelove that people feel for us.  People Are People, after all.  If you are Somebody who hasn't listened to the Only Three Lads podcast yet, it was just A Question Of Time.  So now you'll have Something To Do.  Welcome aboard...Everything Counts!  We don't want to start any Blasphemous Rumours, because we have a strict Policy Of Truth over here, y...

Iiiiit's alright, cuz you're saved by O3L! Hey gang...This week, the lads travel back to the heady days of 1989 to discuss their Top 5 classic alternative songs from that year. You'd better hurry before Mr. Bueno puts us all into detention!   Incidentally, congratulations to our O3L Scavenger Hunt winner Mike Basso, who is clearly the Slater of the group. And *everyone* knows Slater was the cooles...

In this supersized episode of O3L, we offer our choices for the foundation of any self-respecting alternative music collection. We looked at it this way - if we were going to guide a young person to the music of the O3L era, what would we recommend as the starting point? So what could be better than getting an ACTUAL YOUNG PERSON to listen to our choices and give feedback?!? We rustled up one such...

Back in '82, Bueno could have thrown a basketball over them mountains...   Turn on your heartlight and relive the classic alternative albums of 1982.  After this episode, you'll want to phone home...to tell your friends about O3L!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Because you always remember the first time...this week, the lads discuss their Top 5 Debut Singles from the Golden Age of Alternative.   Only Three Gramps, brought to you by [insert random geriatric product here]. It's a weal wiot, we promise you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1976: A Roar Like You've Never Heard Before!   This week, the Lads capture the Spirit of '76 with some AMAZING songs.  The highly advanced 2-year-old Brett beams his list to the future, Uncle Gregg gets a little "Brett Weird," and Bueno just wants to jump on top of you (y'know, in an "Ambassador of Love" kinda way).  Dyn-o-miiiite! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the lads travel back to share their Top 5 songs from the high school graduation years - 1977, 1988, and 1992.   Graduating at the top of the class at O3L High:   - Brett, "Most Likely to Earn a Fake PhD in Music Nerdery" - Uncle Gregg, "Most Likely to Steal a Pixies Cassette" - Bueno, "Most Likely to Date a Model from a Robert Palmer Video"   I'm glad we became friends this year.  Have...

Hey kids!  O3L Records presents all of your favorite groovy hits on one long playing podcast.  You get 29 Original Episodes by the 3 Original Lads!     This episode, we discuss our Top 5 Various Artist Compilation Albums, and we've come up with (to quote an old K-Tel album) pure gold.  But wait...there's more!     You get these smashes and more: "Be Bueno" (12" Remix) "You'll Come Around, Gregg" "...

Why, thank you for noticing how gritty and topical we've gotten lately. We feel it's our duty to both entertain AND educate. Therefore, we're gonna share part of the screenplay for the very first O3L After School Special:   [Son is sitting on his bed, obviously listening to Episode 28 of O3L, upset that Uncle Gregg didn't pick Gino Vanelli's "Living Inside Myself". His father comes bursting into h...

Do you belieeeve in life after O3L?  We sure don't, because near, far, wherever you are...O3L will go on and on.  In case you haven't caught on by now, this week we're taking the O3L spaceship back to 1998.  And we think we've really outdone ourselves, for what it's worth! We also announce the winner of the "Uncle Gregg Caption Contest."  Dig it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

We celebrate half a year worth of episodes with our Top 5 Non-Album Singles.  You know, those great standalone singles that didn't find a home on an album.  They're like little gifts from the artist to the fan.     You know what else is a gift?  The picture of Uncle Gregg circa 1988 on our Facebook page at facebook.com/onlythreelads. Caption the picture by Saturday, 8/15/20 - best caption will WIN...

Happy Birthday, Bueno!  Let your freak flag fly.   This episode, we celebrate the one word man known as Bueno, and our top one word bands of the O3L era.  One word bands - lazy...or just plain resourceful?  You make the call.  Join Bueno, Brett & Uncle Gregg as the musical archaeologists make some important excavations.  Wooooo-eeeee!  Plus, the Lads have some sage advice for the youngins out ther...

You're gonna have to face it...you're addicted to O3L.  And that's OK, because we're here to give you your weekly fix.  Yeah, we're enablers.  This episode, we hop in the Delorean and set the Flux Capacitor for 1985.  Aside from discussing some of the greatest alternative music ever created, Uncle Gregg gives us a taste of movie cheese, Brett reveals his obvious mastery of a Dutch accent, and Buen...

THE ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER!  In this episode, the lads count down the songs of the past that sound like the future...or something like that.  That's right, we're talking about our top synth pop songs of the O3L era, and it's a fun 'un!   Now, kids, generally we pride ourselves on running a family friendly show, but this is the first podcast in history to garner an 'Explicit' rating for hard hittin...

Ahh, parting is such sweet sorrow.  (Because we're basically on the same level as Shakespeare, we can quote him.)  Sometimes a band or artist's swan song is tragic.  Sometimes it's a real stinker.  Sometimes it's pure magic...and that's what is discussed on this episode of O3L.  Bueno, Brett and Uncle Gregg count down their Top 5 Final Albums of the classic alternative era, and it's a humdinger. ...

So there was this one time when Uncle Gregg was at a pool party with The Cranberries...   Join Brett, Uncle Gregg and Bueno for a ride back to 1995, as they run through their Top 5 alternative albums from that halcyon days of yore.  As Charles Nelson Reilly might have said in 1995, it's a real blank in the blankety blank!     21 Episodes.  Three Jokers.  Thanks for joining us on this journey! Lear...

OK, so are we going address the gorilla in the room?  No, seriously, are we?  In this episode, the lads count down their Top 5 Artists from those heady years of 1974-79, and Bueno pays tribute to his late friend, legendary DJ Jack Armstrong.  It's a fine line between insight and insanity, as we always say over here at O3L headquarters.  Actually, this is the first time we've ever said that, but we...

Oi! Episode 19 of Oi-3-L celebrates those subversive '80s punk records. And fair warning...we get pretty topical in this episode, giving the ol' two finger salute to a number of the things that have been bugging us. Rotary phones. Shampoo commercials. Lily Tomlin. LILY TOMLIN! Yeah, I guess you could say we're really stickin' it to the man. Cuz we're punks and all. Learn more about your ad choices...

Hey Moondoggie, let's hop into the O3L Woody and hit the beach!  Tune in your AM dial* to the sweet sounds of O3L, as Dr. Brett**, Uncle Gregg, and Bueno discuss their Top 5 Summer Songs from the golden age of alternative.  It's a totally tubular ride that covers all of the summer essentials - fun in the sun, classic tunes, Slurpees, and Bob Dole.  Hang five (top five, that is)!   * Oh, if you're...

Dear Mr. Kotter,   Please excuse Juan as he is listening to the Only Three Lads episode on the Top 5 Albums of 1980.   Signed, Epstein's Mother     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heavens to Murgatroyd!  It's a new episode of O3L, even.  Climb aboard the spaceship as Bueno, Brett and Uncle Gregg count down their Top 5 Album Closers - the songs that provide the perfect finish to a great record.  This was a fun one, kids...and we promise that we were 100% sober during the recording of this show, hard as it may be to believe.  Find out for yourself why 4 out of 5 dentists (and...

Brett Vargo chats with one of his favorite bassists of all time, the marvelous Robert Vickers from The Go-Betweens.  Here is the complete interview - Robert shares his Top 5 Bassists and those who influenced him, The Monkees, the Australian punk scene, CBGB's, his favorite basslines, life after The Go-Betweens and more.  This is a special bonus episode that you will not want to miss!   Learn more...