Pod Like a Hole

Happy Halloween to our monsters and maniacs.  Your ghosts with the mosts are here to help you ring in the scariest of all HELL-odays.  As you scrape the guts out of pumpkins and put your costumes on, please listen to our Top 5 lists of spookiest musicians, movies, and others.  It will really get you in the SPIRIT od the season.  AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA. Our Links: Facebook -  https://www.facebook.c...

In this B-Side episode, the boys take a look at David Bowie popping in for a spot of tea with TV on the Radio and Arcade Fire. This inspires us to each go through our top 5 list of favorite guest appearances. Next episode we jump into David Bowie's penultimate studio album, The Next Day.  Links: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/podlikeahole/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pod_like_a_...

"Now I've been told, that you've been bold, with Eric , Marc and Steve!" Dear listeners, we left you on a cliffhanger last week.  Steven barely broke Marc out of the mental hospital, Marc barely got his mind back, the team discussed the year of 1972 and did a track by track analysis of Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust". Well they are back to continue the con...

This week on Pod Like a Hole: A Space Poddity, the band is back together and diving deep into the all-time classic The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. In addition to giving the album the full track by track treatment, we discuss current events of 2019 and past events of 1972.  Eric gets to dig his mandibles into an album with an actual storyline, Steve thinks he might kn...

On this episode of Pod Like A Hole - A Space Poddity, your hosts Steve and Eric do a 300,000 foot view overview of the Glam Rock movement. This is a casual discussion of their perceptions and opinions on the following records: T. Rex's Electric Warrior, Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure, Slade's SLAYED?, The New York Dolls self titled, and Sweet's Desolation Boulevard. Marc is on time...

You know.  When we started this podcast, your cohosts Marc, Eric and Steve, set out with a simple purpose.  To connect to people through their love of music via a jovial conversation, laying out the spoils of our various takes on the deep dive in discographies. They've been holding hands and traversing through the history of music in this season 2:  David Bowie. All was going well. Best. Laid....

As is our tradition, we are interjecting another bonus B-Side episode in-between our Bowie analysis.  As our next Bowie album is "Tin Machine" , we have each made a top 5 list with our favorite Side Projects.  Enjoy as we take you a trip through the times our favorite artists dipped there toes in labors of love.  Speaking of which, enjoy Steven and Marc's brand new side project called...

This week we bring you the thrilling conclusion to our discussion on David Bowie's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). Steven provides some Grade-A vocalizations of the guitar work, Eric waxes poetic into the lyrical meanings found in the line of "We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town..BEEP BEEP,"and Marc struggles to find a way to work in a Disneyland reference in his song...

  In this episode, your intrepid hosts look under the bed and open the coat closets to find David Bowie's Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). This 1980 album captured the quintessential Bowie sound and style that (spoiler alert) your hosts swooned over for an episode so long we had to split it into two parts. In this first chapter, we talk about the year 1980 and all goings on during that time...

In preparation for our next episode where we discuss David Bowie's Scary Monsters, the trio head into the nearby haunted house to talk about their top 5 monsters. Yes, it's not yet Halloween, but this episode will be sure to give you thrills and chills. If you're playing the Pod Like a Hole: Home Edition game, let us know what your Top 5 Monsters list looks like on the usual social pla...

In this B-Side episode, we quickly look at David Bowie's 1993 soundtrack album, The Buddha of Suburbia. The soundtrack was considered a lost release for many years after it was deleted, despite Bowie claiming it was his favorite album. Do the hosts agree?  LINKS: Buddha of Suburbia (Official Video) -  https://youtu.be/xHPIAFaKd1I Buddha of Suburbia (BBC2 Trailer) -  https://youtu.be/sdLgU8pOl5...

In this episode we learn that David loved the 90s almost as much as he loved Iman. In this episode of Space Poddity - Pod Like a Hole Phase 2, the audio chrononauts travel to 1993 and dissect an artifact very much of it's time: Black Tie White Noise. Marvel at the plastic production. Be amazed at the on the nose commentary. Envy the giant shoulder pads. And be thankful it's not as bad as N...

Before we put on our black ties and enjoy the white noise of the Wedding, your friends at Pod Like A Hole set some time aside to discuss the early 90s Bowie single Real Cool World. We also dive into some talk about the absurd 1992 film Cool World, Brad Pitt, live action animated films, and for some reason - Adventure Games. #monkeyisland.  Come back next week for the best thing to come out of Davi...

Your Bowie Boys have returned to review the oft misunderstood mishmash of the 1974 dystopia known as Diamond Dogs.  Marc, Eric  and Steve dive deep into the dirt and grime of Hunger City 1984.  We give you a track-by-track analysis of the album, a little peek into David's life and recording process at the time, and pop culture in 1974.  In addition, we go over some scraps and B-Sides from this...

Bonus Episode:  Top 5 Dystopias! As your hosts prepare their minds for the next Bowie experiment:  Diamond Dogs, they present to you a bonus episode.  Over the next 45 minutes your co-hosts (Marc, Eric, Steve) give you another batch of lists!  Top 5 Dystopias!  Enjoy and play along at home by posting your Top 5 dystopian stories to our various social network feeds.   https://www.patreon.com/podlik...

In the latest installment of Pod Like a Hole, the gang goes Station To Station. They cover the crazy recording sessions that David and the band lived through, the nutzo influences our hero was living through, and the bonkers full length feature film The Man Who Fell To Earth lived through. All in the year 1976. This is all preamble to our track by track analysis of the 6 excellent songs found on S...

In this supplemental episode of Pod Like A Hole, your hosts spend an hour ranking their top 5 frontpeople in the round robin fasion. The criteria is what you make of it - be it based off performance, stage craft, attitude, etc. Please enjoy and join us back here in 7 days for our discussion of Station to Station.

If you've ever wondered how it would be possible to have three guys talk for nearly 3 hours about David Bowie's self-admittedly worst album, then wonder no more. Our trusty Diamond Dice sends us to David Bowie's 17th studio album, Never Let Me Down, where we traverse through what's considered David Bowie's career nadir.  Eric, Marc, and Steve go track by track and compare it to...

Pod Like A Hole presents:  A Space Oddity   02:  "Space Oddity" Marc, Eric and Steve, your hosts, rolled the Diamond Dice.  Fate chose the next album and that choice sent us into a tin can, where we have been ever since...sending a track-by-track analysis of the David Bowie album "Space Oddity" back to ground control.  Does anyone hear our transmission? Enjoy this episode as we dis...

Pod Like a Hole Phase 2:  A Space Poddity "Blackstar" After sending Pod Like a Hole into the black hole at the end of Season 1, your boys have returned as a singularity.  An enlightened entity of hope, wit and outrageous flash.... Marc, Steve and Eric have returned to host Season 2:  A Space Poddity.   For each of these episodes we will randomly (thanks to our "Diamond Dice") revie...

Well, it's done for now. After trekking through all Nine Inch Nails albums, singles, scores, and side projects, the hosts finally reach the end. We rank the albums and share our "Top 9" Nine Inch Nails Songs (It's actually 10, having O be the true #1, but we're sooo clever). As this season (series?) comes to its conclusion, we also look ahead to what's next.    

In this episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Rob Sheridan, former art director of Nine Inch Nails and creator of the new comic book, High Level. Rob shares his insights and experiences working in the comic industry, his time with Trent Reznor, and the state of the world in the era of social media. Check out High Level at https://www.dccomics.com/comics/high-level-2019/high-level-1 Check o...

  In this BONUS episode, Eric talks with Nick Rusis, the very lucky fan to win the very lucky cereal box  "Co-host a Bonus Episode" giveaway. Nick discusses becoming an Australian NIN-fan and the two give "The Fragile: Deviations" a deep dive.  Or a much deeper one than your core hosts did a year ago.   It's a robust discussion about one of the greatest bonus albums of all time...

In this episode, your hosts explore the second EP in Nine Inch Nails’ planned trilogy, Add Violence. We take a look at the thematic elements and how any of this could fit into a re-interpretation of The Matrix films. Of course, Eric pours over the lyrics as if they were scrolls from the Ancient Ones, Steve does a dance for us in studio, and Marc gets dust in his eyes at one point. We even manage t...

The team (Marc, Steve and Eric) delve into the final (well most recent) NIN album and really give it their all.  The drawings are bleeding down the cave walls, but we all somehow somehow make sense of them.  The world is in a state of disrepair and we deserve every terrible thing we do to ourselves.  Now let’s listen to 6 jaunty tunes about it!  Your boys break it all down, discuss it’s connection...