The Album Concept Hour

Netflix : We're going to make a tasteless dramatization of a serial killer with no regard to the surviving family members of the victims. Macabre : Hold my beer. Links: Nate's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Grymgar OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/2stA2P7pTC Flyover State Hotline - 1 608 HIT-NERD (608-448-6373) https://www.youtube.com/flyoverstatepark EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/F...

Mars: Superbug ravages the population. People goin nuts out there. Venus: One crew flies into it and explodes. Other lands on and proceeds to self-immolate. People goin nuts out there. Meanwhile, on Earth: Spirit of fossil fuel enacts revenge on the world via super storm that turns into super MEGA storm. People goin nuts out there, witchcraft. Spirit of fossil fuel becomes literal dragon, proceeds...

So I didn't mean to release an episode largely about the plight of soldiers on 9/11... but today we have an album that is about just that! Well, specifically, HORSE soldiers... We're talking about Corb Lund's love letter to the profession, Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! He's an Alberta boy that has a Texas spirit, coming from a line of country folk and horse wranglers. And we have a...

Today we have a very special treat for you guys. We had the opportunity to talk to CB Stockfleth, the director of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, the most highly anticipated music documentary by any indie music lover of the 90s and on. He shares with us the origin story of the documentary--from Robert Schneider believing in him to tell their story, to being brought in to the inner circle of the...

Laura Jane Grace originally pitched the concept for Transgender Dysphoria Blues as a fictional account of the experiences of a transgendered prostitute dealing with the various aspects of addiction and gender dysphoria. However, this was more than just a fictional tale to help her write, it was a way for her to start coming out as a trans person. What started as allegory became fact as she spent a...

Excerpts from a comprehensive guide to your afterlife : "Stay aware of your surroundings at all times... you will not feel the urge to sleep and you will never dream." ( Your Surroundings, fig. 2 ) "Do not revel in regret. Attempt to find your previous place of residence" ( Recognizing Your Past, fig. 3 ) "Do not hold onto memories of life. They will be distorted and inacc...

I know this album isn't incredibly popular, but it IS an amazing concept album. But I don't need to convince you because it's already got the seal of approval from the likes of Beastie Boys, De La Soul, and Ice Cube, to name a few. This is a band that created one of the greatest sunshine pop hits of the time, "Happy Together", and had the gall to just keep doing what they wan...

Let all go back to the year 2001. It's early September, and you're in that awkward stage of your life when you don't know who you are or what you like. Soon something happens that will change everything. From some far away land, something arrives in the United States that will rock it's very foundation... with an impact that we still feel a generation later... That's right. I&#...

In 1973, the Beach Boys went to Holland to write a new album... These are their stories... ep links: Cartoon Show Episode #3: https://youtu.be/8MlyeErBbDA Beach Boys Lost/Unreleased Tracks playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUcZD_8LFHAulNI2Kt0fFUd5v4MBEOZT7 MST3K - Mr B. Natural: https://youtu.be/cAKentKiGOY OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/2stA2P7pTC Flyover State Hotline - 1 608 HIT-NER...

This one is for Mel. I think her and Amy Winehouse would have been friends if they had ever met. Both legends gone too soon. ep links: Mel's episode about BTS: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/albumconcepthour/episodes/BTS---Love-Yourself-HER-w-Mel-LeBaron-emigs7 Ashley Coffin's HORROR podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2RVks2bpnf5Ogb9jepPMWP?si=2a7543e543674c30 Marvel Cinematic...

We've been shilling for Marvel in the shadows for FAR TOO LONG!!! Today, we shill directly to you on our first (and last?) Marvel themed episode. We're covering our top 10 songs from the first 2 movies in preparation for seeing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. We picked a mix of songs we love and songs that fit to the scenes they are in thematically, counting down to the MOST connected song...

"Ultimately, their success was sealed by Byrne's unwavering vision of a bleak world that transcended normal human emotion, and above all by the brilliant way that seemingly uncompromising vision for a rock band was realized by his collaborators--who by the second and third albums, More Songs About Buildings and Food and Fear of Music , included Brian Eno as producer and fifth band member...

You've heard us talk about Transformers the Movie, but now it's time to talk about the REAL transformer, LOU REED!!! This is another one of those albums packed with hits and solidified Reed as the man he's remembered as. ep links: Herbie Flowers, bass player for "Walk on the Wild Side" discussing why he recorded two basses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBXUP5GqYJs The Album Concept Hour Side B...

We have another banger HOT off the presses. It's the newest album by British rap royalty, Lil Simz, NO THANK YOU... But today, we can't say no thank you because we are doing the Season 19 Hot Ones Sauces again while listening to this 10 track album. How will we fare in the second attempt? No Thank You Short Film: https://youtu.be/GqwOCq0MXPU MUSIC MOVIES TONIGHT episode 4 - Sergeant Pepper's Lonel...

Today we take part in an age old practice, of which the internet is built on. Today we went through pain for internet points. Join us in this experimental episode where we listen to 10 tracks of an album and eat 10 wings using the HOT ONES season 19 package of hot sauces. There will be laughter. There will be tears. There will be long trips to the toilet... links: The Skolars/Telegraph - 10 Songs...

Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Sadat X, DJ Shadow, Sean Lennon, Mike D, El-P... the list goes on... We have another absolutely STACKED rap album from that really conceptual period between 1999 and 2001 that rap experienced before 9/11 blew everything up (I have no proof that 9/11 had anything to do with it, but I did hear that rap could melt steel beams). Spawned from an...

We've had him on Side B a few times to discuss our shared frustration with Sufjan Stevens, but now he's finally joining us on Side A for an album that he loves and that we now all love. It's a really well executed concept with well executed production. AND it's only the beginning of a rap trilogy. Links: Masta Ace - "Disposable Arts" (Official Album Documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP...

Are you a fan of concept albums? Do you prefer to listen to records start to finish? We have broken down everything from Pink Floyd to Janelle Monae to the Digimon: the Movie Soundtrack and we are just getting started. Join us as we break down some of music's most interesting albums every Monday and try to discover the intended meaning behind them (or lack thereof)... Go to our discord at discord....

It's time to break out your eyeliner, squeeze into some skinny jeans, and dye your hair black, because this week we are diving into an emo masterpiece. In 2005, emo music was exploding into the airwaves and the bands were getting more and more creative with the genre. Sure, it all had a similarly macabre subject matter, but the stories they told were steeped in tragedy and romance, and as an emoti...

It's finally time... to talk about the beginning... of heavy metal. We've covered hair metal, glam metal, stoner/doom metal, metal-core, and "nu" metal, but... where did it all come from? The answer to this question is different depending on who you ask, but the first time it broke into the mainstream was undoubtedly with Black Sabbath. Their sped up blues, distortion, and horror imagery, mixed wi...

Weird Al is on his UNFORTUNATE Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour and we thought it would be a good time to talk about the prince of spoof himself, Weird Al Yankovic, and one of his finest works, 1999's "Running with Scissors". From the infamously prophetic song/music video for "The Saga Begins," accurately describing the plot of Star Wars: Episode I (from just the...

101 Bands. 50 minutes of punk. 30 seconds a song. All on 1 Compact Disc.  Less than Jake, Chixdiggit, Bad Religion, Blink 182, The Ataris, GWAR, Greenday, Circle Jerks, The Queers, The Muffs, Black Flag, NOFX... to name a few... What else is there to say? Episode Links: Reel Good Movies on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0aBzvW8cc1gs1VzHseaLfO?si=f215d5b61f16431c Fat Mike interview wit...

Tyler, the Creator is one of the most important rap/R&B artists of recent history. He was raised in the age of high speed internet and memes and carved out his own niche in rap and skate culture, along with his fellow cohorts in Odd Future. They helped usher in a new era of Adult Swim, with their antics on Loiter Squad, and before they were even out of their teens, Tyler, the Creator, Earl Swe...

I know we've technically already covered this album (in it's "Jerusalem" incarnation), but when Michael Makela, lead singer of Bongzilla, asked if we could cover the original unbroken cut, known as Dopesmoker, who was I to stand in his way? Some listeners might not know this, but Bongzilla is from the same city as Flyover State Park, and is one of the great doom/stoner metal groups around today. J...

Get out your cereal bowls and slide up to the living room television without waking up your parents. After all, it's Saturday morning, they've been working all week, and you KNOW some stuff is about to go down on the Power Rangers. Will they go head to head with Rita and Goldar? Or will they have to deal with Lord Zedd, the skinless lord of evil missing the top part of his skull? Will they morph i...