The Skinny with Mike and Adam

This is our last 'regular' episode of The Skinny for 2024 before our year-end celebration in December and we're taking the time to reflect on another year in our lives. Lots of ups and downs, disappointments and triumphs were sprinkled throughout and Adam and Mike shared with one another and with our audience what the year-to-date was like for them.  Additionally, we go over the tentative Skinny D...

Surprisingly, we’ve never done this before, but in this episode we - at long last - share our Top 10 Favorite EPs!  After you listen to the episode, be sure to save the Spotify Playlist of all of the songs that we shared! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29OfnBUu8Vv5dcQ6pKTJb6?si=ow531zH1RwaRT1aA9uvQKg Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like nothing,nowhere, Jerry C...

We catch up with one another talking about birthdays, Fort Worth, union strikes, Super Bowl XLI, and more. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Destroy Rebuild Unitl God Shows, Rain City Drive, Balance and Composure, Fever 333, Town of Lake, Fixation, and nothing,nowhere. #DestroyRebuildUntilGodShows #RainCityDrive #BalanceAndComposure #Fever333 #TownOfLake #Fixat...

On this episode, we reflect back on the long and influential career of Craig Owens and his time with Chiodos and the many other projects that he would go on to helm. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Boston Manor, House of Protection, The Amity Affliction, and Rain City Drive #Chiodos #DestroyRebuildUntilGodShows #CinematicSunrise #IslesAndGlaciers #CraigOwens...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got five great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for the...

To celebrate 20 years since My Chemical Romance hit the mainstream with their masterpiece album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, Adam and Mike listen to the album in full and talk about this album’s impact on their lives and on their music tastes. As we await whatever comes next from this band going into the future, we reflect on their place in the rising boom on the emo scene back in the 00s and...

Adam and Mike attempt to create the perfect Bring Me The Horizon mixtape to share with someone who is unfamiliar with the band. We go through all of their eras from Count Your Blessings to NexGen. Which songs made the cut?! Check out the Spotify Playlist here and let us know what you think! - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cr9vKTrZqZ5ihSgvsF0H8?si=a569ca8e94924362 Also on the episode, we share...

Mike and Adam are catching up with one another, having a casual chat between friends and also catching up with what they’ve been listening to over this slow music release month. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like The Ataris, Vendetta Red, Balance & Composure, and MisterWives _______________________________________ Find us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord....

We’ve reached the halfway point of 2024, so Adam and Mike go through the mid-year review for The Skinny! We check it with the album draft picks and the bets and see if there have been any exciting new developments so far. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Lindsey Stirling, The Story So Far, nothing,nowhere., and Zach Bryan ______________________________________...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got five great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for the...

The long awaited and long delayed next chapter in BMTH’s POST HUMAN saga was surprisingly released recently! And after all that time, was it worth the wait?! After listening to it for a week straight, listen along to the album with us as we share our thoughts on Bring Me The Horizon’s POST HUMAN: Nex GEn in this track-by-track review! Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artis...

This week, we’re joined by longtime friend of the show and co-host of The Dorkiest Podcast, Daniel! He’s been partly responsible for a lot of the great content and recommendations that have come our way over the past several years, and this time, he’s here to give us and the audience a thorough education on all things SeeYouSpaceCowboy - one of his current favorite bands.  Admittedly, both Mike an...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got five great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for the...

Thanks to the suggestion of one of our listeners on Discord, today we're doing a retrospective of one of Mike's favorite bands, New Jersey darling's Thursday. They were one of the pioneers of the second wave of emo during the 2000s and have since influenced a ton of bands that we all have come to love, including My Chemical Romance. Join us as we go through each of their albums from 19...

Sum 41 is a band that we all have known and have been around for more than 24 years now! With the release of their final album, Heaven :x: Hell, we thought it was a good time to take a look back at this often overlooked band and reminisce on the albums that surprised for their meaningfulness and complexity as well as the albums that once let them sit at the top of the world! Please enjoy while we...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got five great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for the...

After a brief hiatus, we’re back! Thank you for continuing to stick around and show your support while Mike needed some time off to care for his wife.  On this week’s episode, we’re trying out a new segment we’re calling “Is This Good?!” in which Mike and Adam submit a song that they love, despite its flaws, and debate the song’s merits before finally determining whether or not the song is “good”....

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Adam and Mike share the musicians and artists who were their first childhood crushes ♥ We’ve also got fun Super Bowl LVIII predictions recorded before the Big Game happened this past Sunday, so it’ll be fun to find out if Mahomes really did rise from the grave in the 3rd quarter after being sacked for the fifth time during the game! Also discussed, thoughts on new...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got four great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for these m...

Inspired by some of our listeners over on our Discord, Adam and Mike listen and react to music and music videos from the formative years of their youth! We throw two picks from our own childhoods as well and at the end, we determine - all in good fun, of course - if your childhood holds up today! Thanks so much to friends of the show, Dave, Daniel, and Thomas, submitting their songs and pictures o...

It's that time once again for the greatest sporting event of the year...the Skinny Draft Special for the 2024 season! Just like we did last year, we are 'drafting' bands to release new music this calendar year to come out on top with the highest score! And of course, just like the last few years, we're opening up the draft to our listeners as well! So, find out how you can win a pr...

With 2023  FINALLY behind us - for realsies this time - we release the second part of our Best Songs list! This week, we share the best of the best with our tracks 6 to 1! Let us know what you thought of our lists over on our social media pages linked below and tell us what some of YOUR favorite songs of the year are as well. #Boygenius #TheGaslightAnthem #MegMyers #OliviaRodrigo #PostMalone #Slee...

With the new year upon us and 2023 now a distant memory, Adam and Mike share the songs that they will remember going forward as the year's BEST! This week, we hear their Top 12 Best Songs of 2023 (part 1: songs 12 - 7). Check out the Spotify playlist curated by our listeners over on Discord of some of THEIR favorite songs of this past year as well: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uLBTciuaZj...

It's our final episode of the year, so what better way to celebrate than to share our Best Albums of 2023! These are the albums we listened to that will stay with us beyond this calendar year. They are the ones that surpassed our expectations and the ones that we will HIGHLY recommend to anyone looking to listen to some great music! Thank you for celebrating this year in music with us for the...

In our part two of our three-part end of the year music celebration, we talk about the albums that let us down, the albums that we hated, and the albums that failed to meet our (sometimes unreasonable) expectations - it's our Most Disappointing and Worst Albums of 2023! Did you listen to any albums this year that disappointed you or just flat out hated? ⁠Please feel free to share your thoughts...