This episode, Damon and Robert dive onto a pile of ten songs...ten EPIC songs. Hey, you try writing this stuff. It requires thought and creativity and stuff. Robert's Songs"Caught Somewhere In Time" Iron Maiden"The Architect" Haken"Great War" Sabaton"The End Complete" Coheed and Cambria"Dark Angel" by VNV NationDamon's Songs"Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen (it is, kinda, the song of our people)"Your Cover's Blown" Belle and Sebastian"I Love America" Alice Cooper"Astronomy" Blue Oyster Cult"Choctaw Bingo" James McMurtry

Wherein Damon and Robert discuss Shadowrun and cyberpunk, briefly, just because they want to. So plug in your deck (really?) and jump into the Matrix and check out 10 new songs. Wait! What's that? Eleven songs? That's right! This episode features six songs from Robert because we always intended to cut one but we never did! So that's eleven songs in this episode. We absorb the cost and pass the savings on to you. This episode your hosts let their angry selves take the wheel, and share some of their favorite angry songs. Songs about getting angry, staying angry and, you know--maybe, eventually becoming less angry. The songs discussed in this episode are: Damon: “You're a Movie” by Alice Cooper "1916" by Motorhead “Trouble Every Day” by The Mothers of Invention “Death Trip” by Bad Livers “Had Enough” by The Who Robert: "Self Bias Resistor” by Fear Factory “Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr” by Trivium “Cross to Bear” by Demon Hunter “Bridgeburner" by Mutoid Man "Face Down" by Killer Be Killed “Blood Eagle” by Periphery

It's our Spooky Season Show!

And we increasingly have no idea how to count. We present 12 - yes, 12 songs - appropriate to the season AND suitably kickass.

Robert's songs:

1. Walk with Me In Hell - Lamb of God

2. Vermillion Part.1 by Slipknot

3. Dragula by Rob Zombie

4. Attack of the Dead Men by Sabaton

5. Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus

BONUS TRACK 6: Black #1 by Type O Negative. Damon's songs:

1. Pain by Alice Cooper

2. Evil by Mercyful Fate

3. Horror Business by The Misfits

4. Long Way Back From Hell by Danzig

5. King's Highway by Joe Henry

BONUS TRACK 6: The Mob Rules by Black Sabbath

Five episodes deep and our co-hosts just can’t stop talking about tunes! Ten more songs from Damon and Robert--ranging from the dulcet and creepy AF tones of Timber Timbre to the rousing and machine-gun-fast riffs of Times of Grace. And did we mention Bob Mould is in the house? Well he is, so come on down! (sorry, I may have been watching too much The Price is Right) The songs discussed in this episode are: Damon: “After We Shot The Grizzly” by The Handsome Family "Demon Host" by Timber Timbre “Nashville Radio” by The Jon Langford “Our Song” by Joe Henry “How You Gonna See Me Now” by Alice Cooper Robert: “The Leaving Song, Pt. 2” by AFI “Underneath Days” by Bob Mould “Eternal Blue” by Spiritbox “Strength in Numbers" by Times of Grace “The Sin and The Sentence” by Trivium

Episode four sees Robert and Damon tackle 10 new songs and stumble upon one of the ancient esoteric incantations of power: “Wow, that’s a lotta ‘Loaf!”

Join the guys for a rollicking discussion of tunes ranging from Alice in Chains to Billy Joel (or Mr. William Joel, if—like me—you can only hear his name rendered in that fake Ed Sullivan voice from the “Tell Her About It” video.) Damon’s love of musicals, despite not knowing anything about musicals, is on full display. And the guys have a thoughtful discussion (they're thoughtful guys) about how the music industry seems to not be a healthy place for a lot of very talented folks.

The songs discussed are:

Damon:

“They Don’t Know” by Tracey Ullman

“What Do You Want from Life” by The Tubes

“You Took The Words Right Out of May Mouth” by Meatloaf

“Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” by Billy Joel

“King of the Silver Screen” by Alice Cooper

Robert:

“Secret World (Live)” by Peter Gabriel

“Would?” by Alice in Chains

“Badlands” by Metal Church

“Mekong" by The Refreshments

“No Mercy” by PVRIS

Executive Producer: Travis

Contact Damon and Robert at damonandrobertsfivesongs@gmail.com

In their third episode our intrepid hosts endeavor to solve the question that has perplexed man since the dawn of time:

Jazz?

Or Djent?

Not surprisingly this one’s coming down as a split decision.

The boys get their hands dirty with 10 new songs!

Here are three things they talk about and one thing they definitely don’t:

Can you/should you separate the art from the artist?

Were all the members of the Partridge Family hooked on drugs?

Why do bad things happen to good people (i.e. Damon)?

If you don’t know Queensryche, did you even 80’s, bro?

The songs discussed are:

Damon:

“Paint a Vulgar Picture” by The Smiths

“Sam Stone” by John Prine

“Gaucho” by Steely Dan

“Garden Party” by Rick(y) Nelson

“I’m the One” by Danzig

Robert:

“Reverie/Harlequin Forest” by Opeth

“Suite Sister Mary,” by Queensryche

“Let Go” by Frou Frou

“Reptile" by Periphery

“The Royal We” by Silversun Pickups

Executive Producer: Travis

Contact Damon and Robert at damonandrobertsfivesongs@gmail.com

In our post-inaugural episode, 10 new songs are discussed.

A largely inaccurate summary of events follows:

Robert belittles the Scottish people (but Damon still likes you and your filthy lyrics).

Damon demonstrates a shocking lack of grunge music knowledge (did you even 90’s, bro?)

Robert listens to country music and teaches Damon that North Dakota and South Dakota are two separate places.

Damon uses the words ‘menstruation’ and ‘cunnilingus’ in a sentence (proving this is the worst spelling bee ever!)

No babies (or drummers) were harmed in the making of this episode.

This songs discussed are:

Damon:

“Dress “Up in You” by Belle and Sebastian

“Furnace Room Lullaby” by Neko Case

“True Dreams of Wichita” by Mike Doughty

“South Dakota” James McMurtry

“Dead Babies” by Alice Cooper

Robert:

“The Day Seattle Died” by Cold

“Arise,” by Flyleaf

“The Search” by The NF

“Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)" by Type O Negative

“Lethean,” by Katatonia

Damon and Robert have been friends for a long time but when it comes to music there are . . . differences.
Each episode Damon and Robert will each pick five songs they can't live without, listen and respond to each other's picks, and hear a bit about why that song looms large for the other.
Buckle-up for a rollicking, bare-knuckled, down-to-earth and totally reasonable discussion about songs, music and the way they work their ways into our lives.