The Music Challenge Podcast

Hardened fans of The Music Challenge Podcast know that co-host Kevin joined us in the second season and never had a chance to give us his formative four. Well now's his chance. He is presentinf to you Miles Davis - Bitches Brew and Phish - Lawn Boy.

The classic album Meddle by Pink Floyd is the subject on the 50th anniversary of its release in 1971.

The 27 Club is our subject on The Music Challenge Podcast. The 27 Club is a group of incredible musicians who died at the tender age of 27 years old. Listen as we celebrate their lives through music and discussion.

Neil Young Retrospective Neil Young is the subject of this retrospective look at his career and character through the prism of four of his great albums: Harvest, Tonight's the Night, Live Rust, and Mirror Ball. Jump down the musical rabbit hole with us as we explore this great instrumentalist and singer. Come for the Music, but stay for the conversation!

Led Zepplin IV is formative album the hosts will be discussing this week.

The cast check out the best albums of 2020 featuring: Oh Sees, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and Woods!

Featuring: Motörhead, Can, The Doors, and Steely Dan. Listen as we review great albums by these groups released in our birth years.

Join our panel this week as we investigate modern parallels this week as we look at 4 modern bands and try and decipher their origins. Come for the Music, Stay for the Conversation. Featured: Earthless, Wand, Billy Strings, and Rose City Band.

Listen to our hosts critique live albums from Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and Frank Zappa.

Thanks for checking out the “The Music Challenge Podcast”: where we propose a musical question with a different answer for everyone. In Season 2, we are asking for you Musical Ultimates like the best songs that fit a certain situation, the most songs of a category, or your favorite songs for a situation. We'll be talking about our Musical Ultimates and we invite you to join us on "The Music Challenge Podcast." Go to our facebook page and like it to follow along with our questions. And email them to us at musicchallengepod@gmail.com.

Thanks for checking out the “The Music Challenge Podcast”: where we propose a musical question with a different answer for everyone. In Season 2, we are asking for you Musical Ultimates like the best songs that fit a certain situation, the most songs of a category, or your favorite songs for a situation. We'll be talking about our Musical Ultimates and we invite you to join us on "The Music Challenge Podcast." Go to our facebook page and like it to follow along with our questions. And email them to us at musicchallengepod@gmail.com.

Thanks for checking out the “The Music Challenge Podcast”: where we propose a musical question with a different answer for everyone. In Season 2, we are asking for you Musical Ultimates like the best songs that fit a certain situation, the most songs of a category, or your favorite songs for a situation. We'll be talking about our Musical Ultimates and we invite you to join us on "The Music Challenge Podcast." Go to our facebook page and like it to follow along with our questions. And email them to us at musicchallengepod@gmail.com.

We present our Guilty Pleasures in this fun episode featuring the tunes that we listen to when no one else is around.

We explore Radiohead, The Cure, Ween, and Built to Spill as we go over our hosts musical blindspots. Bands they should know, but missed for whatever reason. Join us for a great musical discussion and a lot of fun. Come for the music, stay for the stories!

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish is the topic along with some announcements on The Music Challenge Podcast with all 3 of your hosts on this between season episode. As always, come for the music, but stay for the stories.

Pink Floyd - The Wall is listener John Roccia's top formative album. This album is a master piece and speaks to a generation of frustrated, marginalized youth. John speaks eloquently about what The Wall meant to him then and now! Special Guest: John Roccia.

Beastie Boys Bonanza this week on The Music Challenge Podcast. The hosts look at 3 albums Licensed to Ill, Pauls Boutique and Ill Communication. Join us for some great BBoyz talk and great music. Come for the music, stay for the stories!

Protest Songs and Social Injustice are the topics on a bonus episode. Please join us for a socially responsible and difficult discussion. Featured songs include Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye and Peter Tosh!

The Clash - Sandinista! is this weeks featured formative album with Sublime - 40oz to Freedom heading up our out of the box segment. Come for the music, stay for the stories!

Def Leppard's Pyro Mania and Motley Crüe's Shout at the Devil are the album topics on this episode of The Music Challenge Podcast. Come for the Music, stay for the conversation!

LISTENERS CHOICE: Fugazi's seminal album 13 Songs is featured as the crew travels back and re-lives the goold old years. Come to hear some of the finest straight edge punk out there anywhere.

Ozzy Osbourne is the featured artist this week as we will be looking at Sabbath's Master of Reality and Ozzy's first solo album Blizzard of Ozz. Along the way hear personal stories from our panel of dopes as we discuss and feature Ozzy's career.

This season on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about our Formative Four! The four albums that sent us all on our personal musical journeys. And, we want you to submit your Formative Four. The four albums that were the seeds of your musical upbringings. It's a difficult question. We know! But, we want to hear what our fans listened to as well. Submit your four to musicchallengepod@gmail.com. We will be featuring listener albums- so this is an excellent chance for your special album to be featured. We'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking music grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now!

This season on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about our Formative Four! The four albums that sent us all on our personal musical journeys. And, we want you to submit your Formative Four. The four albums that were the seeds of your musical upbringings. It's a difficult question. We know! But, we want to hear what our fans listened to as well. Submit your four to musicchallengepod@gmail.com. We will be featuring listener albums- so this is an excellent chance for your special album to be featured. We'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking music grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now!

This season on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about our Formative Four! The four albums that sent us all on our personal musical journeys. And, we want you to submit your Formative Four. The four albums that were the seeds of your musical upbringings. It's a difficult question. We know! But, we want to hear what our fans listened to as well. Submit your four to musicchallengepod@gmail.com. We will be featuring listener albums- so this is an excellent chance for your special album to be featured. We'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking music grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now!

Whoops!! We had a fully hosted episode recorded only to realize that it really was all screwed up because of the getting used to zooming (podcasting on zoom). We are proud to be able to continually bring you distractions, episodes, and entertainment at a time when people may actually need it the most. The zoom is something to get used to recording off of after only now getting a rhythm together intiallly. I know we can rely on your patience. Basically, Jed was on the intial recording- but could not make the re-record, so Robb and I (friends of 20 years) just shoot the shit about music and spray to all fields with a lot of awesome music peppered in. Lots of stories, some smoking music, and great conversation. Setlist (with fair use in tact) They Never Got You - Spoon NY Money - White Denim Bad Decisions - Strokes Born Under Punches - Phish Moving out - Aerosmith How Many Times - Led Zepplin Rock and Roll - Led Zepplin Free man in Paris - Joni Fairies with Boots - Black Sabbath Check it out, and we look forward to the return of Jed - whose free time got annihalated with at-home kids during stay-at-home orders. We'll definitely hear from Jed next week.

This week we are just checking in with one another as we are not currently recording. But, we put in a call to Jed and Robb via Zoom and to see how we've been distracting ourselves. Check out how to find streaming shows online with Jed. And, Robb and I investigate an enduring 90s genre: shoegazing. Come check us out on The Music Challenge Podcast!

This week on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about we'll be discussing David Byrne and the Talking Heads Remain in Light album. Listen in as the boys discuss not only the album, but what they are listening to on a weekly basis in a new segment. Also, conversations about Neil Young, Tame Impala, and other bands that have very little in common while we try and make jokes. It's just a hearty music conversation among friends. So, join in! Again, we'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking musical grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now! Email us at: musicchallengepod@gmail.com.

This season on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about our Formative Four! The four albums that sent us all on our personal musical journeys. And, we want you to submit your Formative Four. The four albums that were the seeds of your musical upbringings. It's a difficult question. We know! But, we want to hear what our fans listened to as well. Submit your four to musicchallengepod@gmail.com. We will be featuring listener albums- so this is an excellent chance for your special album to be featured. We'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking music grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now!

This season on THE MUSIC CHALLENGE PODCAST we'll be talking about our Formative Four! The four albums that sent us all on our personal musical journeys. And, we want you to submit your Formative Four. The four albums that were the seeds of your musical upbringings. It's a difficult question. We know! But, we want to hear what our fans listened to as well. Submit your four to musicchallengepod@gmail.com. We will be featuring listener albums- so this is an excellent chance for your special album to be featured. We'll be featuring listener selections along the way and we just may feature your groundbreaking music grails, the albums that started it all for you and what you're listening to now. Sell us on the album you want to hear us feature right now!

Thanks for checking out the “The Music Challenge Podcast”: where we propose a musical question with a different answer for everyone. In this first season, we are asking for Your Formative Four, the most influential albums from your past. Not just your past, but your way-back past like high school. What were the seeds that sprouted into your current musical tastes. We'll be talking about our formative albums and we invite you to join us on "The Music Challenge Podcast." Please, send us your own Formative Four through our contact page and we'll share them on a cast soon.